Harper eyes the parliamentary budget for cuts
News from CTV last night that Harper is looking for a 10 per cent cut to Parliament’s $585M budget. A few thoughts come to mind. First, is this a distraction…
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February mid-month round-up: Greece burns, Alberta gambles & Canada trades soul for Pandas
Well it would appear that China has finally found a spot to park it’s unwanted USD. That would be here in good old Canada and all it cost them was…
Why Flaherty was so upset with the PBO yesterday
Well, there was the main takeaway from Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page’s report release yesterday on the fiscal sustainability of Old Age Security that Flaherty would not have been too…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Geoffrey Stevens discusses the basic problem behind the Cons’ insistence on cutting back actual help to people while wasting billions on prisons…
Parliament in Review: December 1, 2011
In the midst of a week of acrimonious debate over both the substance of the Cons’ dumb-on-crime legislation and the government’s procedural maneuvers to prevent even improvements which it recognized…
Occupy Boston: No War On Iran
On Saturday, February 4, The Action for Peace Working Group of Occupy Boston will co-sponsor a rally and march as part of an international day of action to demand NO…
Welcome to 2012
We are now a week in to 2012 and so far it doesn't seem like the end of the world. Unseasonably warm, yes. But end-of-the-world hot ... I don't think…
Welcome to 2012
We are now a week in to 2012 and so far it doesn’t seem like the end of the world. Unseasonably warm, yes. But end-of-the-world hot … I don’t think…
Welcome to 2012
We are now a week in to 2012 and so far it doesn't seem like the end of the world. Unseasonably warm, yes. But end-of-the-world hot ... I don't think…
Welcome to 2012
We are now a week in to 2012 and so far it doesn’t seem like the end of the world. Unseasonably warm, yes. But end-of-the-world hot … I don’t think…
Toronto City Budget – The Problem Is Ford
Numbers Game | Toronto Media Co-op The City budget is not and has never been in a financial crisis according to figures released by the Wellesley Institute, an urban health…
Nothing to see here
“All about the economy, says Harper.” Yes, yes, what else would he say in an interview on what to expect in 2012. Anyhoo, this is an interesting reassurance being rolled…
Compromise!?
Obama wants to push the so called compromise of extending the payroll tax cuts by another 2 years. If this is considered a compromise it a joke. Because first both…
I told you so
For years, this corner has described the growth of spending (a.k.a. Williams popularity subsidization) over the past eight years by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as quite simply unsustainable.…
Harper’s Secret Taxes!
After Harper said he would like the provinces to pay half for his new (billion dollar) Prison system in which he intends to increase crime and reduce justice, Ontario and…
Rob Ford’s Budget Con Job – "a giant scam being perpetrated on the citizens of Toronto."
The Grid TO | Budget 2012: Rob Ford’s sleight of hand If Rob Ford hadn’t cut or cancelled all those taxes, we’d have enough to cover the entire budget hole…
What Super Committee?
It seems the so called committee that was going to save the U.S deficit crisis (yeah right) ended up doing nothing. And those so called triggers that would have come…
November mid-month round-up: Occupy dies, the New World Order is born, the revolution begins
The Occupy movement is dead. Seriously. In it’s place however is the new American revolution. They look similar, and the new American revolution is still calling itself Occupy, but they…
Wow I Was Right!
I stated just a few post's ago that the Conservative would reduce their budget targets. Now This time around Jim Flaherty thinks he has a good case. Saying the economy…