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Who was Barbara Mitchell?

Avril 28, 2016 3:00AM

Game of Thrones—with little economic competition, growth found only in conquest

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You get technological breakthroughs when trying to solve problems, often problems found in previous technology.

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the arts, economic principles

Avril 27, 2016 10:41AM

Electric cars still zapping taxpayers in Ontario

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Kenneth P. Green

Ontario government subsidized buyers of the $1.1 million Porsche 918 Spyder.

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electric cars, electric car subsidies, ontario green energy act, kathleen wynne, hybrid cars

Avril 27, 2016 3:00AM

Canada’s real environmental record (not what some would have you think)

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Kenneth P. Green

Concentrations of two of the air pollutants of greatest concern have generally decreased across Canada since 2000.

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greenhouse gas emissions, GHG emissions, canada's environmental record, economics and the environment, ontario energy policy

Avril 26, 2016 1:18PM

Why do other universal health-care countries have shorter wait times than Canada?

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Long wait times costs Canadians time and money.

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health care wait times, canadian wait times for medical treatment, health care costs, universal access health care, private sector

Avril 26, 2016 3:00AM

Canada’s pharma sector can benefit from America’s terrible corporate tax code

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U.S. regulations blew up "inversion" merger between Pfizer and Allergan.

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Canadian Perspectives on the U.S.

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American pharmaceutical prices, cross-border pharmacies, inversion, corporate captial tax, corporate income taxes

Avril 25, 2016 12:52PM

Budget taxes Newfoundlanders without meaningfully addressing government spending

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Charles Lammam, Hugh MacIntyre

Personal income tax rates are being hiked across the board, between one and three percentage points depending on income.

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Government Spending & Taxes

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debt and deficit, newfoundland & labrador budget, fisheries

Avril 25, 2016 3:00AM

Actually, Canada has a great deal of economic mobility

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Charles Lammam, Hugh MacIntyre

The recent federal budget paints a gloomy misleading picture of Canadian society.

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income inequality canada, income mobility in canada, Justin Trudeau, federal budget, government programs

Avril 22, 2016 11:24AM

Despite relatively robust economy, Manitoba in deficit since 2009

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Livio Di Matteo

Manitoba’s newly-elected government faces some important fiscal challenges.

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Government Spending & Taxes

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brian pallister, manitoba, debt and deficit, deficit spending

Avril 22, 2016 9:17AM

Defunding independent schools in Alberta will increase taxpayer costs, diminish school choice for parents

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Public schools in Alberta require more than $13,000 taxpayer dollars to educate a student while independent and charter schools require under $5,300 and $9,000 respectively.

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alberta education, independent schools, rachel notley, charter schools

Avril 21, 2016 12:50PM

Netflix cowboys, liberty and bourgeois virtues

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Jonathan Fortier

In recent decades, the television sitcom has reflected the massive shift towards urban life.

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the arts, government regulation