UncategorizedThe donut speech, fact checked (IV)Erin Weir goes to Tim Hortons’ regulatory filings in search of the motivating factors of corporate tax breaks.
UncategorizedThe donut speech, fact checked (III)Back, once more , to the matter of the Prime Minister, Tim Hortons and the donut speech. Here is how an item posted on the...
UncategorizedThe donut speech, fact checked (II)In addition to his letter to the editor , Erin Weir blogs a more expansive take on the Prime Minister’s donut speech. There he...
UncategorizedThe Commons: Economic pornJohn Baird addresses the pressing questions: Where’s the PM? Where are those pictures of the PM? And where does that stimulus money go?
UncategorizedThe donut speech, fact checkedErin Weir, an economist with the United Steelworkers, writes in to the Toronto Star to quibble slightly with the apparent joy...
UncategorizedThe donut speechSusan Delacourt is taking a day off her duties at the Star each week to pursue a study of politics and consumerism. Suffice it to...
UncategorizedDonuts, hockey, tax cuts and AfghanistanThe quintessential speech of Stephen Harper’s premiership?
UncategorizedTomorrow in places that apparently actually existThe Prime Minister’s itinerary for tomorrow. No really. The Globe and Sun suggest the Prime Minister will be skipping Barack...
UncategorizedJust visitingBack now from a week in New York, arriving there just in time to see Tim Hortons take up residence in the urban, cosmopolitan...
CultureWhat a U.S. food expert learned at Tim Hortons and Swiss ChaletThe author of ’The End of Overeating’ on Canadian portions sizes and poutine