Canadian soldiers and others perished to protect people from just such unjustifiable interventions.
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When politicians run deficits 70 per cent of the time they are abusing their self-appointed privilege.
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To permanently moderate taxes and fees requires getting civic spending under control. That requires short- and long-term policies.
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The release of new documents related to the JFK assassination won't satisfy conspiracy theorists.
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The lesson should be obvious: One comparative economic advantage for Canada is in natural resources.
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Civilizations and their ideas matter; skin colour doesn't.
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The Bombardier-Airbus deal finally rips away the pretense that corporate welfare is about domestic job creation.
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Hong Kong’s British governors and their more recent Chinese equivalents have long understood that a flourishing economy results from entrepreneur-friendly, moderate tax rates.
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A New Brunswick family earning $75,000 will yet pay double the income, sales and fuel tax bill when compared to the same family in Saskatchewan.
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Sears is closing down for the same reason that any organization fails, be it a company, non-profit or even occasionally a state...
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It’s time for advocacy groups, think tanks, opposition parties and taxpaying Canadians to borrow from that 1980s-era slogan for MTV and tell their elected leaders, clearly and forcefully: “I want my $10,000 TSFA (back)!”
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The most indefensible subsidies are those which end up subsidizing businesses with average payrolls in the multi-millions of dollars.
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A useful question came up among social media comments recently
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For NAFTA countries, free trade has been beneficial, not harmful, as the increase in employment demonstrates: 40 million more people are at work now in Canada, Mexico and the United States
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In 2014, those whose incomes exceeded $100,000 represented more than 8 per cent of all tax filers, garnered slightly more than 33 per cent of all income and paid nearly 52 per cent of all federal income tax.
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Once governments “invest” through loans or equity stakes, or otherwise become enmeshed with a company via other corporate welfare schemes, politicians are in an inherent conflict of interest. They feel the need to defend their—or more precisely taxpayers’—“investment” from competition, domestic or foreign.
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Taxpayers, through local taxes, the value of land and a tax surcharge on event tickets will pay $520 million, or 74 per cent of the new arena and related “blacktop” costs.
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Reality check: Blue collar workers in mines and others with specialties related to minerals will not easily find employment elsewhere, not when Alberta already has 202,000 unemployed workers.
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Supply management is a relic of 1930s Soviet central planning influenced by Karl Marx. It never should have been introduced into Canada. So let’s call supply management what it is: Marxist economics applied to dairy cows.
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I prefer that the soft Alberta economy, competition,and insurance industry pressure spur dental bill declines, not government politicking accompanied by veiled threats.
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