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Will Harper Support Hudak’s Chain Gangs?
Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak has promised to introduce what the Toronto Star calls “modern day chain gangs.” “The Progressive Conservative leader said Thursday that if a Tory government…
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Christy’s HST “fix”: politics trumps good policy
This is no way to make tax policy. Wednesday’s proposed reforms to the HST provide yet more evidence that what we really need is a…
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BC to Raise Corporate Taxes
Amazingly, BC’s government has joined its official opposition in proposing to restore the provincial corporate income tax rate from 10% to 12%. The same government that cut…
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Why I’m voting against the HST: It fails the test of fairness
Reluctantly (and pending significant reforms in the next few weeks), I’ll be voting against the HST this June. It’s a difficult decision (and indeed some…
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Canada Doesn’t Deserve the Silver
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SaskNotes: Harper’s Renewed Attack on the Canadian Wheat Board
Download 410.54 KB4 pages Just one day after the May 2nd federal election, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz made it clear that the Conservative government would…
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British Columbia Auditor finds costly failings in Province’s first hospital P3
A new report by British Columbia’s Auditor General has debunked nearly every benefit claimed so far for public private partnerships (P3s). The Auditor General’s report…
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21st Century Globalization: What Newfoundland and Labrador Can Teach the Rest of Canada
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Fast Facts: “Mean Streets” society coming
The election this month of a majority Conservative government will change Canada’s political landscape in ways that will be detrimental to most Canadians. Cuts to…
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