Premier Wab Kinew is punishing Manitobans for receiving a cost-of-living pay raise. And he’s really hoping you won’t notice, but here’s what’s happening. The Manitoba government will stop indexing income tax brackets and the basic personal amount by inflation this year. That’s called bracket creep and it’s a sneaky way of hiking taxes. Because of […]
Ontario’s 2025 Throne Speech addressed many social policy issues Ontarians are struggling with, namely housing and health care. While Premier Doug Ford attempted to put forward a plan to help alleviate some of the key problems that Ontarians are experiencing, his solutions may not be entirely what we need to solve those problems. Let’s consider […]
The Saskatchewan government is increasing the debt by more than $6.5 million a day in this year’s provincial budget. That’s $6.5 million. Every. Single. Day. The government is adding about $2.4 billion more to the debt, in total. The debt will reach $23.5 billion by the end of the year. That works out to about […]
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has taken a lot of abuse from some of her fellow politicians as well as fellow Canadians in recent weeks. Because she has chosen to take a somewhat different path in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs threats, she has been criticized as not being part of “Team Canada” – […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has once again appointed the largest Cabinet in Ontario’s history. Ford beat his own record in appointing 37 members to his new Cabinet, which will oversee his government’s agenda as it begins its third term. Most of the faces Ontarians will see over the next four years are faces they will […]
After his historic win of a third majority government, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s unveiling of his new cabinet was a bit anti-climatic. The ceremony took place at the Royal Ontario Museum – among the dinosaur exhibits several media pundits enjoyed pointing out. The resulting cabinet team was largely more of the same (large being the […]
Finance Minister Jim Reiter needs to deliver a balanced budget on March 19. Not balanced some time in the future, balanced on March 19. On budget day in 2023, the government promised a $1-billion surplus. That surplus ended up shrinking to $182 million, according to the latest public accounts. That’s because while government revenue increased by 6.7 […]
Ontarians are also watching Ford closely to make sure he doesn’t take his eye off the ball when it comes to other critical issues. Pictured: Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Photo Credit: Doug Ford/X. After a cold and snow-filled election, Ontario Premier Doug Ford emerged as the victor, although he did not make the electoral […]
Ford has effectively run a typical Liberal government with big spending, growing debt and an increasingly uncompetitive economy. Pictured: Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Photo Credit: Doug Ford/X. Despite winning the recent Ontario election under the banner of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Doug Ford has for years been accused of being a […]
Ford’s PCs win 80 seats for a third decisive win. Pictured: Premier Doug Ford and his wife Karla. Photo Credit: Doug Ford/X. Ontario residents have awarded Premier Doug Ford with a third consecutive majority government and four more years at Queen’s Park. The Thursday, Feb. 27 election was not originally scheduled to take place until […]