The elephant in the room? Over 70 percent of Ontario education spending goes toward paying teachers and education bureaucrats As Ontario families face the possibility of a looming teachers’ strike this fall, it’s important to know some key facts. First, government funding for education has risen steadily over the past decade. Ten years ago, the…
BROKEN PROMISE: Ford expands political welfare program, costing Ontario taxpayers millions Thanks to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a record number of political parties are cashing in on your dime. Five years ago, Ford promised to eliminate Ontario’s political welfare program. Instead, he’s expanded it, extended it and made it even more costly. During the 2018…
Toronto taxpayers need to ask themselves whether they can afford to pay for Chow’s agenda Olivia Chow’s mayoral candidacy could be expensive for Toronto taxpayers. “I am ready to tax,” declared Chow in launching her campaign. So far, she’s demonstrating Toronto taxpayers should take her commitment seriously. Chow appears fully prepared to raise property taxes…
Volkswagen will get up to $13 billion in corporate welfare in exchange for a $7-billion electric car battery plant By Franco Terrazzano and Jay Goldberg More than $4 million per job. That’s how much Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed taxpayers to spending in his sweetheart deal with a German auto giant. Flanked by Ontario…
Keep property tax hikes below the rate of inflation; close the budget gap created by Tory’s reckless spending Toronto mayoral candidates are falling all over each other in promising to hike taxes, but it’s time for candidates to get serious and look at reining in government spending. Spending has soared in Toronto over the past…
Ontario’s massive revenue surge should not be squandered Ontario Premier Doug Ford is approaching a proverbial fork in the road. If Ford takes the first path, he will plunge the province back into deficit and cement Ontario’s status as the most indebted sub-national government in the world. But if Ford takes the second path, he…
Tory’s out-of-control spending rivals that of Justin Trudeau and even makes Doug Ford look like a penny pincher It’s time to dispel a years-long myth: former mayor John Tory was no friend to Toronto taxpayers. He shouldn’t let the door hit him on his way out of city hall. Tory ran for mayor as a…
Bill C-11 is a bad bill that gives bureaucrats the power to regulate what counts as Canadian content NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has a golden opportunity to show that he can stand up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by keeping the government from removing important amendments to Bill C-11. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians, civil…
Senator David Adams Richards warns that “Stalin again will be looking over our shoulder” should bill become law One of Canada’s most acclaimed authors is drawing a clear line: he doesn’t want politicians telling him what counts as Canadian content or Big Brother looking over his shoulder when he writes. If ever there was doubt…
If there ever was a time for politicians to stop digging, it’s now It turns out endless spending does come with a hangover: soaring interest rates. Ontario’s finances have been awash in red ink since Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Junior was in diapers. Former premier Dalton McGuinty took over Queen’s Park and started Ontario’s debt…
The elephant in the room? Over 70 percent of Ontario education spending goes toward paying teachers and education bureaucrats As Ontario families face the possibility of a looming teachers’ strike this fall, it’s important to know some key facts. First, government funding for education has risen steadily over the past decade. Ten years ago, the…
BROKEN PROMISE: Ford expands political welfare program, costing Ontario taxpayers millions Thanks to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a record number of political parties are cashing in on your dime. Five years ago, Ford promised to eliminate Ontario’s political welfare program. Instead, he’s expanded it, extended it and made it even more costly. During the 2018…
Toronto taxpayers need to ask themselves whether they can afford to pay for Chow’s agenda Olivia Chow’s mayoral candidacy could be expensive for Toronto taxpayers. “I am ready to tax,” declared Chow in launching her campaign. So far, she’s demonstrating Toronto taxpayers should take her commitment seriously. Chow appears fully prepared to raise property taxes…
Volkswagen will get up to $13 billion in corporate welfare in exchange for a $7-billion electric car battery plant By Franco Terrazzano and Jay Goldberg More than $4 million per job. That’s how much Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed taxpayers to spending in his sweetheart deal with a German auto giant. Flanked by Ontario…
Keep property tax hikes below the rate of inflation; close the budget gap created by Tory’s reckless spending Toronto mayoral candidates are falling all over each other in promising to hike taxes, but it’s time for candidates to get serious and look at reining in government spending. Spending has soared in Toronto over the past…
Ontario’s massive revenue surge should not be squandered Ontario Premier Doug Ford is approaching a proverbial fork in the road. If Ford takes the first path, he will plunge the province back into deficit and cement Ontario’s status as the most indebted sub-national government in the world. But if Ford takes the second path, he…
Tory’s out-of-control spending rivals that of Justin Trudeau and even makes Doug Ford look like a penny pincher It’s time to dispel a years-long myth: former mayor John Tory was no friend to Toronto taxpayers. He shouldn’t let the door hit him on his way out of city hall. Tory ran for mayor as a…
Bill C-11 is a bad bill that gives bureaucrats the power to regulate what counts as Canadian content NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has a golden opportunity to show that he can stand up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by keeping the government from removing important amendments to Bill C-11. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians, civil…
Senator David Adams Richards warns that “Stalin again will be looking over our shoulder” should bill become law One of Canada’s most acclaimed authors is drawing a clear line: he doesn’t want politicians telling him what counts as Canadian content or Big Brother looking over his shoulder when he writes. If ever there was doubt…
If there ever was a time for politicians to stop digging, it’s now It turns out endless spending does come with a hangover: soaring interest rates. Ontario’s finances have been awash in red ink since Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Junior was in diapers. Former premier Dalton McGuinty took over Queen’s Park and started Ontario’s debt…