government shutdown

Opinion: The impact of a shutdown depends on whether employees are paid their foregone wages after it ends—and how long it lasts

There is a lot of misdirected rage in America, but the politics of anger works. And we’re starting to see it in Canada.

Short-term deal leaves GOP internally divided, externally damaged

There is a tendency to assume that any negative public backlash against the government shutdown, to the extent that it hurts...

Unless it’s a pox on both their houses

Debt ceiling crisis could be far worse than a shutdown

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the government shutdown over a law that was passed in 2010 was that many Republican lawmakers...

... what happens to Canada’s economy?

Legislative insanity is bad, but chaos has its advantages

Sure, the U.S. government shutdown means 800,000 federal workers are off the job and thousands of parks and tourist sites across...