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Laughable $5,000 fine for shredding FOI documents

The proposed MPP wage freeze will save taxpayers $390,550 per year

EI Tax Rollback Urged for 2015 Budget – Up 28 Per Cent Since 2008

Justin Trudeau needs to look beyond the failed playbook — and coaches — that once guided Dalton McGuinty and Jean Charest

Taxpayers need to be aware of the things they aren’t telling you about

NDP has propped up this tax-and-spend government up for the past two budgets, and allowed the government to grow the debt by nearly $40 billion since the last election

Lifetime Achievement – The Senate of Canada, after sober second thought

The waste awards are gilded pig statuettes awarded in four categories; local waste, provincial waste, federal waste and lifetime achievement

Ontario's Healthy Menu Program is a Disaster for School Cafeterias: Forget about overweight students, the weight of our government is the real problem in Ontario

Time for the Prime Minister to deliver on his election promise and deliver tax cuts and bigger paycheques to Canadians

The challenge, between budget 2014 and budget 2015, is get federal politicians of all stripes to put hard-pressed, long-suffering taxpaying Canadian households first.

The Protecting Taxpayers and Revoking Pensions of Convicted Politicians Act

While the Wall government’s inactivity on this issue has been puzzling, the solutions are not so complex

Freedom of Information Act

Ontario families are nickel-and-dimed by their government with higher taxes, increased premiums, new user-fees and soaring energy rates

MPs and Senators are still operating in the dark ages when it comes to accountability. They like it in the dark just fine

Young people – the very people tobacco laws are designed to protect – are some of the top customers in the contraband market

CTF Releases Joint Paper with U.S.-based Reason Foundation

First-time charitable donors get higher tax breaks

The average payrolls cost for a single federal government staffer have gone from $86,000 when the Conservatives took office in 2006 to $114,000 last year

“Today’s announcement in Alberta highlights just how disappointing the Harper government has handled this issue federally,

Ontario residents are far less likely to be eligible for EI payments, and yet Ontario taxpayers pay the brunt of EI taxes

The Wynne government should think about the people who suffer the most from irresponsible government decisions

Ontario's Long Term Energy Plan Falls Short

Fat Taxes Make Governments Fat November 28, 2013
Food taxes do not affect obesity rates, Disproportionately hurt lower-income Canadians, Massive new government revenue grab, Intrusion into personal choice

Wedding-related expense at Red River College not appropriate, Minister Allum needs to disclose amount, shake up board

CTF releases new report debunking claims made by proponents of food and sugar taxes

Lower recycling costs and less waste is a double win for taxpayers concerned with the environment

The EI Ripoff November 21, 2013
Scrap the pork-barreling Employment Insurance system

Ottawa is using Employment Insurance as a cash cow