Canadian News, Opinion

Open Letter to Julie Payette By | September 26, 2017
Canada’s newly elevated Governor General of Canada
Wynne needs to pay attention to Ontario business for NAFTA negotiations to succeed By -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | September 26, 2017
If Wynne is going to defend free trade and stand up for Ontario businesses and manufacturers, she’s going to have to start listening to them first
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More than 80 per cent of middle-income families face higher federal income taxes By | September 26, 2017
Measuring the Impact of Federal Personal Income Tax Changes on Middle Income Canadian Families
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Whatever happened to ...Omar Khadr? By | September 25, 2017
Multi-million dollar payments to terrorists who kill American soldiers and an absence of border controls go to the very heart of what Canada is as a country
CTF study: Who pays Canada’s income tax bill? By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | September 25, 2017
• Those with incomes over $100,000 are 8.4% of all tax filers and pay almost 52% of all federal income tax
• As a percentage of the economy, Canadian taxes and fees were lower under Pierre Trudeau
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Poll: Over 40 percent of Canadians think science is “a matter of opinion” By | September 20, 2017
It is hard to believe that 10 percent of those polled do not think celebrities are a good source of scientific facts but comedians somehow are
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Canada one of highest spenders among universal health-care countries, but ranks near bottom on numbe By | September 20, 2017
Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries
Asylum seekers pour into Canada from the US By -- Circa | September 20, 2017
Thousands of Haitian immigrants flee to Canada from the U.S.
Stagnant Ontario Wages Should Come As No Shock To Kathleen Wynne By -- Christine Van Geyn, CTF Ontario Director | September 20, 2017
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Farmers are already cutting emissions - why punish them with carbon taxes? By Todd MacKay, Prairie Director and Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | September 20, 2017
Government is fully aware that a carbon tax will harm farmers without impacting climate change
THE LAW IS NOT MEANT TO PREVENT ACCOUNTABILITY By | September 19, 2017
"I find these actions of Tay Valley Council extremely disappointing"
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Ontario’s $15 minimum wage threatens jobs for young people and low-skilled workers province-wi By | September 19, 2017
Ontario Enters Uncharted Waters with a $15 Minimum Wage
CTF to Morneau: back off your small business tax hikes By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | September 18, 2017
• Airplane banner greets MPs as they return to Parliament
• Banner urges Minister Morneau to back off his harmful small business tax hikes
Taxpayers give hard no to healthcare tax proposal By | September 14, 2017
Between a proposed carbon tax and a new so-called healthcare tax, Manitoba taxpayers’ wallets could take a real beating from this government
Judge inundated with 100s of letters of support, decides against further jail time for Mary Wagner By | September 12, 2017
Prisoner of Conscience Mary Wagner
Foreign Direct Investment in Canada: Who’s favoured, who’s frowned upon? By | September 12, 2017
Majorities say Canada should encourage investment from UK, EU, US, discourage from China
Canadian govt. launches immigration outreach program…to tell illegals in US not to come to Canada By | September 9, 2017
Thick with rich, delicious, irony
Once-powerful Ontario now a fiscal laggard in Canada; per-person government debt set to eclipse Queb By | September 7, 2017
Canada’s Past Fiscal Leaders Are Now Fiscal Laggards: An Analysis of 2017 Provincial Budgets
Niverville MRI proposal illuminates critics’ lack of logic By -- Todd MacKay – CTF Prairie Director | September 6, 2017
Not everyone is opposed to Niverville
The Trudeau Liberals have a transparency problem By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | September 1, 2017
It's easy to talk a big game about transparency when you're in opposition. But the real test comes once you have the power to implement your commitments. On the transparency front, the Trudeau government's actions simply do not match their words
Half of Canadians say their country is ‘too generous’ toward illegal border crossers By | September 1, 2017
57 per cent disapprove of the federal government's handling of this summer's surge in asylum seekers
Ontario’s labour market ranks among worst in North America; trails Michigan in job-creation By | August 31, 2017
Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States
Labour Day Reality Check: Government employees take 65% more sick days than private sector By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | August 30, 2017
• Government employees take an average of 11.2 days per year, while private sector employees take 6.8 days per year< br />• Statistics Canada data shows substantial differences by province and level of government
What’s in a name? Call to remove John A. MacDonald’s from schools meets firm opposition By | August 29, 2017
Most say a person’s entire life & principal legacy should determine if they’re publicly memorialized
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Trudeau won’t adopt Scheer’s plan to control the border By | August 29, 2017
Trudeau will keep making nonsensical statements, the media will continue to ignore the practical suggestion made by Scheer and the illegals will just keep coming. There is no end in sight
Never mind name-changing: For Indians and Inuit the reality is now By | August 27, 2017
Aboriginals I talk to feel let down to the antipodes. Never mind name-changing. There’s real history unfolding, and it sickens me
Five Biggest Data Companies Like Oil Barrons By | August 26, 2017
'Data is the new oil': Your personal information is now the world's most valuable commodity
Taxes—not housing and basic necessities—are largest Canadian household expense By | August 24, 2017
Canadian Consumer Tax Index
Bill Morneau’s attack on the middle class By -- Aaron Wudrick, Federal Director | August 23, 2017
The victims will be the very people this government claims it is trying to help: mom and pop operations in small towns across the country, including farmers, mechanics and electricians
You don’t have to be fascist to oppose immigration By | August 22, 2017
In sum, I oppose immigration because we need first to look after our own.