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Re: Liberals are considering a universal basic income, but economists have tough questions for its proponents, Stuart Thomson, Sep 16, 2020    Providing a... more
Keynes
Argentina
Massive deficit to be revealed today begins new era of debt for Canada, Kait Bolongaro, Jul 08, 2020 The federal government need not agonize over deficits,... more
Japan
IMF
debt-to-GDP ratio
Last week the Ford government released their “preferred route” for a new 400-series highway. The proposed Highway 413 will carve up the Greenbelt. It runs... more
Agriculture
climate change
ONPoli
Last week, I made two alarming discoveries: The federal government has suspended water quality monitoring since the beginning of the pandemic. The federal... more
climate change
cdnpoli
environmental justice
Oil sands
If an election were held right now, the Liberal Party (36%) to lead nationally - with a five point lead over the Conservatives (31%) – but Liberal support has... more
cdnpoli
we charity
covid-19
Premier Ford has never stopped looking for ways to carve up more farmland and greenspace for deep-pocketed land speculators. After trying multiple times to get... more
ONPoli
Development
Housing
Agriculture
When I pronounced during a news conference in Ottawa on Wednesday that “Oil is dead,” I expected neither surprise nor outrage. I thought I was just pointing... more
climate change
Oil
cdnpoli
covid-19
Re: Mayor Kennedy Stewart looking for breakthrough year in 2020, Mike Howell, JANUARY 22, 2020 There is only one taxpayer, so the saying goes, but more... more
Housing
Transit
deficits
Re:  Liberals move forward on promised income tax cut, with first phase to start in January, Brian Platt, December 9, 2019   How is it that despite the... more
Bank of Canada
Modern Monetary Theory
Equality in Transit has come to a cross road with the #ParaParity campaign. Riders using Para Transpo are starting to speak up. Simple, we had enough! The... more
Para Transpo OC Transpo #ParaParity City of Ottawa
One man put it this way. “We voted strategically last time and, with 32 Liberal seats in Atlantic Canada we did not get a single cabinet minister, and our... more
cdnpoli
climate change
electoral reform
elxn43
      When war clouds followed the Great Depression, the revenue-starved Canadian government began purchasing trucks, planes and tanks and also hired over one... more
deficits
Debt
Bank of Canada
war finance
financial crisis
functional finance
After a summer of not feeling well and a myriad of medical tests, I received the devastating diagnosis of ovarian cancer. I am most grateful to the dedicated... more
 
September 23, 2019
"This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You... more
climate change
Greta Thunberg
United Nations
climate strikes
fridaysforfuture
futurerising
On August 12th, the Leaders’ Debates Commission informed People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier that he would not be invited to the federal party... more
Maxime Bernier
peoples party
PPC
Leaders Debates
debates commission

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