Flaherty’s non-negotiable terms fit health spending reality [UPDATED]Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s decision to lay down the law, rather than open up negotiations, on health care transfers from the...
Crank yankersThe Kitchener-Waterloo Record traces mischievous calls made during the election to the Conservative party. Numerous complaints...
What the Conservatives promisedThe new health transfer model apparently comes with no strings attached . Like the six percent promise, that seems at odds with...
What Jim Flaherty saidAfter the Liberals and Conservatives exchanged campaign promises in April, Jim Flaherty was interviewed by Kathleen Petty on CBC...
Harper’s flat-tire federalismThe PM will spend ever more money on jets and jails, while taxing less than any federal government has since the 1960s
’What the federal government campaigned on’Ontario is unimpressed . The Globe counts Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI and Manitoba as standing, quite literally, in the...
Six percent, until it’s not six percentThe Finance Minister shows his hand on health transfers. The finance department release is here . See previously: What did the...
Lunch room monitorJoe Comartin would like to empower the Speaker somehow to better sort out the unruly. I was watching a session of Prime Minister’s...