Canadian News & Opinion

Are the blockades, across Canada, based on the involvement of the United Nations? By Elizabeth Marshall | February 17, 2020

Perhaps that is what the UN is attempting to do – create anarchy and create discrimination, after all doesn’t that lead to their own UN “job creation” security, when one considers the original mandate of the UN – to stop conflict and discrimination?

Trudeau criticized for shaking hands with Iranian foreign minister after deadly plane crash By News on the Net -- Global News | February 15, 2020

Taxpayers Federation reacts to Bombardier sale of commercial aircraft division By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | February 13, 2020

“We encourage the federal government to ensure the company repays all outstanding loans to Canadian taxpayers, and wish Bombardier all the best as it reinvents itself as a viable, profitable private enterprise.”

Fracking generally safe, includes manageable risks, can help reduce GHG emissions By Fraser Institute | February 13, 2020

Managing the Risks of Hydraulic Fracturing, 2020

Kangaroo Court Convicts Canada’s Fact-finder Senator By Colin Alexander | February 7, 2020

Cultural Genocide Hoax Seduces the Gullible

Coronavirus, Airbnb and Who the Real Racists Are By Arthur Weinreb | February 6, 2020

• Everyone who is afraid a Chinese person might have just come back from China and have the coronavirus is a blatant racist.
• Guns don’t kill people; Airbnb kills people

Only 9% of Ontario’s job-creation happened outside GTA and Ottawa since 2008 By Fraser Institute | February 6, 2020

Uneven Recovery: Job Creation in Ontario’s Urban Centres between 2008 and 2018

Justin Trudeau only prime minister in more than a century to increase per-person debt without facing By Fraser Institute | February 4, 2020

Examining Federal Debt in Canada by Prime Ministers Since Confederation, 2020

Five things Ontario government should do for taxpayers in 2020 By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | January 28, 2020

Lower hydro bills, Lower gas taxes, Balance the budget, End corporate welfare, Don’t cave in salary negotiations with government employees

Any province—including Alberta—has ability to mandate constitutional negotiations on equ By Fraser Institute | January 28, 2020

Refining Alberta’s Equalization Gambit

Top 10% of income-earners earned 34% of Canada’s total income—yet paid more than 54% of By Fraser Institute | January 23, 2020

Should Upper-Income Canadians Pay More Income Tax?

Taxpayers Federation delivers petition opposing taxpayer support for Duke and Duchess of Sussex By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | January 22, 2020

“The Queen has made clear that British taxpayers will no longer be supporting the Duke and Duchess,” noted Wudrick, “Prime Minister Trudeau owes it to ensure Canadian taxpayers receive similar respect.”

Canada remains only high-income universal health-care country to eschew private medical insurance By Fraser Institute | January 21, 2020

Royal Tab: Vast majority don’t want to pay costs associated with the Sussexes’ move to C By Angus Reid Institute | January 18, 2020

One-in-four Canadians say Royal Family is less relevant today, 41% say it has no relevance at all

Canada’s combined federal-provincial debt will reach $1.5 trillion in 2019/20, Ontario debt hi By Fraser Institute | January 16, 2020

The Growing Debt Burden for Canadians

CTF sounds the alarm: Ontario can’t afford more debt or higher taxes to keep teachers’ union bosses By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | January 15, 2020

Each one per cent raise that the government gives to its employees costs taxpayers $720 million

Taxpayers Federation launches petition opposing taxpayer support for Duke and Duchess of Sussex By Canadian Taxpayers Federation | January 14, 2020

Half of Canadians say crime is rising in their communities, as confidence in police, courts wanes By Angus Reid Institute | January 14, 2020

Percentage of Canadians who perceive an increase in crime up from 30% to 48% over past six years

Mark Carney Will Destroy Canada’s Economy and Alberta With it By Action Alberta | January 13, 2020

If Mark Carney succeeds Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister, as many expect, Western Canada must brace itself for much greater economic damage to its energy sector. If you think it is bad now, just watch what Carney will do!

Is the Flooding, in the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence, Ottawa River and tributaries of the Great Lakes a By Elizabeth Marshall | January 12, 2020

Question - what's more important - a human being and their life's work or a dandelion?

Taxpayers Federation slams $12,000 federal bureaucrat red-carpet gala By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | January 8, 2020

Trudeau government spending hits all-time high, including years of war and recession By Fraser Institute | January 7, 2020

Prime Ministers and Government Spending, 2020

Ontario can’t afford to capitulate (further) to teachers’ unions By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Jasmine Pickel, Interim CTF Ontario Director | January 7, 2020

The more we pay teachers, the bigger class sizes will be. Unions won’t acknowledge this trade-off, so let’s hope taxpayers will

Much of the sensationalism about CEO compensation based on myths and misperceptions By Fraser Institute | January 3, 2020

The Truth about CEO and Worker Compensation

What Ottawa gives other governments take away By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | December 30, 2019

It's encouraging that the Trudeau Liberals made a tax cut their first order of business after being re-elected

Will parents and government allow the Ontario Educational System to continue to fail society? By Elizabeth Marshall | December 29, 2019

Welcome to the “brave new world: metacognition for tiny tots,” and say good-bye to reality in education

CTF Releases New Year’s Tax Changes for 2020 By Canadian Taxpayers Federation -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | December 27, 2019

• Increase in basic personal amount will give most income earners a $138 tax reduction
• The increase in Canada Pension Plan premiums will cost up to an additional $97 per year
• Bracket creep remains a problem in several provinces

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS By Elizabeth Marshall | December 27, 2019

A Government Agency’s Shocking Plan to Save Taxpayers Money By Arthur Weinreb | December 20, 2019

If only more governments and government agencies worked like B.C. Transit. We would be so much better off

Amount Canadians donate to charity at a 20-year low By Fraser Institute | December 19, 2019

Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2019 Generosity Index