Why the NDP’s exact plan for the corporate tax rate matters
If Mulcair keeps his promises on the budget and the corporate tax rate, it’s unclear how an NDP government could avoid spending cuts
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Stephen Gordon
Stephen Gordon is an economics professor at l’Université Laval in Quebec City. He started the blog Worthwhile Canadian Initiative in 2005 and has been blogging about economics ever since.
What you need to know ahead of the interest rate announcement
Are we in a recession? Will the Bank of Canada cut the interest rate again? Should it?
How the rich would benefit from the Liberals’ middle class tax cut
The NDP is right. Higher-income earners will benefit more from the Liberal tax cut plan than the middle class
The real story of government spending? Unprecedented discipline
Economist Stephen Gordon explains why the PM’s five-year plan held up—and why it’s so remarkable
The Quebec budget starts the structural reform the province needs
From fixing the ’bad habit’ of special tax credits to removing roadblocks to growth, the Quebec budget gets a lot of things right
Harper almost has his surplus
It seems pretty clear that the Conservatives will be able to announce a small surplus when it brings down its budget in April
Canada’s population is getting older faster than we thought
The bad news about our greying population in Statistics Canada’s revised labour force survey data
What beer and pizza can tell us about the impact of the oil crash
Don’t make this mistake when trying to analyze the effect of falling oil prices on the Canadian economy
The Harper agenda prevails, whether he wins or loses
By putting shrewd politics ahead of sound economics, the Prime Minister has guaranteed Canada will have austerity for years to come
Is Canada’s one per cent really in retreat?
Why has the income share at the top fallen in Canada, even as it continues to increase in the US?