Ah, spring: the birds are singing, the flowers blooming, and liberty is on everyone’s mind!

Come on down to the Pauper’s Pub, next Thursday, May 30th for another exciting night of liberty and economics!

Our featured speaker will be the inimitable Dr. Pierre Desrochers (professor of geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and author of the excellent book, “The Locavore’s Dilemma“), who will be talking about Rachel Carson, the late founder of the modern environmentalist movement.

We’re on the second floor, at 7 pm, as usual.

Pauper’s Pub
539 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON
M5S 1Y6

Right next to Bathurst station.

See you there!

Join the Facebook event!

https://www.facebook.com/events/390823844361302/

Ash Navabi is a student at Ryerson University. Send him mail.

Pauper’s Pub

The next Toronto meet is being held at Paupers Pub on April 23rd! That’s three Tuesdays from today.

Come join fellow travelers on the road to liberty for a night of interesting conversations, presentations, and some very light inebriation!

Same location as usual:

Pauper’s Pub
539 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y6

Right next to Bathurst station.

Second Floor

Books will be on sale.

Join the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/280006455466349/

Ash Navabi is a student at Ryerson University. Send him mail.

Pauper’s Pub

The next Toronto meet is being held at Paupers Pub, on Tuesday March 5th, starting at 7! Meet other fellow travellers in the Austrian tradition. This week features a special guest: Morgan Poliquin, President and CEO of Almaden Minerals, and part of the Casey NexTen!

Come eat, drink, and be merry with fellow lovers of liberty! Discuss economics, philosophy, politics, finance, intellectual property, and the creeping, ever-encroaching hand of the meddling state!

In addition to Morgan Poliquin, Chris Horlacher (Chartered Accountant at myCFOweb.ca) and Chris Weisdorf (President at Praxis Vesta Group) will also be speaking.

Books will be on sale.

Pauper’s Pub is at 539 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y6. We meet on the second floor.

Join the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/532438250112506/

Ash Navabi is a student at Ryerson University. Send him mail.

Pauper’s Pub

I’ll be giving a short presentation defending the anti-intellectual property position, particularly against the recent attacks of (staunch libertarian and Austrian) Robert Wenzel, editor and publisher of the excellent EconomicPolicyJournal.com.

Pauper’s Pub is at 539 Bloor Street West (near Bathurst station). We will be on the second floor. You can’t miss us, we will have a camera set up. Check out the event on Facebook for more details.

Oh, and invite all your friends!

Ash Navabi is a student at Ryerson University. Send him mail.

10:00AM-4:00PM

Co-hosted with the Institute for Liberal Studies.

This free, one-day will feature author and economist Edward Lopez talking about his new book “Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change.”

We’ll also feature talks by Sanford Ikeda associate professor of economics at the State University of New York, Purchase, Charles Lammam of the Fraser Institute, and Max Borders, author of Superwealth and editor of the Freeman Magazine, building on the themes introduced by Lopez.

Location: University of Toronto, Hart House, Debates Room

7 Hart House Circle  Toronto, ON M5S 3H3

Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.

539 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y6

Second Floor

Speakers include Chris Horlacher of Maple Leaf Metals and Dan Simon of Euro Pacific Canada

Books will be on sale.

Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.

This meeting is open to the public, no ticket purchase required.

The Reception will be held at Paupers Pub – Friday, November 9th, 2012 7:00pm until 10:00pm

539 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y6

http://www.pauperspub.com/contact_us

Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.

UPDATE – MEET ON THE FIRST FLOOR, HEAD TO THE SECOND FLOOR FOR 8:30 PM.

539 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y6

Second Floor

Join Pierre Deroscher as he discusses the benefits of the Global food network and his new book The Locavore’s Dilemma!

http://www.globavore.org/

Speakers include Chris Horlacher of Maple Leaf Metals and Dan Simon of Euro Pacific Canada

Books will be on sale.

Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.

At Paupers Pub

539 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y6

First Floor, at the back.

Speakers include Chris Horlacher

Books will be on sale.

Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.

“An Economist’s Perspective on Environmental Issues”

Art Carden is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics, a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute, a Senior Fellow with the Beacon Center of Tennessee, and a regular contributor to Forbes.com, the Washington Examiner, and my Twitter Feed.

You can read Art’s paper, Economic Calculation in the Environmentalist Commonwealth here.

Thursday, September 20th, 7pm

The Railway Club
579 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1Y4
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Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.

At Paupers Pub

539 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1Y6

Second Floor, at the back.

Speakers include Chris Horlacher of Maple Leaf Metals and Dan Simon of Euro Pacific Canada

Books will be on sale.

Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.

Dr. Susan J. Crockford:
10,000 Years of Polar Bears & Climate Change

Tuesday August 14, 2012
19:00 – 21:00
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
Room 1200
Bahen Centre for Information Technology

The Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and the International Climate Science Coalition present Dr. Susan J. Crockford, noted biologist, zoologist, and author, in Toronto. Dr. Crockford, an expert on polar bear evolution, and focused on evolutionary biology and archaeozoology, will be presenting a 10,000 year perspective of polar bears and climate change.

About Dr. Crockford: Susan Crockford is an evolutionary biologist with a specialty in skeletal taxonomy, paleozoology and vertebrate evolution – and has spent almost 20 years studying the history and evolution of dogs and other domesticates (B.Sc., zoology; Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Studies; 35 years working in archaeozoology, paleozoology and forensic zoology, see www.pacificid.com).

She has many professional papers published in peer-reviewed academic journals and books, and wrote her Ph.D dissertation on the topic presented here (entitled “Animal Domestication and Vertebrate Speciation: A Paradigm for the Origin of Species”). Susan works full-time identifying animal bones for Pacific Identifications Inc., and holds an adjunct faculty position at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she teaches a course for Anthropology students on animal domestication and speciation and advises on matters of paleozoology and archaeozoology.

About the Frontier Centre for Public Policy: The FCPP is an independent, western Canada based public policy “think tank” with offices in Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary. Our mission is to develop and popularize policy choices that will help Canada’s prairie region live up to its vast but unrealized economic potential.

About the International Climate Science Coalition: The ICSC is a non-partisan group of independent scientists, economists and energy and policy experts who are working to promote better understanding of climate science and policy worldwide. We aim to help create an environment in which a more rational, open discussion about climate issues emerges, thereby moving the debate away from implementation of costly and ineffectual “climate control” measures. Instead, ICSC encourages assisting vulnerable peoples to adapt to climate variability and continuing scientific research into the causes and impacts of climate change.

]]> http://mises.ca/posts/events/dr-susan-j-crockford-in-toronto/feed/ 0 http://mises.ca/posts/events/mises-meet-toronto-july/ http://mises.ca/posts/events/mises-meet-toronto-july/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:14:07 +0000 Redmond Weissenberger http://www.mises.ca/?p=3337 The Toronto meet is being held at Paupers Pub – Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:00pm until 11:00pm

Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.

Sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada (www.mises.ca)

(Audience voting will determine the winner, but you don’t get to vote if you arrive late. So, don’t be late.)

7pm sharp.

Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.

Join the Institute for Liberal Studies, Mises Canada, and authors Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu to celebrate the launch of their book “The Locavore’s Dilemma”. There will be a short talk, followed by Q&A and books will be available for sale.

This event will be held in the Music Room in Hart House, on the University of Toronto downtown campus.

Address

7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5S 3H3

Book Description

A new generation of food activists has come to believe that “sustainable farming” and “eating local” are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we can also deliver important economic benefits and increase food security within local economies.

But after a thorough review of the evidence, economic geographer Pierre Desrochers and policy analyst Hiroko Shimizu have concluded these claims are mistaken. In The Locavore’s Dilemma, they explain the history, science, and economics of food supply to reveal what locavores miss or misunderstand: the real environmental impacts of agricultural production; the drudgery of subsistence farming; and the essential role large-scale, industrial producers play in making food more available, varied, affordable, and nutritionally rich than ever before in history. At best, they show, locavorism is a well-meaning marketing fad among the world’s most privileged consumers. At worst, it constitutes a dangerous distraction from solving serious global food issues.

Deliberately provocative, but based on scrupulous research and incontrovertible scientific evidence, The Locavore’s Dilemma proves that:

• Our modern food-supply chain is a superior alternative that has evolved through constant competition and ever-more-rigorous efficiency.
• A world food chain characterized by free trade and the absence of agricultural subsidies would deliver lower prices and more variety in a manner that is both economically and environmentally more sustainable.
• There is no need to feel guilty for not joining the locavores on their crusade. Eating globally, not only locally, is the way to save the planet.

Reviews

“In large parts of the world, local trumps science, and people suffer as a result…. Desrochers and Shimizu take the idea of local food to the back of the barn and beat the holy livin’ tar out of it. In a more rational world, their defense of what is so clearly true would not be needed. However, our world is not rational, and most of what passes for thinking about food is as full of air as an elegant French pastry.” ––from the Foreword by Blake Hurst, president, Missouri Farm Bureau

“Desrochers and Shimizu demonstrate that the debate over food miles is a distraction from the real issues that confront global food production.” ––Ronald Bailey, Reason.com
“Desrochers … is the scholar’s scholar. In an age where few read all important material on all sides of their subject, this professor stands out.” ––MasterResource.org
“Desrochers … delivers a serious warning to the fetishization of local agriculture as the magic bullet that will solve our food problems.” ––Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, sspp.proquest.com

Redmond is the director of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada.