The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Some NL cabinet ministers bill taxpayers for work...
Almost half the money (46%) spent on ministerial travel by the municipal affairs department between December 2010 and November 2011 went to cover travel by minister Kevin O’Brien from his home in...
View ArticleCanadian ProgressiveCanadian Progressive: Canada’s Parliamentary Budget...
Make no mistake about it: Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) is on a mission to save the soul of Canadian democracy. Kevin Page is proceeding with his earlier threat to sue the Harper...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Some Numbers
Government spending per capita, Toronto: $24,000.Government spending per capita, Attawapiskat: 11,355. That is all.
View ArticleWalking Turcot Yards: Transport Quebec warns motorists: stay away from Turcot...
It was built below specs and has been poorly maintained. Saving on maintenance costs in the first 3 decades created full time maintenance contracts that has cost, and will cost taxpayer’s, over 100′s...
View ArticleImpolitical: Your $60 million media monitoring programme
Note: This blog post below was written on March 9th but not published. Given this news of the past day, “Harper Government Spends Millions Monitoring Press Of Own MPs,” thought it would be useful...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: What the Fraser Institute’s numbers actually show, minus the...
The Fraser Institute: peddling conclusions that don’t match the evidence and have enough holes to store captured carbon. Actual Fraser Institute “fellows” may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below:...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Two solitudes #nlpoli
CBC and the Telegram carried a story on Tuesday that the province would be hit by a “mild recession” next year. There’s not much real news in that since oil and minerals will all be down in price for...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Tory-gram Returns #nlpoli
And there it was. Top of the front page. Screaming headline. Economist warns Liberal plan doesn’t make sense. Right underneath a picture of the new Liberal Premier-in-waiting and the new Prime...
View ArticleThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Spending the future (2005) #nlpoli
” [The change in the province’s financial outlook] That’s very dramatic…Some people are going to stand back and say ‘Oh yeah, that’s just because your very lucky. That’s because the oil prices have...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Guest Post: Fiscal hawks’ formulas for cutting spending...
PHOTOS: The Alberta Government’s Dash-8, used and abused by Premier Ralph Klein so that he could smoke while in transit between Calgary and Edmonton (Photo: Wikimedia Commons). It’s not just what you...
View ArticleImpolitical: Your $60 million media monitoring programme
Note: This blog post below was written on March 9th but not published. Given this news of the past day, “Harper Government Spends Millions Monitoring Press Of Own MPs,” thought it would be useful...
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