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Columnists
Jim Stanford
| Did the median voter's views on economic issues change during the 2015 federal campaign? Or did the parties just carve up that terrain differently? |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| Tom Mulcair and the NDP caucus did a great job in undermining the credibility of the Harper government; then Justin Trudeau reaped the rewards by sowing doubts about "Tom Mulcair's NDP." |
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Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| There's every indication that Justin Trudeau, notwithstanding his progressive talk, would continue the longstanding Liberal tradition of letting Bay Street call the economic shots. |
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Blog
Hugh Mackenzie
| What a surprise! The NDP makes a proposal for a very modest increase in corporate tax rates and defenders of all things corporate in Canada turn on their scary corporate tax number-generating machine. |
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Blog
Seth Klein
| Which opposition party, with a potential to win the election, has the better platform when it comes to tackling climate change and inequality? Seth Klein weighs the parties on these core issues. |
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Blog
David Macdonald
| On Monday the Liberals released a portion of their platform for the upcoming federal election. While some ideas are good, things get weird when it comes to their proposed tax changes. |
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Podcast
Redeye Collective
| Today's families need child care, parental leave for dads and tax measures that help lower earners -- not income-splitting -- according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. |
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Blog
Karl Nerenberg
| The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) says the drop in oil prices will mean the government will run a small deficit this year. Harper pretends the PBO says otherwise. The NDP has other ideas. |
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Blog
Brent Patterson
| While cheaper gas means Canadian motorists could save $12 billion in 2015, it has other implications for the Harper government given its chosen dependence on a petro-economy. |
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Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| A surprisingly strong report just released by the prestigious OECD may cause the public to regard neoliberal snakeoil salesmen peddling a trickle-down scam more skeptically in the future. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| When the G20 meetings in Brisbane, Australia broke up last weekend, the usual "time to manage the news" approach of the host government ran into some serious difficulties. |
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Columnists
Jim Stanford
| Ever since the global meltdown of 2008, it's been an article of faith in Canadian economics that we somehow handled the whole mess better than the rest of the world. |
