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Québec Students Strike Over Tuition-Fee Hikes
This morning, there are more than 65 000 students on strike in Québec. University students, but also college-level students, are walking out of classrooms to…
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Debunking Drummond
Personal Income Tax $24.8 billion Canada Health Transfer $10.7 billion Equalization $ 2.2 billion Corporate Income Tax $ 8.9 billion Provincial Enterprises $ 4.5 billion…
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A Tale of Two Austerity Hardliners
Conservative soul mates, Stephen Harper and British Prime Minister David Cameron, were in Davos, Switzerland a month ago lecturing Eurozone leaders on how to get…
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New Generation of Thinkers Link Inequality, Innovation and Prosperity
This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part…
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The long term costs of legislating workers back to work
As the provincial government spends the weekend drafting back-to-work legislation that will impose a contract on BC teachers, I found this opinion piece I wrote…
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The Great Natural Gas Footrace: Where Have We Seen This Before?
Several weeks ago, some running buddies of mine – two fine chaps working in the provincial civil service – invited me to speak on a…
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The Disastrous Consequences of the Omnibus Crime Bill
Canada is one Senate vote away from becoming the most regressive Western democracy on criminal justice. That unenviable position has most recently been occupied by…
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New Brunswick Government Policies Regressive and Unsustainable
In September 2010, New Brunswick voters elected a majority Conservative government, led by David Alward. Since being elected, this government has pursued the twin illusions…
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The false economy of BC Budget 2012: deficit exaggerated to avoid spending on real problems
Today’s BC budget was simply titled Budget 2012. It broke with the tradition of ambitious-sounding titles we’ve seen in the last decade (such as 2010’s…
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Drummond, Deconstructed
In the Commission report that bears his name, and in all of his media appearances since its release, Banker Don Drummond has ably played the…
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Federal cuts may lead to 116,000 jobs lost: New Estimate
The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) today came out today with their own GDP and jobs impact estimates from the $8 billion in federal cuts. They…
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Internet snooping law needs more than cosmetic changes
The just introduced Internet snooping legislation is causing concern among some mainstream Conservative government supporters. Since its introduction on Valentine’s Day, it has been questioned,…
