Paul Rutherford of the QMI Agency had a great take on things when he wrote that it’s a good thing Canadians are laser-focused on the Olympics right now, or else they might have been more alarmed by the last comments from Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. The budget boss laid out a frightening [...]
Today’s calendar holds three interesting things: 1. The players in the Canadian ABCP market are moving towards a final resolution; 2. The Bank of Canada is making an interest rate announcement this morning; and 3. Today is the beginning of the holiday season. So I thought it would be worth exploring the concept of moral [...]
For those who have not seen it, Monte appeared on BNN with Brian Lee Crowley and Buzz Hargrove to discuss Canada’s rising debt as well as the Canadian Taxpayer Federation’s new National Debt Clock. Last week the clock showed our national debt passing $500,000,000,000 dollars. You can check out their site on Canada’s here.
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As the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission continues to hold hearings on the future of Canadian broadcasting, I believe it is time for the tired regulator and its leadership to step aside.
When the CRTC was established by Parliament in 1968, it was tasked with the mandate to ensure that both the broadcasting and telecommunications systems [...]
For some reason, it seemed to me like the announcement of Ontario’s record $24.7 billion deficit officially ushered in a new sobering reality about how we will have to deal with governments at all levels over the next 12-24 months, at the very least.
Smart public affairs practitioners are already at work on this. How will [...]
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