Canadian News, Opinion

Across all income levels, Canadians pay higher personal income taxes than Americans By | July 7, 2020
Canada’s Rising Personal Tax Rates and Falling Tax Competitiveness, 2020
20th century economist Joseph Schumpeter’s ideas can help Canada recover from recession By | July 2, 2020
Schumpeter’s key ideas including the importance of entrepreneurship to economic growth
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Just 5 spending categories out of 34 account for more than 60% of total increase in federal spending By | June 30, 2020
Understanding where the federal government has increased spending is an important step in developing a plan back to sustainable finances,
Fear and Greed! By -- John Budreski | June 28, 2020
There is a huge prize awaiting. It’s now the time for Albertans to do what they do best - get the job done!
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Stimulus spending will not ‘kickstart’ economy, will increase government deficits and de By | June 25, 2020
Is Fiscal Stimulus an Effective Policy Response to a Recession?
Taxpayers Federation reacts to rating downgrade of Canada’s sovereign debt By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | June 24, 2020
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Automatic increases in generosity of Canada’s Employment Insurance program will add to Ottawa& By | June 23, 2020
Extended Employment Insurance Now Open to All: Atlantic Canada’s Warning for Other Provinces
Canada, A Country That Is Not! By -- Ian de W. Semple | June 22, 2020
Entity known as Canada, if still existing in its present form, in a state of extended dependence and federal bondage
Four In Five Canadians, Think Ottawa Must Speak Up About China’s Human Rights Abuses By | June 19, 2020
Leading pollster calls results “stunning”
Taxpayers Federation secures pledges from CPC leadership candidates to scrap carbon tax By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | June 19, 2020
The Need For An Alberta Constitution By -- Drew Barnes (Alberta MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat) | June 18, 2020
Alberta should be the freest, richest place in North America and an effective, encompassing, written Alberta constitution may ensure that
Equalization program can’t adapt to rapid fiscal changes among provinces By | June 18, 2020
Equalization and Stabilization post-recession: Is Canada ready?
COVID’s Collateral Contagion: Why Faking Parliament Is No Way To Govern In A Crisis By | June 15, 2020
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So long, office space? Two-thirds of Canadians who work from home expect it to continue after pandem By | June 11, 2020
Half feel the worst of COVID-19’s economic impacts are over, while half feel the worst is yet to come
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Government workers across Canada receive 9.4% higher wages, on average, than comparable private-sect By | June 11, 2020
Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Canada, 2020
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Canada’s Missing Protests By | June 8, 2020
Protest is more valid when it targets people and events at home
Canada Telecom Firms Skip Huawei For 5G By | June 5, 2020
To juice the recovery cut taxes and get out of the way By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | June 4, 2020
Doctors Wary of Canada-China Vaccine Trial By -- NTD News | June 4, 2020
Four-day work week possible by 2030 without sacrificing income, living standards By | June 3, 2020
Reducing the Workweek Through Improved Productivity
Political parties shouldn’t be taking the wage subsidy By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | June 2, 2020
Politicians shouldn't be surprised when taxpayers start demanding an end to the rest of their cozy little subsidy racket
The Wolves Are Running The Henhouse By -- Randy Royer | May 31, 2020
The West needs to come to grips with the reality that Canada seems like it is failing for a reason; the people who want it to fail are in charge
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Jesus Commands the Church to Meet. Period By | May 29, 2020
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Ottawa spending 50% more per Canadian in 2020 than during the 2009 recession: $13,226 vs. $8,775 By | May 26, 2020
Deferring Federal Taxes: Illustrating the Deficit Using the GST
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Study shows Toronto mega-park bill likely to double By -- Jasmine Pickel, CTF Ontario Director | May 26, 2020
“It’s ridiculous that Tory thinks struggling taxpayers across the country should be on the hook for his pet project in downtown Toronto”
More Ontario high schools experienced declining performance in 2019 than improved By | May 24, 2020
Report Card on Ontario’s Secondary Schools 2020
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The Myth of Canada’s Indigenous Garden of Eden By -- The Epoch Times | May 22, 2020
With Canada’s Indigenous underclass doubling every 20 years, the despair of ethnicity-based marginalization in perpetuity is unconscionable. And the cost to taxpayers is unsustainable
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We’re All in This Together (except Small Business Owners) By | May 20, 2020
Big business has received relief because they can call up their friends in Ottawa. Canadian university students and young, urban loafers are getting it because they can wave placards, shout.Small business owners? We haven’t the resources or time.
WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People By | May 19, 2020
Are we, as Canadians, prepared to pay blood money for conservation, including the purchase of AK47's, etc., for paramilitary groups funded by the World Wide Fund 
Ottawa’s carbon tax hike out of step with global reality By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director, Franco Terrazzano, Alberta Director | May 19, 2020
Now more than ever, Canadian taxpayers need relief. With carbon tax burdens declining around the globe during the COVID-19 crisis, walking back the recent carbon tax hike should be a no-brainer for our federal government