Canadian News & Opinion

Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying billions to subsidize cruise ship repairs By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | January 22, 2021

$3 billion in taxpayer money down the drain is no small thing

City Hall admits Rail Deck Park is 99.9 per cent unfunded By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Jasmine Moulton, CTF Ontario Director | January 21, 2021

“Tory and the rest of city council should do the responsible thing and abandon their reckless plans for this unfunded sky-park boondoggle”

Nearly 40% of Canadians who pay capital gains taxes earn less than $100,000 a year By Fraser Institute | January 19, 2021

Correcting Common Misunderstandings about Capital Gains Taxes

Canadian Constitution Foundation’s statement on Ontario’s stay at home order By Canadian Constitution Foundation | January 15, 2021

This is bad for police and bad for the public

Toronto’s tax-and-spend budget for 2021 not a serious plan for city’s financial woes By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Jasmine Moulton, CTF Ontario Director | January 14, 2021

“Tory’s plan to proceed with Rail Deck Park is the $3.8-billion elephant in the room,”

Toronto must control spending instead of raising taxes in 2021 By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | January 14, 2021

Tory and the rest of Toronto city council must stop wasting taxpayers’ money and get their spending under control this year

Oklahoma and Texas rank far more attractive for oil and gas investment than Alberta By Fraser Institute | January 14, 2021

Canada-US Energy Sector Competitiveness Survey 2020

Eliminating unnecessary red tape could save Canadian businesses nearly $11 billion per year By Fraser Institute | January 12, 2021

The Importance of Labour Market Mobility to Productivity Growth

The “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” Award for 2020 By Arthur Weinreb | January 11, 2021

The clear winner of the 2020 DAISY is Rod Phillips,

No Vaccine For You! By Arthur Weinreb | January 1, 2021

At any time the COVID Nazis can say “No vaccine for you” if there is a problem, like burned out workers, the government can’t be bothered fixing

Dear NDP and Liberals, Hands-off our pensions By News on the Net -- Pierre Poilievre | December 28, 2020

Canada’s Covid-19 Resistance - What Dr. Hinshaw’s Affidavit foretells By William Walter Kay BA JD | December 24, 2020

Resistance to the Covid reign of terror needs to explore additional pathways

Taxpayers release Naughty and Nice List By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Franco Terrazzano, CTF Alberta Director | December 24, 2020

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tops the Naughty List
• Politicians that took pay cuts land on the Nice List

Federal debt has passed $1,000,000,000,000 By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | December 22, 2020

The federal debt is currently increasing by over $10,000 per second, $43 million per hour or $1 billion every day

Unsettling video shows cops assaulting, pulling taser on young man for playing ice hockey outside By The Blaze | December 19, 2020

'Get on the ground before I taser you!'

Trudeau’s second carbon tax means more costs at worst possible time By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Franco Terrazzano, CTF Alberta Director | December 18, 2020

Canadian Constitution Foundation intervening in legal challenge of Ontario lockdown TODAY By Canadian Constitution Foundation | December 18, 2020

Personal freedom on the wane worldwide: report By Fraser Institute | December 17, 2020

The 10 freest and the least-free countries in the 2020 Human Freedom Index

Canadian generosity has hit a new low By Fraser Institute | December 15, 2020

Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2020 Generosity Index

The Next Premier of Ontario Will Be… By Arthur Weinreb | December 14, 2020

A PC party without Doug Ford has a reasonable chance of remaining in power after 2022

Pierre Poilievre vs Chrystia Freeland on Big Corporations receiving COVID Relief Money By News on the Net | December 13, 2020

Pierre Poilievre vs Chrystia Freeland

Don’t let the government turn your savings into their “PRE-loaded” credit card. By News on the Net | December 13, 2020

Pierre Poilievre

Canada’s health-care wait times hit 22.6 weeks in 2020—longest ever recorded By Fraser Institute | December 11, 2020

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 Report

Ottawa needs to save money and it can start by fixing procurement By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | December 9, 2020

Post-pandemic fiscal reality should make governments more focused on value for money.

New book explains genesis and key contributions of Austrian school of economics By Fraser Institute | December 8, 2020

The videos are also available on the Fraser Institute’s YouTube channel

A Tale of Two Politicians: Which one do you trust? By Canada Free Press | December 7, 2020

• Conservative Pierre Poilievre , Opposition critic for finance
• Liberal Chrystia Freeland, Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

Ontario Premier Doug Ford will be a One-Term Wonder By Arthur Weinreb | December 7, 2020

Ford will definitely be a one-termer and the anti-Kathleen Wynne Liberals cannot be counted upon to vote for him again

Taxpayers deserve ‘duty of care’ from the CRA By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | December 3, 2020

It’s well past time that taxpayers had some clear protection from overzealous CRA agents

Freeland looks to take the federal debt to infinity and beyond By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | December 1, 2020

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's fall economic statement

Taxpayers Federation warns of debt spiral as federal debt approaches $1,000,000,000,000 By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | November 30, 2020

A pandemic isn’t a free pass to cynically increase spending on everything, especially when taxpayers are struggling