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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
Posted in Arts & culture, Budget, Columns, Economics, Government, Health care
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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
Posted in Budget, Columns, Economics, Government, Health care, Media, Parliament, Politics
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The Top Five, March 31
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Posted in CFRA, Crime, Economics, Environment, Government, History, Humour, International, Science & Technology
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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
Posted in Budget, Columns, Economics, Government, Health care, Media, Military, Parliament, Politics
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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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