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Ontario Budget Emulates Drummond
Perhaps the most striking feature of today’s Ontario budget is how close it comes to last month’s Drummond report. Drummond’s preferred scenario for 2017-18 was $134.7 billion of provincial…
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Completing the job started by Mike Harris
The crowning irony of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ninth budget is that it completes the job of cutting government down to size started by the Mike…
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Fast Facts: Ask Target for Fairness
Retail jobs worth fighting for In 2011, American retail giant Target bought 189 Zellers stores across Canada. Soon after the purchase, the corporation sold 39…
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Cinq critères d’évaluation du budget fédéral
Le prochain budget du gouvernement – si les annonces se révèlent exactes – pourrait changer fondamentalement l’orientation du Canada. Un budget d’austérité ne ferait pas…
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Five Tests By Which to Evaluate the Federal Budget
The coming government budget–if the advance billing is accurate– could fundamentally change the direction of this country. An austerity budget would not only threaten Canada’s…
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2012 Québec Budget: timidity and omissions
On March 20th, Québec’s Finance Minister, Raymond Bachand, tabled his third budget. This budget year follows in the wake of those of the last few years.…
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Brad Wall’s Wonderful World of Laissez-Faire
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Inflation Central
Statistics Canada reported today that consumer prices edged up by 0.1% in February on a seasonally-adjusted basis, bringing the annual inflation rate to 2.6% and the core…
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Below 40% of the Unemployed Get EI
Statistics Canada reported today that 12,400 more Canadians received Employment Insurance (EI) regular benefits in January. The increase in recipients reflected higher unemployment. Indeed, the proportion of…
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Fast Facts: Thinking Alternatives
It is essential that we oppose the terribly destructive policies being imposed upon us by the federal Conservative government, but it is equally if not…
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Log exports: waving the white flag of economic defeat
As more and more raw, unprocessed logs leave British Columbia’s coast in ocean freighters bound for the far side of the world, a common refrain…
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Nova Scotia Alternative Budget 2012
Forward to Fairness Download 2.28 MB85 pages This document shows Nova Scotians that minor changes in government spending could have a major impact on the…
