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  1. Education reform could help address Ontario's financial woes

    The Waterloo Record Ontario’s financial status quo is not sustainable. That’s the conclusion of numerous independent analyses, the former provincial treasurer, and the province’s own commission on reform of public sector services. Yet despite these ...

  2. High personal taxes may hurt the Senators and Leafs on free agency day

    Appeared in Hamilton Spectator, Sudbury Star, Waterloo Region Record, and Moncton Times & Transcript July 1 is an important day for Canadians as they celebrate the country’s founding. It’s also the first day that NHL teams can sign free agents for the ...

  3. The misguided attraction of energy conservation

    Appeared in the Financial Post At the end of March, the CEO of the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) issued a directive regarding the implementation of Ontario's "Long term energy plan," which spells out  what the provincial energy regulator ...

  4. Ontario Pension Plan based on faulty assumptions

    Appeared in the National Post The Ontario government's proposal to supplement the Canada Pension Plan with its own compulsory pension plan is based on a series of faulty assumptions. A fundamental but unproven assumption is that people are not saving ...

  5. Evaluating the Proposed Ontario Pension Plan

    The Ontario government has proposed its own supplement to the CPP in an attempt to force more saving. In reality, Ontarians typically have an above-average saving rate, double that of the rest of Canada as recently as 2009. Saving in Ontario returned to ...

  6. Moody's report yet another warning sign for Ontario to act

    Appeared in the Guelph Mercury A new report on provincial debts and deficits by Moody's, the international credit rating agency, is another piercing reminder of Ontario's serious fiscal challenges. Based on media accounts, the report warns that ...

  7. More school choice the answer for Ontario parents of special needs children

    Appeared in the National Post In her May 20th column, Why I can't vote for Tim Hudak, our long-time friend, Tasha Kheiriddin, raised questions concerning the Tory plan for reforming K-12 education in Ontario. Her concerns were based on her daughter& ...

  8. Ontario's financial woes a problem for all of Canada

    Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record Lost in the current flurry of Ontario’s election campaign is the one key issue facing the province, and indeed all of Canada: Ontario’s laggard economic performance is dragging down the national economy. Due to the ...

  9. Ontario consumers handicapped by beer and wine sale myths

    Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record Much of Canada’s current approach to liquor retailing has its roots in Prohibition-era attitudes towards wine, beer and spirits. But anyone who thinks that era ended should consider the anti-competition rhetoric that ...

  10. The Reality of Retirement Income in Canada

    Building on the three pillars of Canada?s pension system, the current retirement income system serves the vast majority of Canadians very well. The problem of poverty among the elderly, which drove many of the reforms in the 1970s and 1980s, has largely ...