Category Archives: Economics

Food for thought

How about a second helping of hospital food? No, really. They’ll even trim the crusts off the egg salad sandwiches for you. They being the bistro staff at Ottawa’s Queensway Carleton Hospital, not the politicians endlessly praising our health system … Continue reading

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‘Action Plan’ for inaction

Practically everything about government budgets makes me want to scream, from reckless spending to vacuous rhetoric. Take Thursday’s federal “Economic Action Plan 2012”… please.
First, it was awful. Then almost everybody said exactly what you’d expect if they’d written their press … Continue reading

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The Top Five, March 31

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Hardly a budget

Reaction on Thursday was predictable. The Green Party said Jim Flaherty delivered a budget that was “tough on nature”; the Ottawa Citizen said he delivered one that “includes major changes to … the size of government”; the Communications Workers of … Continue reading

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Double-talk hiding Ontario’s debt troubles

Despite his hard-won reputation for unreliability, I pay attention when Dalton McGuinty talks, about Ontario’s debt or anything else. I know I can count on him … to be misleading in important ways.
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