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Tag: NDP
Pipeline drama provides great politics, dubious policy
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is as close as Canadian politics gets to reality TV, with self-interested actors embroiled in conflict against a common enemy
Why Doug Ford should be Ontario’s next premier
Reading Time: 3 minutes Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals are finished. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath proposes a host of nightmarish left-wing changes
Ontarians must consider real health-care reform
Reading Time: 3 minutes All three major parties promise massive new spending as the provincial election nears. Better they look to Saskatchewan for ideas
B.C. closing doors to investment
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government policies mean the province is gaining an international reputation as a place where major projects can’t get done
No ray of sunshine in Alberta’s fiscal forecast
Reading Time: 3 minutes Rachel Notley seems intent on duplicating the deep-diving debt performance of former Ontario NDP leader Bob Rae
Alberta crushed beneath a growing mountain of debt
Reading Time: 3 minutes The slow path to balance means the province will continue adding debt by the bucketful for many years, penalizing future taxpayers
When property prices are a crime
Reading Time: 3 minutes The B.C. government balked at applying the foreign buyer tax to pre-sale contracts, so property flipping won’t slow down and it certainly won’t stop
Patrick Clown show notwithstanding, Ontario PCs favoured to win
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Ontario PCs have a legitimate chance to form the next provincial government, despite Patrick Brown’s distracting presence in the leadership race
Pipelines are crucial to national prosperity
Reading Time: 3 minutes The battle between Alberta and B.C. over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has broad implications for all Canadians