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McGuinty Budget Would Cut Over 100,000 Jobs
Last week, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union released an interesting report by the Centre for Spatial Economics on the economic impact of proposed provincial budget cuts. It provides…
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Neil Reynolds’ Fuzzy Tax Math
If you need help with your tax return, don’t ask Neil Reynolds. His latest attack on the New Democrat proposal to collect modestly more tax from Ontario’s super-rich stated…
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Meilinomics I: The Little Boats
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy. There’s a family that comes…
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Hail to the Chief? Or Bailing on the Chief?
A leaked provincial Cabinet document indicates that the provincial government is contemplating “suspending” the powers of one of its most powerful public servants in order…
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Environmental Assessment
It’s hard not to sympathize with those who want to drastically change provincial and federal government environmental assessment processes. You only have to suffer through…
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And they all fall down: The day of reckoning in B.C.’s over-cut interior forests looms
For more than a quarter century, logging companies at the government’s blessing have been on a tear through British Columbia’s expansive interior forests. In the…
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Budget 2012: Deficit budget creates a surplus of spin
We went to the provincial legislature yesterday to review the budget and prepare our analysis. Our pre-budget predictions were accurate (see the April 16th Fast…
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Political Apathy and Voter Suppression: Who are the real slackers?
Haven’t you heard? Canada’s in deep trouble. No, it’s not rising inequality. Or stagnant incomes. (That growing gap between the rich and the rest of…
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Fast Facts: It’s Budget Time Again
A glimmer of hope and a healthy dose of skepticism On April 17th Minister Stan Struthers will release details of how the Province will manage…
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Working After Age 65
What is at Stake? Download 512 KB12 pages It is argued by some that eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed Income Supplement…
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Inequalities, Trade Unions and Virtuous Circles
The Scandanavian Example In a recent posting on this site – “Thinking Alternatives” we suggested that the Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden…
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Later Retirement: A Win-Win Solution?
The C. D. Howe Institute have put out a study on later retirement by Peter Hicks, a former senior official with HRSDC and the OECD who has…
