Deficit

No more confidence in ‘Conservative’ government and Stephen Harper

February 9, 2011 Politics

In case there are still people out there who haven’t caught on yet: the federal government is “Conservative” in name only. Going by its spending habits, it is actually to the left of the NDP.

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Government is no friend or protector to Canadians

September 29, 2010 Politics

If you’re one of the usual lefty types, all smug and anti-American, you will probably have been experiencing a lot of schadenfreude at our neighbours’ plight: California going broke, and the rest of the country counting its debt and deficit in trillions. Don’t be too smug, however, because if we stop blowing smoke and apply [...]

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Time to abolish all labour unions is now!

September 1, 2010 Business

The world was recently treated to images from China, where workers for contract manufacturers of mostly Western companies formed their own ad-hoc unions and rose up in protest at their working conditions. Even more impressive was the fact that many of them actually won concessions from their employers, and this trend has already begun to [...]

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Obama’s stimulus was for the birds

July 16, 2010 Business

It may be that the last people in America who believe that the $862 billion economic stimulus of February 2009 created millions of net new jobs are Vice President Joe Biden and the staff economists in the White House. Yesterday, President Obama's chief economist announced that the plan had "created or saved" between 2.5 million [...]

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