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Blog
Ed Finn
| The depletion of tax revenue through profligate business bounties is a cunningly devised strategy, giving political leaders the excuse that they simply don't have the means to improve social services. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| The facts don't support the myth New Democratic Party governments always try to break the bank with health-care spending. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| A core belief of neoliberal capitalists is that government budgets must be balanced to prevent the accumulation of public debt. But is public debt necessarily bad? |
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Blog
Lynne Fernandez
| Manitoba premier Brian Pallister's Trump-esque statement that budget 2018 was going to be the "best budget ever" has fallen a bit flat. |
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Blog
Brent Patterson
| The Council of Canadians had a first look at Budget 2018 tabled by Finance Minister Bill Morneau on February 27 and they didn't like what they saw. Here are their initial observations. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| Memo to NDP leadership candidates: please articulate what comes after austerity. |
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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| This budget rocked, in one sense: it did a 180 on the stifling monomania of the last 30 years -- the obsession with deficits. |
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Blog
David Macdonald
| When the National Balance Sheet came out this month, the focus was on the need for households to pay down that debt... somehow. But we need to look at the broader debt picture across all sectors. |
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Blog
Stephen Kimber
| Dalhousie University is ponying up $300,000 USD to cover the cost for nine of the province's best and brightest (and richest) to attend an "entrepreneurship acceleration program" at MIT. Why? |
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Blog
Stephen Kimber
| As a new ferry sails through the same passenger-challenged, money-losing storm en route to the same subsidized disaster, should the premier still be unconditionally committed to it? |
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Blog
Nick Falvo
| From time to time, voluntary sector leaders and advocates come up with ideas for new spending and new social programs. Here are 10 things to know about presenting those ideas to central agencies. |
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Blog
Stephen Kimber
| It's hard not to suspect there is more at play in Transportation Minister Geoff MacLellan's insistence there's been no decision on whether to charge how much in tolls and/or how to finance it all. |
