Economy
An open letter to Jeffrey Simpson
Jennifer Robson responds to the Globe and Mail columnist’s charge against Carleton University’s Masters of Political Management
Jennifer Robson
Jennifer Robson is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University's Kroeger College, where she teaches public policy and political management. Prior to Carleton, she spent 15 years working in government and the voluntary sector.
Economic analysis
CPP reform? Here we go, again.
The Tories’ about-face on CPP reform may be driven by politics, but we should welcome the fact that it’s back on the agenda
Economic analysis
Budget 2015: What if you’re not ’Henry and Cathy’ or ’Elizabeth’?
Jennifer Robson looks at what the budget means for low- and middle-income families
Economic analysis
Stuff Joe Oliver says
Here’s how the numbers stack up against some of Joe Oliver’s soundbites from his recent speech on balanced budgets
Economic analysis
A brief history of Canadian federal budgets
Itching for budget day on April 21? Here’s a look at the evolution of federal budgets in Canada
Economic analysis
TFSAs (as they are today) aren’t terrible
We make assumptions about low and modest-income Canadians, and spend too much time worrying about people gaming the system
Ottawa
The question of loyalty by political staffers isn’t cut and dried
The privilege of serving on a campaign bus doesn’t mean you won’t be tossed under it, writes Jennifer Robson
Economic analysis
Why I’m not going to give at the cash register in 2015
Jennifer Robson on the badly needed overhaul in checkout charity
Economic analysis
Explained: How the Harper government put spending on ice
If you’re in government and want to restrain your own spending, you make it harder to move money out the door
Economic analysis
Revisiting the Conservatives’ tax cut and child benefit packages
Changing ideas about taxation have impacts that last much longer than any election cycle