VIDEO: Guess who wants “carmageddon” over public transit in Vancouver?

Published February 25, 2015

Meet the group leading the charge against improving public transit in Canada. The right-wing Canadian Taxpayers Federation has done everything but come out with torches and pitchforks in the current Vancouver transit referendum — becoming the public voice and face of the ‘No’ side, positioned against a 0.5% sales tax to improve transit in the Metro […]

ESPN ices Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s theory that NHL players want tax breaks

Published February 24, 2015

Oops! The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is offside. Again A few months ago, the right-wing, anti-tax group released a report claiming that lowering taxes could help your favourite NHL team attract star players — and maybe even win the Stanley Cup. One problem, though: the CTF’s own numbers showed the two lowest taxed teams in the NHL (the Calgary Flames […]

Conservatives try to defend TFSA tax breaks for the rich

Published February 24, 2015

Finance Minister Joe Oliver must have felt like he was seeing double on Tuesday. New reports from both the Broadbent Institute and the Parliamentary Budget Officer criticized the Conservatives plan to expand the Tax-Free Savings Accounts program — both for lost revenues and for disproportionately benefitting the wealthiest Canadians. The Broadbent Institute report, written by Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, one […]

Conservative think tank wants Stephen Harper to gut endangered species laws

Published January 29, 2015

Who cares about a bunch of owls — or monarch butterflies — when we’ve got acres of forest that need clear cutting? Hot off the heels of calling for a rollback of “unnecessary” child labour laws, the right-wing Frontier Centre for Public Policy is now turning its attention to Canada’s endangered species laws ahead of […]

Fraser Institute wonders if a good job with good pay and a good pension is “fair”?

Published January 23, 2015

Is a job offering a good wage, good benefits and a pension at retirement a bad thing? Many would say that sounds like a sound strategy to fuel the middle class and protect purchasing power in retirement. But one free-market think tank questions whether that’s “fair.” A new report from the Fraser Institute probes that question by […]

Counting down the 14 silliest Fraser Institute moments of 2014

Published January 5, 2015

Is Hong Kong the freest economy in the world? Does leaving your lights on when you go to work grow the economy? And might it be the case that women participating in the workforce causes them to binge drink and chain smoke themselves into early graves? The right-wing Fraser Institute marked its 40th birthday in 2014 by […]

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