NORTHERN ECONOMIST 2.0
An Ontario economics and policy blog.
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Canadian Economy Slows in First Quarter 2018
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Well, the Statistics Canada GDP numbers are out for the first quarter of 2018 and real GDP in the first quarter of 2018 grew at 0.3 percen...
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
Northern Ontario Property Tax Update
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The 2017 edition of the BMA Municipal Study is out and there is a wealth of material here for blog posts for the next little while. It is a...
Friday, 25 May 2018
Large Municipal Operating Surpluses Do Not Always Mean You Are Good at Budgeting
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The City of Thunder Bay’s final 2017 budget surplus is apparently now double what was originally projected. Whereas a $2.8 million year-end...
Thursday, 24 May 2018
Wealth Inequality in the North Atlantic Anglosphere
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I have been working on historical wealth and wealth inequality for most of my career and have put together a lot of my thinking and long-ter...
Friday, 18 May 2018
Ontario's Political Future: Yours to Discover
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Ontario’s election may very well be decided over the next few days as Ontarians pause to take in the long weekend and use it to step back a...
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