October 27, 2009
Economic Instability = Ticket to Privatization
What’s the real cost of the global stimulus programs? Everything.
What’s the real cost of the global stimulus programs? Everything.
The Conservative Home Renovation Tax Credit is bad economic policy. We explore why in this blog post.
In this snapshot of international advertising forecasts from emarketer , it’s predicted that the average volume of advertising in Canada will drop as little as 2.5% in 2009, but if you look at global numbers (towards the end of the article), advertising around the world will drop anywhere from 6 to 10%. As an aside, that could be as much as $50 billion in lost […]
Research credit to Impolitical . There’s really nothing worse than the prospect of hard-line anti-government control-freaks taking over anything, let alone Canadian media. But that seems to be in the cards, anyways, doesn’t it? Rumours have swirled for a while about the CBC being cut. As early as last fall, folks identified that more than $200 million would be cut. And they were right. We’re […]
I was a little confused by the links provided by this site when I first saw them: http://coat.ncf.ca/ARMX/cansec/CADSI-DFAIT.htm After seeing some of the details, it all clicked: the Cons are paying the defense industry with Canadian tax dollars to finance groups that basically lobby the Cons (and other government stooges) to buy more stuff from the defense industry. I have to admit: it’s a nice […]