Budget

Who will measure the savings achieved by cutting auditors’ jobs?

Bill Curry reports on cuts at Public Works.

Chris Cobb finds a 20% cut to the budget of the National Research Council.

The hunt for the government’s mysterious spending cuts continues

Will it be hard to cut $4 billion? Andrew Coyne gives it a try.

On Wednesday, Tony Clement raised the option of user fees in a speech to members of the public service. Yesterday, in...

Stephen Harper is on record as saying that, so long as he’s Prime Minister, "there will be no new taxes." Yesterday, Mr. Harper’s...

How one defines essentiality is at the root of the discussion of spending cuts

The era of decorum achieves total farce

Stephen Gordon sees yesterday’s budget as an implicit acknowledgement of a structural deficit.