How much higher will the deficit be this year: $7 billion or $5 billion?
Econowatch explains why you’re seeing conflicting headlines
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Jim Flaherty
Jim Flaherty vs. The deficit
The New Democrats and Liberals are unimpressed with the Finance Minister’s economic update. And Jim Flaherty faces the possibility...
’In the medium term’
The prepared text of Jim Flaherty’s speech in Fredericton is here . The economic update is here . With the latest "adjustment for...
Why isn’t the fall economic update delivered to the House?
Jim Flaherty will apparently deliver his fall economic update to a luncheon crowd in Fredericton tomorrow. Last year, he delivered...
How the deficit is being eliminated
The Parliamentary Budget Officer hasn’t received enough information to do a full analysis, but he says it seems like government...
’Unbelievable, unreliable and incredible’
Scott Clark and Peter DeVries review the Auditor General’s recommendations on fiscal sustainability .
Owning the farce
While the New Democrats continue to try to shame Conservative backbenchers—see Olivia Chow’s statement on Monday and Niki...
The Commons: Thomas Mulcair and Stephen Harper play charades
The Scene. What does it mean to act? What is change? What does one do when one takes something and makes it somehow smaller? How...
What does Parliament know about what the government is doing? And what does the government know about what the government is doing?
Jason Fekete reviews the auditor general’s findings . Colin Horgan places this in the context of the Harper government’s standoff...
What students are talking about today (October 22nd edition)
A pipeline protest, a really bad cartoon & black cats