Canadian News, Opinion

The Unintended Consequences of Canada’s Equalization Program By Ben Eisen | May 18, 2011
How Canada’s equalization program has some provinces more equal than others
Cost of eHealth Boondoggle Continues to Grow for Ontario Families By | May 18, 2011
Architects of the billion-dollar eHealth boondoggle get rewarded with merit pay and bonuses
To fix the HST, Premier Clark should follow Stephen Harper, not Gordon Campbell and not Kim Campbell By | May 18, 2011
Cut the HST for everyone and make a bold, smart break with the past.
Clearwater showcases energy recovery technology for Canadian Navy and Hyundai By | May 18, 2011
The partnership between Thermalfrost and Clearwater
Young Toronto “Champ” Returns as Junior Counsellor at War Amps 2011 Ontario Seminar By | May 18, 2011
William Goessaert, 20, of Toronto
Taxpayer Friendly NHL Return By Colin Craig, Prarie Director | May 17, 2011
Reducing the tax would help the entire business community, including a new NHL team; which would also have a payroll over $1.25 million.
The End of Taxi Regulation By David Seymour | May 17, 2011
Why GPS-enabled smartphones will send traditional taxi regulation the way of the dodo
There is no conspiracy around high gas prices By Todd Hirsch | May 16, 2011
Retail gasoline is a complex market. Multiple factors are always at play, and price fluctuations are not really that much more erratic than they are in many other markets
I Miss the Separatists By | May 15, 2011
Quebec and the NDP are a match made in heaven – or hell if you’re a freedom loving Canadian
Open Letter Response to CFIB from OECTA By Rob Viles | May 12, 2011
Union Membership, partisan campaigns, bankrupting Ontario
Sayonara Subsidized Christmas Shopping By Colin Craig, Prarie Director | May 9, 2011
Employees who were “extremely behind” in their work got to go Christmas shopping on the clock...and later paid time and a half on the weekend to catch up
My Open Letter to Stephen Harper By | May 7, 2011
Promoting freedom isn't so much about ideology as it is about doing what's right, about standing up for citizens
Teachers Union Entitlements Are Unaffordable By | May 6, 2011
It’s time for a new system that puts students, top teachers and taxpayers first.
Signs of Liberal demise By | May 6, 2011
Signs to look for to ascertain if the Liberal Party is most sincerely dead
CTF Calls on Leaders to Cooperate on Gold-Plated MP Pension Plan Reform By | May 6, 2011
“Let’s start something new today. Enact a specific, concrete action in cooperation with other parties that demonstrates sincerity of purpose and commitment to do politics different in our great country.”
A Day in April 1945 -North to Groningen By | May 5, 2011
The Liberation of Assen
Time to Re-evaluate MP Pensions By Colin Craig | May 3, 2011
Lucrative MP pension plans, Severance packages
MPs Cash in on $116 million in Pension & Severance Bonanza By | May 3, 2011
The CTF supports a reasonable pension plan and severance package for MPs commensurate with norms in the private sector
The Liberal Party of Canada: RIP By | May 3, 2011
Michael Ignatieff killed the Liberal Party of Canada, the country’s number one political party
Come on, Jack, give voters the naked truth on that 1996 “massage” By | April 30, 2011
Self-righteous Jack Layton has been lambasting his opponents for years over their particular missteps or character flaws
My best guess By | April 29, 2011
Canadian election
Self-indulgent Media Obama-izing Smiling Jack By | April 29, 2011
Canada’s media outlets are trying to do for socialist Jack Layton, what the American media did for Barack Obama 2008. Get him elected
Ontario Govt. Buying Wind Energy at 10x Market Rate - and Dumping it on Neighbouring Jurisdictions By John Laforet | April 28, 2011
Ontario’s Green Energy Plan amounts to a ‘pump and dump’ corporate welfare transaction for wind developers and paid for by Ontarians
Why Low-Income Families Face High Tax Rates By | April 27, 2011
Measuring the Tax System’s Impact on Take-Home Pay:
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Looks just like a message from Obama, but it’s Michael Ignatieff By | April 27, 2011
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Over half of Canadians Report Being Better off financially today than before the recession By | April 27, 2011
Report examines Canadian's behaviour and outlook post-recession and finds the housing market is key factor driving economic optimism
Twitterers beware By | April 23, 2011
Plan to defy Canada's election law by posting real-time voting results on election night
One Year Later McGuinty Needs To Take Sex Ed For Six Year Olds Off The Table By | April 21, 2011
Ontario PC Caucus forced Dalton McGuinty to backtrack on his new sex-ed curriculum
How Much More Will Families in Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington have to pay? By | April 21, 2011
Dalton McGuinty’s Expensive Energy Experiments:
Liberals must tell voters how their coalition would work By | April 20, 2011
Michael Ignatieff is now saying he is prepared to talk to both about forming a government in the event the Conservatives do not win a majority?