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"The Government is planning on balanced budgets for the current and next five years, although given the downside risks, balanced...

The New York Times advocates prosecution for U.S. government officials who permitted or ordered torture of the prisoners at Abu...

Today brings a belated new tone of realism in high places about the state of the economy. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty—who...

Excerpts from actual recent letters to the editor of Maclean’s :

Three situations, selected not entirely at random. 1. The government releases an economic statement that includes plans to revoke...

In an important article in Foreign Affairs , Robert Gates, George W. Bush’s Mulligan defence secretary who is being kept on by...

Nearly three years after he became finance minister, Jim Flaherty will now begin seeking advice on economic matters from people...

You will perhaps already have spotted my article about Afghanistan from this week’s print edition. Later today there will be other...

BY ANDREW COYNE

In hindsight , the smartest thing Jim Flaherty said in the House when delivering the government’s fiscal update was this, a caveat...