15 Ways to Spend Canada’s Budget Surplus

It appears that the Tories have made good on their promise to give Canada a surplus by the next Federal Election. The last time Canada boasted a surplus was in 2007, where it amounted to about 9.6 billion dolla...

Kardashian Politics and the New Ford Focus

Ari Goldkind is currently running to be Mayor of Toronto on October 27th. You can learn more about him and his campaign at ariformayor.com I must confess I am amazed at the degree to which the mayoral ...

More Tax but Fewer Taxes?

Justin Trudeau says a Liberal government would reverse the Conservatives’ decision to implement income splitting if they win the 2015 federal election. The announcement comes as we inch closer to the fall econo...

A Season of Elections

In Canadian politics, next fall shall usher in a Season of Elections. We will see not only the Federal election scheduled for October 19th but also four Provincial elections and a Territorial election between O...

Another Boring Week in the House of Commons

Last week was an interesting one in the House of Commons (well, not really). For one thing, Elizabeth May was the only leader in regular attendance for one—nothing different there. The Prime Minister, Mr. Mulca...

Rob Anders Prompts Headlines With No-Show Defeat

Canadians a mari usque ad mare are holding their breath, waiting to see if Stephen Harper will break his own fixed-date election law and call an election before October 2015. Will he find a reason to call an el...

New Brunswick Votes 2014: Do Looks Mean Anything?

Update (9/22/14): The results are in, and it's a disaster! Ridings have been called back, special ballots consulted, storage chips on the voting machines are broken, and several ridings have differences of only...