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  1. Welcome back to the 19th century

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Red Deer Advocate and Miramichi Leader Back in the 20th century, much of the world’s politics was shot through with deep-rooted ideologies that had a considerable effect, often negative, on humanity. This month, as the ...

  2. The Alberta government's $2-billion leap back into corporate welfare

    Appeared in the Financial Post Alberta’s provincial government has provided plenty of political theatre as of late, with, as I write, three resignations from the government, including that of Alison Redford as premier. However, the Redford resignation may ...

  3. Chrysler bellies back up to the corporate welfare trough

    Appeared in the Globe and Mail Back in late 2011 after the Occupy Wall Street protests, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne gave a speech in Toronto to decry what he called "the most inane displays of greed." The reference was to behaviour he ...

  4. Edmonton the latest mark for pro sports corporate welfare apologists

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald and National Post For those who might have missed what’s happening in the city where Wayne Gretzky first made his mark in professional hockey, another round of taxpayer subsidies might soon be delivered to for-profit ...

  5. Industry Canada loses $5B; Access request finds $7.4B lent, just $2.1B repaid

    Appeared in the Financial Post and Calgary Herald The well-known quip- The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results- is often attributed to Albert Einstein or Mark Twain. Accurate attribution has ...

  6. Corporate Welfare Bargains at Industry Canada

    This Alert reviews payments made to businesses over the last 30 years by Canada's federal department of industry, a practice known as corporate welfare. The information was gathered through an Access to Information request to Industry Canada. This ...

  7. Corporate welfare breaks the $200-billion mark: An update on 13 years of business subsidies in Canada

    In late 2007, when the Fraser Institute published the first study on corporate welfare, the tally between April 1, 1994 and March 31, 2004 amounted to $144 billion. Two years later, we have statistics up to March 31, 2007; the total now stands at $202.7 ...