Now, as the post-pandemic economy roars to the extent that inflation has become a serious problem, some right-of-centre thinkers are yanking the reins on these new market-skeptical ideas.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he hopes private clinics will bring the province’s surgical backlog to normal levels in a matter of months and promised on Monday that the expanded capacity at for-profit clinics is here to stay.
Some pundits have warned that the decline of provincial Liberal parties is a sign that the whole Liberal brand is declining across Canada, perhaps permanently.
The first question on the minds of Canadians, and especially those who chanted enthusiastically at these rallies, is whether Poilievre means what he says.
The economist Joel Waldfogel wrote in 1993 about the “deadweight loss” inherent to gift-giving. He argues that we don’t know each other well enough to be precise with our gifts.
The FTX crash resulted in massive losses for investors as cryptocurrency values plummeted, resulting in roughly $8 billion in losses for depositors. Will the crash and the arrest of founder Sam Bankman-Fried be the end of that Canadian obsession?
Twenty years worth of tax data show that Canadians are becoming increasingly Scrooge-like when it comes to charitable giving. In 2000, 26 percent of Canadians donated to charity, while only 19 percent opened their wallets in 2020, the most recent year with available data.
Bill C-11 is intended to regulate online streaming services alongside traditional broadcast media like cable television, thereby forcing modern streaming giants like YouTube and Netflix to use their algorithms to promote “Canadian stories”. But many creators worry it will threaten their livelihoods in the process.
As Ontario reached the two-year mark of the pandemic earlier this year, it secured another grim milestone: the province’s surgical backlog had pushed past a million procedures.
The Mississauga-Lakeshore byelection takes place on Monday, December 12, 2022. Will it serve as a preview for the next federal election?
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