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P3 or No Federal Funding: A Third Option for Regina Wastewater? 25 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am
The Queen City’s water debate has boiled over since I last blogged about it. City Council decided to build a new wastewater-treatment facility as a public-private partnership (P3), but a group of conc...
Inflation Eats Up Three-Quarters of Wage Gains 23 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
Today, Statistics Canada reported an annual inflation rate of 1.3% for July. By comparison, it reports that the average hourly wage rose by 1.8% between July 2012 and July 2013. In other words, even ...
Blissful Ignorance: another Conference Board report on P3s 22 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
The Conference Board of Canada has produced another report on P3s, funded by the federal and provincial P3 agencies and the Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships (CCPPP). Unfortunately and...
Chrystia Freeland’s Liberal Use of Economic Platitudes 17 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein has interviewed the presumptive Liberal candidate in Toronto Centre, Chrystia Freeland, who declares, “I’m a capitalist red in tooth and claw.” To his credit, Klein...
Can Canadians Really “Buy Into” Mexico? 14 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
A recent investment advice column in the Globe and Mail (by David Milstead, August 3) highlighted some surprising facts about Mexico’s economy. The bullish author suggested Mexico will be a global eco...
What’s a Point of Corporate Tax Worth? 13 Aug 2013 | 06:55 pm
Tom Mulcair’s recently reiterated unwillingness to raise personal tax rates puts the spotlight on corporate taxes. But how much revenue is at stake? Three and a half years ago, I posted a fiscal brea...
Why Is Tom Mulcair Opposed to Tax Increases? 10 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
A recent online article suggests that Federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair is opposed to increasing federal tax rates. I find this quite surprising. According to the August 8 article: Mulcair seemed su...
Labour Force Numbers Worse Than They Look 9 Aug 2013 | 07:39 pm
Today’s Labour Force numbers provide more evidence that Canada’s labour market is still mired in a 3-year funk. Following one year of decent recovery from mid-2009 (the trough of the recession) to mi...
Austerity Bites? Public-Sector Implosion Hits Canada’s Job Market 9 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
Statistics Canada reported a loss of 39,000 jobs in July, even as Canada’s working-age population grew by 39,000. As a result, unemployment rose and many Canadians withdrew from the labour market alto...
Saskatchewan Budget Saved by Falling Loonie 9 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
Following last week’s troubling news about potash, the Saskatchewan government released its first-quarter financial report today. The headline seems to be “Oil Keeps Budget in Black”, with a forecast ...
