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  • Foreign trade issues playing out in BC

    Last week Premier Christy Clark took the unprecedented step of promising there would be public consultation regarding the Province’s position on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union. If this really happens it would be an important opportunity.  The current government has never allowed…

  • Why the Conservatives are cutting spending now

    Suffering from fiscal whiplash? First the Harper government tells us the 2005/06 surplus is $13.2 billion. Then on the same day, it announces large spending cuts. Doesn’t it seem a bit gratuitous to cut spending if Ottawa is flush with cash? For a government focused on getting a majority in…

  • Oil sent through new pipeline likely to end up in China

    By year’s end, the U.S. State Department (or possibly, President Obama himself) will decide whether TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline is in the American national interest. The proposed 2,673-kilometre pipeline would bring tar-sands diluted bitumen (or “dilbit”) from Hardisty, Alberta, to Gulf Coast refineries in Texas and Louisiana, crossing through…

  • Platform Costing and the Politics of Fiscal Policy in Ontario

    Download 319.02 KB 15 pages Fiscal policy issues — issues related to the balance between government revenue and expenditure — have come to play a curious role in the electoral cycle in Ontario. In advance of an election, debates over fiscal issues play prominently in the political discourse. The opposition…

  • Housing platforms and platitudes in the 2018 Vancouver election

    It should be no surprise that Vancouver’s growing housing affordability crisis is the top issue going into the election. All candidates are in favour of affordable housing, of course. Sorting out the chatter from concrete plans, however, can be difficult—not least because of the way Vancouver’s municipal politics has fractured…

  • On Labour Day, think about unions as an equalizing force

    By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed levels of production. Those who today attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them. Martin Luther King speaking in 1961 On Labour Day 2011 unions in North…

  • Fast Facts: Putting Winnipeg On Track

    Using Heritage as a Tool for Downtown Rejuvenation For the full report Putting History on Track:  Using Heritage as a Tool for Downtown Rejuvenation in Winnipeg, click here. After incorporation in 1873, the city of Winnipeg flourished, growing from 25,000 people in 1891 to almost 180,000 by the beginning of…

  • Outlook Darkens as Budget Debate Begins

    Allow me to indulge myself just this once.  Almost exactly one month ago I wrote a post on the Progressive Economics blog  arguing that the Bank of Canada was being too optimistic about our economic prospects in the July Monetary Policy Report . Last Friday, both the Governor of the Bank of…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Tax increment financing and True North Square

    First published in the Winnipeg Free Press September 20, 2018 On Thursday September 20, Winnipeg City Council will vote on a motion to clear the way for True North Square (TNS) to receive an $8 million subsidy through the City’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) program. Council will be asked to…

  • Stimulus vs Public Investment

    A column by Nobel Prize winning economist Joe Stiglitz in the Financial Times makes what I think is an important point. The current debate over fiscal policy for the US, Europe and Canada is often characterized in the media as one between advocates of  higher deficits from Keynesian style stimulus measures,  and…

  • Canada, stood up

    Would someone please forward me a copy of the memo? You know, the one that banishes the term “tax cuts” in favour of “tax relief”. In the lead-up to the 2006 federal budget, it seems like all of the tax cutters – from the dozens of groups representing business interests…

  • Big “Fracking” Problem

    Natural gas industry’s “fracking” risks causing earthquakes At the end of this month (Feb. 28), Quebec’s public consultations body, the Bureau des audiences publiques sur l’environment (BAPE), is scheduled to release its report on potential environmental impacts of developing the province’s Utica Shale gas field – an area of 5,000…