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Podcast
Scott Neigh
| Mary Shortall, Jim Dinn and Sara Langer talk about the new Common Front in Newfoundland and Labrador that is fighting the province's austerity agenda. |
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Columnists
Jim Stanford
| This week Stephen Harper's Conservatives are trumpeting the announcement of a small surplus for fiscal year 2014-15. Here's why it doesn't represent a "triumph of good fiscal management." |
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Blog
Michal Rozworski
| This budget is another in a series of unspectacular austerity budgets. Michal Rozworski looks at the election year budget as a continuity of slow-motion austerity past, present and future. |
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Columnists
Murray Dobbin
| We live in a fabulously wealthy country. Everything we dream of is possible, including prosperity and equality. But it requires a political party with the courage to put forward Big Ideas. |
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Podcast
Democracy North
| A weekly independent Canadian & global news hour, featuring a grassroots view of the week’s top news & culture. |
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Blog
Toby Sanger
| Using more of their doublespeak, the Harper government calls the 2014 federal budget "The Road to Balance: Creating Jobs and Opportunities." Little could be further from the truth. |
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Blog
Lynne Fernandez
| Observers were not expecting anything more than a middle-of-the-road federal budget for 2014, but even so the Finance Minister managed to disappoint. |
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Blog
David Macdonald
| The larger surplus in the fall update is due to asset sales and service cuts, which are only partially offset by a freeze in EI premiums. There is no financial management magic here. |
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Blog
Hugh Mackenzie, Trish Hennessy
| Ontario's 2013 budget is a kinder, gentler version of the last budget Dalton McGuinty tabled a year ago, which launched Ontario into a year of austerity battles with labour. |
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Columnists
Hennessy's Index
| There will be an estimated $11.8 billion in government spending cuts by 2014-15, due to the last three austerity budgets. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| By urging fiscal restraint and encouraging austerity, Harper and his G8 summit colleagues in 2010 totally misread the direction of the world economy, and have made a bad economic situation much worse. |
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News
NotOurBudget.ca
| Concerned people from various walks of life disrupted the Minister of Finance's reading of the Conservative budget today. |
