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Flaherty’s Christmas List — all Mixed Up
Following recent dismal reports on rising unemployment, stagnant GDP growth, and a deteriorating economic outlook, we can only hope federal Finance minister Jim Flaherty will provide some Christmas…
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Reflections on the year past and the year to come: Inequality explodes into the public discourse
If this past year — marked by the Arab Spring and the fall arrival of the Occupy movement — has taught us anything, it is…
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Taxing Capital Gains
The following also appears in The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab: Earlier this week, Kevin Milligan questioned proposals “to increase the tax on capital gains.” Currently, Canadian income tax…
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Fast Facts: Selling City Golf Courses to Developers
A Permanent Loss October 26, 2011 was the deadline for developers to make proposals for seven large pieces of prime real estate scattered across Winnipeg. …
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Is Money Enough? The Meaning of 6% and Flaherty’s Health “Plan”
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Modest Inflation Outstrips Wages and Canada Social Transfer
Statistics Canada reported today that the annual inflation rate remained 2.9% and the Bank of Canada’s core rate remained 2.1% in November. The monthly increase in consumer…
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Government intervention needed to address youth unemployment
The Canadian Federation of Students, and most of the people we have spoken to, is at a loss over how the government thinks it can…
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Business dominated think tank winds up with report showing little progress in BC
The British Columbia Progress Board came out with its last report today. Gordon Campbell started the think tank in 2001 and now Christy Clark has…
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EI Coverage Falls Below 40%
It may be a grim Christmas for thousands of unemployed Canadians. Today’s Employment Insurance figures show that fewer workers received benefits in October, even as more became…
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