Canadian News, Opinion

Canada’s National Temperature and Precipitation Farce By | May 3, 2014
How Environment Canada calculates scientifically rigorous national average climate variables is a mystery
Ontario Taking Cues From Greece By Candice Malcolm | May 1, 2014
Tax-and-Spend Budget Fails Taxpayers on Every Measure
Premier Wynne’s Sinking Ship By | May 1, 2014
Safe hands? Feels more like the cold hands of an undertaker
Canadians spend billions complying with personal income tax system By | April 30, 2014
“A simplified personal income tax system would be easier to understand and less expensive in time and money for Canadians to navigate
Taxpayers Take on Sousa By | April 29, 2014
Ontario has the seventh-largest sovereign debt load in the world
CTF Renews Call for 2015 Referendum on Abolishing the Senate By Gregory Thomas | April 25, 2014
There’s no place for the Senate in its current form in a modern democracy
Time to Rethink Canada’s Foreign Worker Program: C.D. Howe Institute By | April 24, 2014
Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada: Are They Really Filling Labour Shortages?
What Premier Wynne (or Somebody) Can Learn from Quebec’s New Premier, Philippe Couillard By Candice Malcolm and Gregory Thomas | April 24, 2014
Ontario keeps going deeper in the hole because Kathleen Wynne can’t seem to imagine, much less talk about tough choices
Calls to expand CPP and create Ontario pension program rely on misguided analysis By Philip Cross, Charles Lammam | April 24, 2014
One in four Canadians between 65 and 70 years old now remain in the workforce—an increase from roughly one in eight just 13 years ago
CTF busts myths at tax-time with Tax Me I’m Canadian! book By | April 23, 2014
Top 1% of taxpayers pay 20% of income taxes
CTF Launches BankruptingOntario.ca Ad Campaign By Candice Malcolm | April 22, 2014
New ad campaign launches in Finance Minister Charles Sousa’s riding
Air pollution declines as economic freedom rises By Joel Wood | April 22, 2014
Government regulation can alter incentives and hinder the ability of citizens to act
Obama gives Canada cold shoulder By | April 22, 2014
Obama waited 9 months before replacing the last US ambassador to Canada. The post was empty, and Obama just didn’t care
Southern Alberta’s 2013 Floods and Climate Change By | April 17, 2014
Far greater caution was warranted in the media before linking these two topics
Optimizing Economic Diplomacy on a Tight Budget By | April 16, 2014
Global Market Action Plan
C.D. Howe Institute’s Bill Robson Issues Statement on the Death of Jim Flaherty By William B.P. Robson | April 10, 2014
His death deprives Canada of an outstanding political and economic leader
Ottawa’s Swelling Hidden Pension Deficit Adds $120 Billion to Federal Debt By | April 9, 2014
"Using an economically meaningful fair market value estimate, Ottawa's unfunded liability at the end of the 2013 fiscal year was some $120 billion higher than reported,"
What if Alberta Were Treated the Same as Quebec? By | April 4, 2014
Quebec separatists are right about one thing: Canada’s system of federal handouts isn’t working for Canadians in Quebec, or anywhere else
An Open Letter to Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver By Gregory Thomas | April 3, 2014
Canada is on the edge of an historic choice
Providing First Nations with mineral rights may help ease uncertainty over Canadian mining developme By Dr. Kenneth P. Green | April 3, 2014
“The ownership of mineral rights is the biggest difference in mining between Canada and the United States and one of the greatest impediments to investment in Canada,”
Bureaucrat must step down in light of OPP Investigation: Ontario PCs By | April 2, 2014
Liberal gas plant scandal has cost Ontario’s taxpayers $1.1 billion
Unequal Pay for Equal Work: Fixing Ottawa’s Pay Problem: C.D. Howe Institute By | April 2, 2014
Defined-benefit pension plans
Each Canadian taxpayer owes $243,476 as total government liabilities reach $4.1 trillion By Charles Lammam | April 1, 2014
Canadian governments, especially in Ontario and Quebec, should make balanced budgets a priority to help ease the burden on taxpayers
Pray the RCMP don’t look after your town in a State of Emergency By | April 1, 2014
Everyone wants to know why the RCMP were ordered to take this action just in High River and not in any of the other thirty communities where states of emergency were declared during the flood
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Alleged Gas Plant Hacker Worked for Wynne Liberals Until Last Weekend By | March 31, 2014
Peter Faist was under contract to Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal Party until this past weekend
Alberta Government caught funding Pembina Institute By | March 27, 2014
Anti-oil Pembina
One of North America’s Oldest Auschwitz-Holocaust Survivors Dies at Nearly 107 By Brian Shifman | March 24, 2014
End of era: Oldest Holocaust survivors to have died in last year: Canadian Chana Szpilman Wallace, 106, Austrian Leopold Engleitner, 107, England’s Alice Herz-Sommer, 110.
CTF: New Transparency Bill in Ontario a Step in the Right Direction By Candice Malcolm | March 24, 2014
Laughable $5,000 fine for shredding FOI documents
Blown Budgets: Canada’s 2013 Fiscal Accountability Rankings By | March 24, 2014
Alberta and Saskatchewan showed the biggest overshoots among the provinces
Professional Protesters By | March 24, 2014
Keystone XL Pipeline