Budget

As Ned Franks notes , Parliament’s 119-day sitting last year was in line with a steady decline that goes back decades—see my...

Need for growth and jobs trumps ending stimulus spending

The Bloc Quebecois voted last night with the Conservative side to pass the government’s latest budget implementation bill. Two...

The most humorous aspect of this story is: A) That the Finance Minister who once said "we cannot ask Canadians to tighten their...

Brits are using credit like never before. Whatever happened to frugality?

Brad Lavigne, the NDP’s executive director, last week . "If a leader loses momentum [Monday], they’ll have a hard time gaining it...

How does a government that once promised never to run a deficit justify being in the red?

Bruce Anderson considers how the deficit debate in the United States will impact the discussion here.

COYNE: Iggy offers no alternatives

Stephen Gordon sorts through the corporate tax cut rhetoric.