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Quebec Budget-Cutting Commission to Cost Millions

Quebec's new government rode to their landslide victory on the promise of fiscal accountability, pledging balanced budgets and an end to wasteful spending. It'll just cost a few million dollars. In a provinc...

Ontario Budget Passed: Why is Nobody Writing About It?

Premier Kathleen Wynne and her veritable army of Liberal cronies passed the Ontario budget today, but nobody seems to be talking about it. There are no major newspaper stories, no major segments on ...

Wynne Presents the Same Damn Ontario Budget

Today at Queen’s Park, the Liberal government presented their exciting new Ontario budget that has been promised to be tailor-made for everyone in order to solve all our problems. Spoiler: There’s nothing ne...

Canada To Buy F-35 Fighter Jets For $9Bn: Here We Go Again

We will likely be buying 65 F-35 Fighter Jets from Lockheed Martin for $9 billion. Yes you read that right. After the immense criticism that Stephen Harper faced two years ago, he announced an 18 month review o...

Couillard and Leitao’s New Quebec Budget: Balanced next year?

Quebec Finance Minister Carlos Leitao tabled the 2014-2015 Quebec budget today, and it's quite densely packed. The government plans to erase the deficit by the 2015-2016 budget, which we should see again this t...

What To Expect From Couillard and Leitao’s Quebec Budget Brouhaha

The day of reckoning is upon us. Later today, Premier Philippe Couillard is expected to unveil his government's 2014-2015 budget for the province of Quebec. Finance Minister Carlos Leitao really drove home the ...

Money Grows on Trees: Horwath and Wynne’s Education Plans for Ontario

Part II of our series comparing the education platforms of the major Ontario parties. Yesterday was the PCs, today is the Liberals and NDP, and tomorrow we cover the Greens, Commies, and Libertarians. ...

Ontario Election Outlook: Pessimism

Ontarians, I’d say that we were in the deep end again, but that doesn’t quite cut it. We’re in a deep end with our arms chopped off, our legs tied together, and we have salt in one of eyes. In other words, w...

Something about balancing a bucket list.

As Jim Flaherty Resigns, Newest Episode of “Race to the Bottom” Begins

New Finance Minister Joe Oliver posing with Premier Alison Redford, noted fiscal disciplinateur.Premier Alison Redford It’s no secret, folks. There are holes in the Conservative ship, and it appe...

There is a 70% chance that a Canadian politician will be wearing a poppy in any given photo

Ongoing Senate Party Exposes Reason for Ongoing Federal Deficit

Just when you think it can’t get any colder, news breaks from the Senate. Now it’s hot hot hot all over again. What has Mike Duffy done this time? Zooming in on GoogleEarth, beads of sweat are visible on the...

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