My latest column in The StarPhoenix. I’ll add in some extra link later today but for now I need to get some work done for my other employer. Since the end of the Super Bowl, I have been following the National Football League lockout and the litigation surrounding it. I have concluded that the hard-line [...]
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Unemployed: The New Normal?
Disturbing article in the New York Times today about long term employment prospects in the United States. The “new normal,” as it has come to be called on Wall Street, academia and CNBC, envisions an economy in which growth is too slow to bring down the unemployment rate, while the government is forced to intervene [...]
Saskatoon Spending at a Glance
In case you are wondering how much more the City of Saskatoon has been spending since 2002, Sean Shaw has done some homework and created some visuals. The operating, capital, and debt servicing budgets have all been heading upwards. Coincidently enough, so have our taxes. While no one likes to pay taxes, Richard Florida does [...]
Tax on wealthy to fight child poverty
Ed Broadbent is calling on a tax increase to fight child poverty Broadbent, 73, said increasing their taxes from 29 per cent to 35 per cent would put billions more toward eliminating child poverty, increasing the amount spent by $3.7 billion. “With just that single move we would double the amount given for the national [...]
