Post-COVID-19 housing squeeze will hurt lower-income residents
One person’s easy parking access is another person’s hour-long bus ride. One person’s unchanging neighbourhood is another person’s unstable life
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Author: Steve Lafleur
Ontario needs to look to Quebec for debt management strategies
With the rollout of vaccinations underway, governments should start planning for the recovery and developing plans to put their finances on the path to sustainability
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Ontario government must avoid fiscal mistakes of its predecessors
The government must craft a credible short-term plan to eliminate the budget deficit rather than continuing the bipartisan habit of kicking the can down the road
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Ontario must quickly balance budget in wake of pandemic
Deficits might seem like an abstract problem for our future selves (or future generations) but in Ontario, this simply isn’t the case
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Ontario’s lost decade of job creation
Toronto and Ottawa are thriving but as long as large regions of Ontario struggle, the province and the country won’t meet their full economic potential
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Feds should stop trying to fix Canadian housing markets
That’s a job better left to municipal and provincial governments, which can actually have an impact on supply and demand
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Alberta government must cut taxes to restore economy
It’s time to reform the tax code, eliminate exemptions and cut corporate subsidies, while significantly reducing spending
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Inflated employee pay at the heart of Alberta government’s debt
From wages to benefits to job security to early retirement, government employee compensation must be constrained
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Alberta can’t blame the equalization system for its economic mess
Undisciplined spending by successive governments is responsible for Alberta’s fiscal problems
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Alberta sinks deeper into a sea of red ink
The more the government spends on servicing its debt, the less is left over for priorities that Albertans value such as health care
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