Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Gordon’

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  The science, economics and politics of climate change

  Further to last week’s debate on environmental policy and climate change, Stephen Gordon checks…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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  A tax on imported blankets

  Ted Menzies says foreign aid, the budget says tax measures

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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  Carbon pricing: Beyond the talking point

  It’s all fun and games until China institutes a carbon tax

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, February 22, 2013

• Trudeau and the GST

  During his interview on CBC’s The House, Justin Trudeau ruled out an increase in…

  by Aaron Wherry - Monday, December 3, 2012

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  ‘A $36-billion car tax’

  NDP MP Glenn Thibeault’s statement in the House before Question Period this afternoon.

  This…

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, November 28, 2012

• A federal deficit, but a golden age for snowmobile grooming machines

  Stephen Gordon reviews yesterday’s economic update.
  The structural deficit introduced by the GST cut…

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, November 14, 2012

• Leon Benoit defers to the authority of Stephen Gordon

  Conservative MP Leon Benoit seems to have issued a news release that uses the…

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, October 31, 2012

• It’s structural

  Stephen Gordon notes that the finance department considers the federal deficit to be structural….

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, October 10, 2012

• About that trade deficit

  On Monday, Thomas Mulcair blamed the Conservatives for a $50-billion “trade deficit.” The Conservatives…

  by Aaron Wherry - Thursday, September 20, 2012

• Dutch Disease and everything after

  The NDP points to the Alberta budget to support Thomas Mulcair’s position that the…

  by Aaron Wherry - Monday, June 4, 2012

• Thomas Mulcair, mostly undaunted

  In interviews with the Globe and West Block, Thomas Mulcair expressed regret for his…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, May 22, 2012

• The Dutch, oil and Thomas Mulcair

  Stephen Gordon considers the question of Dutch Disease.
  The appreciating Canadian dollar has little…

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, May 9, 2012

• Are we infected?

  Thomas Mulcair worries that we’re suffering from Dutch Disease.
  NDP leader Thomas Mulcair said…

  by Aaron Wherry - Monday, May 7, 2012

• By the numbers

  Elections Canada says the majority of the 31,000 complaints it reported two weeks ago…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, March 13, 2012

• Is now a good time?

  Stephen Gordon projects the sort of job cuts the public service might be facing….

  by Aaron Wherry - Monday, January 30, 2012

• We don’t really want to fight climate change

  Stephen Gordon invokes the law of revealed preference to explain Canada’s withdrawal from Kyoto….

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, December 13, 2011

• Down with taxes, up with inequality

  Stephen Gordon troubleshoots a proposal—championed by the New Democrats and Conservatives in Ontario, but…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, November 18, 2011

• Defend, reduce or scrap

  The government was fairly adamant yesterday that it would defend supply management. Steven Chase…

  by Aaron Wherry - Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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  NDP adventures in Westpolitik

  Why does Paul Dewar want Alberta and Saskatchewan to stop doing what’s making them rich?

  by Colby Cosh - Thursday, November 3, 2011

• When taxes aim high

  Stephen Gordon questions the effects of taxing the rich.
  What becomes more problematic is…

  by Aaron Wherry - Monday, October 24, 2011

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