I am really disappointed to announce that the International @healtheconomics Association has moved the 2025 Congress from Calgary to Bali. The reason: slow processing of visas into Canada. So #Calgary and @ucalgary just lost a 1500 person conference. You can see IHEA's concern. Last year the congress was in Cape Town. How long will it take to get a visa to attend a conference in Canada if you are in South Africa? Here's the current average time: 329 days.

Why the sudden moratorium on renewable energy applications in AB? One interpretation is the AUC decision highlighted by Nigel Bankes.

The AUC recently granted permission for a solar farm which potentially reduced the value of subsurface rights. ...

ablawg.ca/2023/08/03/con… PrairieSky was concerned that its opportunity to profit from oil and gas rights would be harmed by the building of a solar farm on land for which it owned subsurface rights.

#COVID19AB is not going well. I have been asked repeatedly to comment on the effect of temporary measures on the economy. People seem to be worried about this question: (1) How do we balance economic impact against excess deaths? which I think is a mistake.@AntibioticDoc The right question is (2) when is the right time to take action to minimize deaths and morbidity *and* to protect the economy? The economy, after all, is just there for people, not people for the economy. What we have seen in other places is that once COVID