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ArrĂŞter de payer pour la F1
On apprenait rĂ©cemment que les trois paliers de gouvernement allaient investir 98,5 millions de dollars afin d’assurer la tenue du Grand Prix de MontrĂ©al entre…
100 000 personnes sortant de la pauvreté : attention aux pièges
PIB = 288. Croissance = 518. PauvretĂ© = 47. InĂ©galitĂ©s = 2.C’est le nombre de fois que reviennent ces expressions dans le budget du QuĂ©bec…
L’hydroélectricité : grande porteuse de développement au Québec?
Dans les derniers jours, je me suis intĂ©ressĂ© au plus rĂ©cent livre de Normand Mousseau intitulĂ© Gagner la guerre du climat : douze mythes Ă dĂ©boulonner…
The Saskatchewan Party’s Secret Fiscal Fantasy
The government’s decision to cut personal and corporate income taxes, while increasing and expanding sales taxes has many people scratching their heads.
Les écoles privées du Québec à l’abri de l’austérité
Le monde scolaire quĂ©bĂ©cois est parcouru par une sĂ©paration nette entre le rĂ©seau public et les Ă©coles privĂ©es. Après l’application des mesures d’austĂ©ritĂ© par le…
Out of the locker room: violence against women is not your circus
In the time it took the moderators the US presidential debate to shut down the last microphone, just over three hundred girls were born to…
The Liberal Party of Quebec is already planning the next series of setbacks
In mid-September, the Liberal Party of Quebec —not to be confused with its federal counterpart— held its fourth Forum des idĂ©es (“Idea Forum”). Over the course of…
The Couillard Government: A Mid-Term Review | Part II: What Was Left Behind
In the first post of this two-part series, I looked into traditional indicators, those that the government uses to assess its own policies: GDP growth,…
The Couillard Government: A Mid-Term Review | Part I: The Mediocre Failure
After two years of Liberal rule in Quebec under Premier Philippe Couillard, it’s time for a mid-term review. Let’s look at empirical data to see…
Methane Emissions from Fracking: Clean LNG’s Dirty Secret
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Can an electoral system change?
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Public Sector Austerity: Why is Canada Leading the Way?
The major economic problem faced by Canadians is a very slow recovery and weak job market, not government deficits or rising debt. But public spending…
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