Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadians tend to apply some odd words and phrases to our politics and they often make no sense
Tag: Ontario politics
Ontarians footing the bill for election attack ads
Reading Time: 3 minutes The taxpayer-funded gravy train that just keeps on giving
Ontario taxpayers set to choose from three unpalatable options
Reading Time: 3 minutes All three major party leaders are promising to run record-high deficits
On fiscal prudence and tax relief, Ford lays an egg
Reading Time: 3 minutes No concrete plan to balance the books and no tax relief for middle-class families
Ontario’s bloated cabinet is the elephant in the room
Reading Time: 3 minutes His commitment to a smaller cabinet was short-lived. He has allowed the size of his cabinet to balloon to 29 spots from his original 21
Fat-cat Ontario politicians shouldn’t laugh off taking pay cuts
Reading Time: 3 minutes The least elected officials could do is to take a pay cut to show some solidarity with the suffering taxpayers
History shows a path to resolve lobster fisheries dispute
Reading Time: 4 minutes Non-Indigenous fishers in Atlantic region need not be worried that Indigenous rights will come at the expense of conservation
Ontario government must avoid fiscal mistakes of its predecessors
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government must craft a credible short-term plan to eliminate the budget deficit rather than continuing the bipartisan habit of kicking the can down the road
Ontario must quickly balance budget in wake of pandemic
Reading Time: 3 minutes Deficits might seem like an abstract problem for our future selves (or future generations) but in Ontario, this simply isn’t the case
Higher electricity costs disproportionally hurt southwestern Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes The suffering of those in the region should be a cautionary tale about how higher energy prices lower competitiveness and damage economic prosperity