In case you didn’t notice the plenty of black and white evidence showing you our banks are no more sound and stable than our U.S. counterparts then you are in luck. Everyone knows that black and white is ancient and many people can not …

The Federal Tobacco Control Strategy is being cut, trade consulates will be closed, a…

In the context of student protests over Quebec tuition fees, my friend Luan Ngo has just written a very informative blog post on Quebec’s fiscal situation.
While I encourage readers to read his full post, I do want to use the present space to make ment…

Assorted content to end your weekend. – For much of the relatively recent past, one of the areas of relative consensus in economic theory is that productivity increases would find their way to workers. But Paul Krugman shows that hope to be utterly mis…

Assorted content to end your weekend.- For much of the relatively recent past, one of the areas of relative consensus in economic theory is that productivity increases would find their way to workers. But Paul Krugman shows that hope to be utterly misp…

Michael Hudson asks: “In light of the enormous productivity gains since the end of World War II – and especially since 1980 – why isn’t everyone rich and enjoying the leisure economy that was promised?” The answer (per Hudson) is painfully obvious, but bears repeating (ad infinitum): What was applauded as a post-industrial economy has [...]

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After the anger I felt yesterday, I have been thinking. Is it not strange that we equate today’s “wars” with real wars of the past? How has this happened? I champion democracy but not at the hand of an iron fist. What I find even stra…

Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Krugman writes a long-overdue obituary for the confidence fairy who was supposed to turn needless austerity into growth contrary to all economic evidence: So, about that doctrine: appeals to the wonders…

Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Paul Krugman writes a long-overdue obituary for the confidence fairy who was supposed to turn needless austerity into growth contrary to all economic evidence:So, about that doctrine: appeals to the wonders …

The Government issued a press release yesterday announcing that a phalanx of Conservative politicians would be fanning out over the country to tout the benefits of the proposed Canada-European Union (EU) Free Trade Agreement.
To learn more, here is wha…

Suddenly, everyone wants to change the tune from ‘austerity’ to ‘growth’

It’s “the most ambitious plan of its kind in history,” boasts Canada’s international trade minister Ed Fast, as Conservative cabinet ministers hit cities across the country today to market Canada’s impending free trade deal with Europe. Med…

Many sectors of Canadian society are still in shock, reeling from the recent budget cutbacks announced by the Harper Conservatives. The CBC, the National Film Board, Elections Canada, Canadian Border Services, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Vete…

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 Canada and the economic differences and difficulti…

Epoch Times:… Moody’s downgraded the province’s credit rating from Aa1 to Aa2 on Thursday, on Wednesday Standard & Poor’s downgraded its outlook for the province to negative.With Moody’s downgrade, Ontario joins the lowest of three tiers …

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 long-term base. So what ended up happening? What happened in M…

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 long-term base. So what ended up happening?What happened in Montreal …

So… let us go through it by the income interests.
The ONDP and its defenders on the issue of the very recently passed Ontario budget have been quick to talk of  “making parliament work” and of being “responsible.” The Liberals, obviously, hav…

As I type this, thousands of youth are out in the streets of Montreal, in defiance of a police decree set at 22h30 EDT that their protest tonight is illegal. They are ostensibly protesting the planned hikes of tuition fees set in the last Quebec budget…