NORTHERN ECONOMIST 2.0

 This post originally appeared on the Fraser Institute Blog , March 25th, 2024. Ontario government’s fiscal history drenched in red ink ...

  Wednesday's Bank of Canada rate increase reminds us once again that the era of cheap money is over not just for cons...

  With all the focus on the US debt ceiling political debate , it is sometimes easy to lose focus on our own debt situatio...

  In the wake of the Federal 2023 spring budget, it is useful to take a look at the historical picture to see how the pres...

  Well, the Ontario 2021 budget came out yesterday and it is rightly preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic.   COVID-19 fu...

  Governments in Canada and around the world have run large budget deficits and greatly added to their debt loads due to their pandemic re...

  The immediate impact of COVID-19 on Canada’s economy - like many others - has been a drop in GDP and a massive ramping u...

In lead up to a decision to approve a new municipal   $33 million Indoor Turf Facility that will add $15 million to the City of Thunder Ba...

Along with Northern Economist, I also contribute to two other blogs - the Fraser Institute and Worthwhile Canadian Initiative .  I try to p...

The Ontario government delivered its Fall 2018 Economic Statement and the end result was not as dire as anticipated.   From a revised def...

I had the privilege of attending along with nearly 50 other participants   the " Wealth and Debt Accumulation in Early Financial Marke...

My latest on Ontario's public finances... Ontario has wrapped up its 2018 pre-budget public consultations as it prepares to deliver i...

The following op-ed appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, March 16 th , 2017 and the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, March 13 th...