The Great Canadian Divide: our road to failure
Canada is divided, perhaps more than the heyday of the Quebec separatist movement. There’s a divide between generations thanks to the budget and there’s a divide between eastern and western…
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Wells had previously theorized that the size of environmental demonstrations in Montreal might hint at the NDP’s ability to establish a…
Québec Students: You’re Coming Along
After school is over you’re playing in the parkDon’t be out too late, don’t let it get too darkThey tell you not to hang around and learn what life’s aboutAnd…
Québec Students: You’re Coming Along
After school is over you're playing in the parkDon't be out too late, don't let it get too darkThey tell you not to hang around and learn what life's aboutAnd…
Québec Students: You’re Coming Along
After school is over you’re playing in the parkDon’t be out too late, don’t let it get too darkThey tell you not to hang around and learn what life’s aboutAnd…
Canada’s fantasy economic outlook is at odds with reality
I still haven’t had an opportunity to return to my budget analysis, it’s been a busy few weeks with the Alberta election and the ever-changing economic news and I just…
In the global race to the bottom it’s impossible to tax the top
You would think Ontario would have learned it’s lesson by now. The rules of economic activity in the era of globalization changed everything and created the race to the bottom,…
Here in sensible Ontario, we tax the rich
So as expected, the McGuinty Liberals compromised with the NDP on the 2012 Ontario budget, applying a surtax to those who earn more than $500,000 a year, in order to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Saturday reading. – As much sympathy as I normally have for Linda McQuaig, I’ll argue that her premise in discussing Andrea Horwath’s call for the wealthy…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – In an excerpt from the Occupy Handbook, Paul Krugman and Robin Wells discuss how a right-wing obsession with exacerbating inequality led to the…
Supply when demanded: Why the free market can’t address peak oil
A friend of mine has to close their business. It’s a fresh business that was founded during the stimulus boom. It’s a green business, which took advantage of the government’s…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – John Cassidy neatly contrasts growth in the postwar period against that in recent decades – with the former seeing a “picket fence” growth…
#abdb8 barely touched what may be Alberta’s most important issue
I’m pretty disappointed. For a province that relies on energy for revenue: I heard a lot about surpluses and very little about revenue. I heard even less about the elevated…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Lawrence Martin comments on the growing resonance of inequality as an issue for Canadian voters. But the most telling sign may be…
Attacking public sector workers is a bad idea
During economic downturns, people have a tendency to turn on one another. We blame victims and eat our own. I’ve been alive long enough to have seen it more than…
Dueling Ledes (Compare & Contrast), Redux
AP video, Feb 15, 2011: A recent government report states the terrorist threat from Canada is greater than from Mexico, and that only 50 kilometres of the border is adequately…
Dueling Ledes (Compare & Contrast)
TorStar, March 20th: Schools, hospitals and popular burger restaurants such as Hero’s and Lick’s are part of a suddenly massive beef recall over fears of E. coli contamination. The G&M,…
That’s a wrap? – Killing Saskatchewan’s film tax credit is economic nonsense
The cast from InSecurity. The TV show will no longer be produced in Saskatchewan. With the announcement of the axing of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit, we are effectively…
Flaherty, you’re not making any sense
So this article here just came to my attention. I have written a few different articles about debt and our housing market lately. On March 21st I published “Canada and…