UncategorizedCaption Challenge: Special “We’ve Gone and Taken Our Jackets Off – Your Move, Economic Crisis!” EditionThe winner shall receive a $40-billion budgetary shortfall (Actual prize probably something nicer)
OttawaLook at us, we’re doing stuffIn case you’re wondering why various news outlets are currently festooned with photographs of the Prime Minister and various...
OttawaCarney likes the look of 2010. This year, not so much.BoC Governor: "Stimulus is going to have an impact and it’s going to start to bring the job market back.”
GeneralConservatives, All-Bran and pizzaTowards the end of the Tories’ first caucus meeting following the holiday break, staffers were seen bringing hot pizzas into the...
OttawaBruce Stanton Maverick WatchThe Conservative MP for Simcoe North submits a 16-page report to the finance minister on his consultations with constituents. In...
OttawaJim Flaherty will hear you nowThe Finance Minister, speaking to a crowd of 450 at the Park Royal Shopping Centre in Vancouver. "These are extraordinary times...
OttawaIt is not a cutting exercise, except that it wasJim Flaherty, the other day. "This budget is not about reducing or cutting spending ... This is not a cutting exercise. We are in...
CanadaThe case for stimulus through city spending’Infrastructure is twice as effective in short-term stimulus than tax cuts’
OttawaManaging expectations the Jim Flaherty way!Fresh off the Canadian Press newswire (emphasis added): First thought: Wow, the folks at the Fraser Institute must be wondering...
OttawaLowered expectationsFrom the Globe’s interesting take on Jim Flaherty’s current situation: “Thanks for having the courage to do this,” the last...