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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
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
Health care wait times cost Canadians more than $1 billion in lost productivity By | March 24, 2014
Without sensible health policy reform, waiting will remain a defining characteristic of the Canadian health care experience
Premier Wynne: You Are Freezing the Wrong Wages! By Candice Malcolm | March 21, 2014
The proposed MPP wage freeze will save taxpayers $390,550 per year
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Weaker loonie hurts Canadians more than it helps By | March 20, 2014
“It’s a myth that devaluation of the Canadian dollar broadly stimulates the economy and leads to prosperity
The Real Problem with Public-Sector Pension Plans By | March 19, 2014
"The problem is not with the defined-benefit plans per se, it relates to the mispricing of their guarantees"
New Federal Finance Minister Urged to Cut Debt, EI Payroll Taxes, Simplify Tax Act By | March 19, 2014
EI Tax Rollback Urged for 2015 Budget – Up 28 Per Cent Since 2008
On the Economy, Justin Trudeau Needs to Fire His Coaches and Raise His Game By | March 19, 2014
Justin Trudeau needs to look beyond the failed playbook — and coaches — that once guided Dalton McGuinty and Jean Charest
Behind The Government’s Budget Spin By Colin Craig | March 18, 2014
Taxpayers need to be aware of the things they aren’t telling you about
Ontario burdened by more debt than California, taxpayers saddled with high interest payments By | March 18, 2014
Ontario is much deeper in debt than California, the poster child for fiscal irresponsibility