• Winnipeg City Council Misses the Bus – Again

    Council’s recent decision to increase bus fare by a total of 25 cents by June 2012 adds to a growing list of wrong-headed policies moving…

  • Drummond Misdiagnoses Ontario’s Economy

    The Harvard International Review has posted an interview with Don Drummond. I have posted the following response: It is good Drummond confesses that his free-market policy prescriptions failed to…

  • How to destroy a good poverty line

    More than a decade ago, the federal and provincial governments started work on a new poverty line – the Market Basket Measure (MBM). After decades…

  • Le Nouveau-Brunswick est à une croisée des chemins

    L’impôt progressif, un choix clair Le Nouveau-Brunswick est à une croisée des chemins. Adopter un système d’impôt progressif est le choix clair. En augmentant les…

  • New Brunswick at a Crossroads

    Progressive Income Tax, a Clear Choice Download 625.73 KB12 pages New Brunswick is at a crossroads. Moving toward a more progressive income tax formula is…

  • An additional quarter billion dollars could go a long way in New Brunswick

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX/MONCTON–The authors of a new report estimate that the New Brunswick government could increase its annual revenue by more than…

  • Un quart de milliard de dollars de plus donnerait un bon coup de pouce à l’économie du Nouveau-Brunswick

    CLIQUEZ ICI POUR CONSULTER LE RAPPORT (Halifax / Moncton) Les auteurs d’un nouveau rapport estiment que la province du Nouveau-Brunswick pourrait voir ses revenus annuels…

  • McGuinty’s Business Tax Breaks

    An interesting nugget in last week’s Drummond report is Table 11.1, an updated version of Table 2 from “Ontario’s Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth” (2009). It provides…

  • Trans-Pacific Partnership

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  • EI Shrank by 100,000 in 2011

    Statistics Canada reported today that the number of Canadians receiving Employment Insurance rose by 4,230 in December, a month in which unemployment rose by 6,100. The proportion of unemployed…

  • Deflating Drummond

    Statistics Canada reported today that consumer prices jumped in January (by 0.4% or 0.5% seasonally-adjusted), offsetting the drop in December. As a result, the annual inflation rate is now…

  • “Mass staff replacements” in seniors’ care: impacts and solutions

    Deep in the second volume of the BC Ombudsperson’s recently-released second report on seniors’ care, is an interesting and important discussion about large-scale staff replacements and…