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Doing Less with More: Why Quebec Lags in Access to Doctors By Claude E. Forget | May 27, 2014
Physician buy-in and a willingness to provide more primary care in the community as opposed to hospitals are key ingredients of a successful transition."
Ontario’s proposed pension plan would limit job, wage growth By | May 26, 2014
CFIB analysis points to similar impacts in Manitoba, PEI
High River, Alberta—The Cover-up Continues By | May 24, 2014
CSSA Commentary:
Kathleen Wynne Releases Her Plan to Eliminate 150,000 private sector jobs By | May 22, 2014
New, mandatory, payroll tax on Ontarians based on the Canada Pension Plan
Leaked Manitoba Hydro Document Confirms CTF Concerns By Colin Craig | May 22, 2014
"Manitoba Hydro refuses to disclose the details on the full $251 million in bills racked up by northern reserves over the past 14 years. What else are they hiding?”
Harper Government Should Scrap $5 Billion Montreal Champlain Bridge Project By Gregory Thomas | May 20, 2014
Quebec’s new government rejecting feds offer of free toll bridge – wants Canadian taxpayers to foot entire bill
Wait times for health care in Canada may be linked to increase in female death rates By Nadeem Esmail | May 20, 2014
“Deaths resulting from delayed medical care are unacceptable"
PCs Will Launch Judicial Inquiry Into Billion-Dollar Gas Plant Scandal By | May 18, 2014
Million Jobs Plan
CTF Calls on Harper to Scrap the 1.5 Cent per Litre Deficit Elimination’ Gas Tax and Tax-on-Ta By Gregory Thomas | May 15, 2014
16th Annual Gas Tax Honesty Day
Policies that raise energy costs limit economic growth in Canada By | May 15, 2014
Energy Abundance and Economic Growth
CTF Calculates Costs of Liberal’s Proposed Aviation Fuel Tax Hike By Ontario Director Candice Malcolm | May 15, 2014
Ontario Liberals propose a 148 per cent tax hike in Budget 2014
Canada’s anti-oil regulars By | May 13, 2014
Ezra visits the anti-Enbridge pipeline protest in Vancouver
Provincial Pension Bailout Costs Skyrocketing By | May 13, 2014
Civil service pension plan: 38% increase in amount taxpayers put in over last 3 years, Teachers' pension plan: 35% increase in amount taxpayers put in over last 3 years
Canadian governments dole out billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies to businesses and beyond By | May 13, 2014
Government Subsidies in Canada: A $684 Billion Price Tag
One Way or Another, Voters Will Force Politicians to Reform the Senate By Gregory Thomas | May 12, 2014
Canadians want a vote on getting rid of the Senate. They’ll vote for politicians who respect democracy as much as they respect the courts
The Billion Dollar Boondoggle Continues By | May 12, 2014
The Conservative Government is spending of $57 million a year and keeps a staff of 500 to run the Liberal Government's Firearms Program
Cross Border Price Regulation: Anti-Competition Policy? By | May 8, 2014
Report of the C.D. Howe Institute Competition Policy Council
Why Canadians Pay More than Americans for the Same Goods By | May 6, 2014
Government tariffs, supply management
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the Anniversary of the Red Friday Campaign Launch By | May 6, 2014
National Day of Honour
Tobacco Tax Hike in Ontario Despite Budget Failure By | May 6, 2014
Nearly two-thirds of the price of a carton of tobacco are taxes
Don’t Try to Read the Income Tax Act Before You File Your Taxes Tonight By | May 5, 2014
Current version of the Income Tax Act is 3,206 pages long--more than a million words, Harper government has added 631 pages since taking office in 2006
High electricity rates handicap Canadian businesses, U.S. businesses enjoy much lower rates By | May 5, 2014
The price disparity is due in part to the shift in many provinces away from coal-fired electric generation capacity and a failure to fully embrace natural gas-fired capacity
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
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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