Canadian News, Opinion

Corporate Welfare to Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment By | October 3, 2013
​Group to receive $500,000 of taxpayer money in 2016 for the NBA All-Star Game
Defined Benefit Pensions - The math does not work By | October 2, 2013
Get Ready to Pay Billions for Hydro
Government Housing Worth A Review By Colin Craig | October 1, 2013
If there aren’t any low-income people waiting to rent such units (eg. the units could be in a small community) then the government should look at selling the units
Some Big Incomes In Social Housing By Colin Craig | September 24, 2013
FOI documents show some big income earners living in social housing - two tenants earning over $130,000, six tenants earning $80,000-99,000 and 140 earning $50,000-70,999
Are High Taxes Shutting Canada’s NHL Teams out of Stanley Cup Contention? By | September 23, 2013
Leafs would have cap space to sign RFA Cody Franson and an additional star player if they operated in a lower tax environment like B.C. or Alberta
Free Ontario’s Buses By | September 16, 2013
An archaic system of regulations
Revoke Pensions for Crooked Politicians By Gregory Thomas | September 16, 2013
Former Liberal MP and senator Raymond Lavigne
The Pension System Needs To Change By | September 16, 2013
Public Sector Pension system, Massive inequity has to end
Putin’s take not all wrong By | September 14, 2013
I think Vladimir Putin’s dim view of American exceptionalism can be forgiven in light of the understanding that was given him by President Obama
Canadian Taxpayers Federation to Award Highest Honour to Fmr Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page By | September 13, 2013
Kevin Page became Canada’s first Parliamentary Budget Officer in 2008
Time to Sink BC Ferries’ Gravy Boat By Jordan Bateman | September 12, 2013
New CTF petition calls for executive compensation cuts and greater accountability
Include Taxpayer Risk in Costs of Public Sector Projects By | September 12, 2013
Discounting a project's cash flows at an essentially risk-free rate is often justified by 'the virtually unlimited taxing power of the Crown
$224 Million Mystery By Colin Craig | September 11, 2013
Manitoba Hydro has been paying for consultants, lawyers and all kinds of other expenses racked up by aboriginal reserves during the "negotiations."
Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on Anniversary of 9/11, National Day of Service By | September 11, 2013
Today, our country remembers the thousands of lives lost
Reality Check on Fiscal Update By Candice Malcolm | September 10, 2013
"One-time savings and modest reductions from their own predictions are not worth celebrating,"
EI Tax Freeze Means Workers Will Keep Getting Plucked Until at Least 2017 By Gregory Thomas | September 9, 2013
Government expects EI surplus to rise until 2017
CTF Does the Math of Province’s Deficit By Derek Fildebrandt | September 9, 2013
Grab a bailer, Alberta, this flood isn't over yet
True North Log Homes: Builders of Exceptional Luxury and Advanced Eco-Technology By | September 8, 2013
True North Log Homes provides customers with true dream homes
Hydro’s Not-So “Blacked Out” Documents Confirm CTF Concerns By Colin Craig | September 4, 2013
$250/hr+ consultants, an attempt to expense "laundry services" and a $75k "signing ceremony"
Can Google and Internet Search Data Predict Recessions? By | September 4, 2013
Canada’s Economy is Accelerating Steadily, MLI’s Economic Indicator Shows By | August 30, 2013
Housing drives composite leading index, which signals strengthening economic growth in the second half of the year
Liberal Spending Driving Us To The Brink By | August 29, 2013
Wind energy, driver's licences, eHealth and ORNGE,
Government Sick Days Needs Prescription of Accountability By Jordan Bateman | August 29, 2013
It seems many government employees have no idea what it’s like in the real world, where sick days are taken only when you’re actually sick
Labour Day Reality Check: Federal Employees Take Nearly 3X More Sick Days than the Rest of Us By Gregory Thomas | August 29, 2013
Federal employees take 17.9 sick days per year
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The West will Not Learn - Stay out of Syria – Stay out of Arab Lands By | August 29, 2013
The World is in the Age of a Resurgent Islam
Alberta Needs a Plan to Pay for Massive Flood Price Tag By Derek Fildebrandt | August 28, 2013
Alberta has massive bills and no money in the bank to pay for it
Ontario Needs to Gear Up for Major Pension Reform Challenges By | August 28, 2013
With respect to sparse pension coverage, Ontario should enact the federal Pooled Registered Pension Plan
CTF Releases Fiscal Flood Plan Report By Derek Fildebrandt | August 27, 2013
Deficit to grow from $5.1 billion to $8.1 billion for 2013-14
Another Unfair Situation For Taxpayers By Colin Craig | August 27, 2013
Right now taxpayers have to pay a fortune for the pension plan provincial judges in Saskatchewan receive
The Truth About Putin’s Russia By | August 25, 2013
It offers nothing the United States can model itself after