So-called "evidence-based decision-making" is very popular these days. Actual evidence is rather less so. Especially of unwelcome things like the collapse of Britain's National Health Service on which ours is modelled. Since theirs is two decades older it offers a troubling preview of what we can expect around 2033. Click here to read the rest.
Watching the United States jump back from the fiscal cliff straight into the 'sequester' is as horrible as it is instructive. Click here to read the rest.
Canadians love to complain about government debt. Unfortunately a general attitude of instant gratification governs our personal as well as public finances. Click here to read the rest.
Widespread coverage of the tweet that Stephen Harper had breakfast withhis cat, named Stanley thanks to a Facebook poll, has me hissing mad.
What's wrong with Americans? No, not their political choices, domestic arsenals or supersized appetites. I mean literally. Why do nearly nine million American workers collect federal disability insurance, one for every 13 with full-time jobs? Click here to read the rest.
A Bloc Quebecois press release informs me that "The federal government refuses to see the consequences of its ideological reform of Employment Insurance". Now I know what you're thinking. "There's still a Bloc Québécois?" To which I can only reply that there must be or it wouldn't be sending me press releases. What I can't explain, though, is what it thinks it means by "ideological". Click here to read more.
So the United States didn’t go off the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Instead Republicans circled the wagons, fired inward then gave President Obama and the Democrats almost all the tax increases they wanted in return for — spending increases. Progressive opinion cheered even though the nation and its politicians remain poised atop a real fiscal cliff a trillion dollars high. Click here to read the rest.