New Ontario Road Signs: Bright and Expensive

If road signs are any indication, Ontario has a bright future. The province recently unveiled their brand-new, made-in-Ontario LED road signs, which aim to remind drivers of the common sense laws they know they...

Poloz’s Shocker: Bank of Canada Cuts Interest Rate

The Canadian economy looked strong until last Wednesday, when the Bank of Canada slashed, gashed, trashed, cut, and gut its overnight lending rate. It was the sort of bold move that would lead Fat Bastard to in...

The 2015 Election Is Going To Be Expensive

The price of oil may be falling faster than Canadians’ faith in their government, but that doesn’t mean everything is cheaper than it used to be. Morals are always for sale, but some goods, like F-35 fighter je...

Joe Oliver, the Budget, and the Election

Canada was never supposed to run a budget deficit. Those words weren’t even in our vocabulary. But before we knew it, we were borrowing money to advertise our economic prowess. It’s funny how much can change in...

Harper and Wynne Meet in Toronto

Those in the know suspect that Stephen Harper and Kathleen Wynne hate each other. Even without a rigorous evaluation of this claim, it is easy to see how it could be true. Both politicians represent different p...

Nutrition North: A Partisan Program?

Nutrition North is a program responsible for providing affordable food in northern Canadian communities. That’s what it’s supposed to do, anyway, but reviews vary depending on who provides them. For example, St...

The Deficit That Won’t Die

Failure was never an option when it came to the budget. If the government couldn’t balance it before the election in 2015, then they couldn’t justify handing out goodies to make everyone forget their actions (o...

Prime Minister Harper’s Holiday Message

This holiday season, Stephen Harper has a message for Canadians. A CBC video begins with a slideshow of the Prime Minister doing what he does best: sitting alone in a room, making eye contact with an elderly wo...

Danielle Smith and the Wildrose “Victory”

The wonderful thing about politics is that everyone always wins. Consider Danielle Smith, the Leader of Alberta’s Wildrose Party. Last month she left her party and joined her former enemies, the Progressive Con...

Canada Still Seeking Climate Target

Leona Aglukkaq may be good at reading a newspaper, but she isn’t good at setting emissions reductions targets. That’s not to say that she’s alone—recent Conservative Environment Ministers have a pitiful record ...