Fraser Institute misleads on costs of Canada Pension Plan
The Fraser Institute has released a new report purporting to show that the real cost of operating the Canada Pension Plan is $2 billion per year, or four times as...
Progressives and the future of the labour movement
Labour day is an appropriate time to reflect on the accomplishments of the labour movement -- and the challenges that lie ahead. There is increased recognition that strong unions were...
Where is Canada's (clean) energy strategy?
Premiers have been working on collaborative energy strategies in one form or another since 2007, and their energy conversation now looks like it’s poised to continue for another year. But despite its...
Ferguson: Not so far away
Picture this: it's about midnight, and two black men are walking up the street in their neighbourhood after enjoying a meal out. Up ahead in the distance, four young white...
Tax credits are not the way to boost innovation
There is a lot of talk about the need to build a “knowledge-based economy” if we are to retain and create good jobs in a world where production is shifting...
The decline of evidence-based law making
The old adage holds that law is like sausages, you don’t want to see them being made. The problem is, in making our federal criminal and correctional law, seeing how...
It's time to close Canada's digital divide
The Harper government recently unveiled its plan to invest millions of dollars over the next three years to expand Internet access. Comparing the plan to the creation of the national...
Stalled recovery takes shine off Harper's economic record
Editor's note: after releasing its July jobs report on Aug. 8 showing 200 jobs were created overall, Statistics Canada said on Aug. 12 it had made an unspecified error in the labour...
The dismal state of Canadian manufacturing
It is hardly news, but the scale of the manufacturing crisis in Canada continues to astound. Between 2002 and 2013, manufacturing employment fell by 557,000 jobs, meaning that one in...
Fiscal austerity and lost Canadian jobs
Bill Scarth is a highly respected mainstream Canadian economist at McMaster University. In a piece just published by the C.D. Howe Institute, a generally conservative think-tank, he argues that the...