Corporate welfare Archives

Trudeau’s luxury tax will harm blue-collar workers

by Franco Terrazzano | Sep 20, 2022 | Business, FREE content, Politics, Today | 0

FRANCO TERRAZZANO: Canadian workers will pay the price of this silly political posturing

World Cup games a boondoggle for taxpayers

by Jay Goldberg | Jul 6, 2022 | Eye on BC, Eye on Ontario, FREE content, Municipal, Politics, Sports | 0

JAY GOLDBERG: Politicians shouldn’t be wasting tax dollars on their political vanity project

Canada’s richest companies riding the inflation gravy train

by David Macdonald | Jun 2, 2022 | Business, FREE content, Politics | 0

DAVID MACDONALD: Some corporations are doing better than ever while Canadians struggle with skyrocketing cost of living. Let’s tax them

Spending public money on stadiums simply robs taxpayers

by Ken Reed | Apr 5, 2022 | Business, Municipal, Politics, PREMIUM content, Sports | 0

SPORTS: The estimated jobs effect of a subsidized sports facility is negative. Spending at the stadium simply substitutes for spending elsewhere

The Flames arena’s demise good for Calgary taxpayers

by Kevin Lacey | Feb 14, 2022 | Business, Eye on Alberta, FREE content, Municipal, Sports | 0

KEVIN LACEY: Taxpayers should be relieved with the demise of the Calgary Flames arena, as it was a bad deal, with the only winners rich hockey team owners (FREE)

Why bailing out Air Canada is counterproductive

by Paz Gomez | Sep 15, 2021 | Business, FREE content, Politics, Travel | 0

PAZ GOMEZ: Rather than subsist on government aid, the company should urge officials to ease travel restrictions (FREE)

Robbing Peter to pay Paul with energy subsidies?

by Mark Milke | Jul 15, 2021 | Business, Environment, FREE content, Politics, Your Money | 0

MARK MILKE and LENNIE KAPLAN: There is no subsidy pot of gold going to oil and gas companies that can be diverted to renewable energy ventures. Instead, green subsidies must come from taxpayers (FREE)

A clear example of why government and business shouldn’t mix

by Ian Madsen | Jul 13, 2021 | Business, Eye on Saskatchewan, FREE content, World | 0

IAN MADSEN: Canadian gold-mining company Centerra is engaged in a legal and political dispute with the government of Kyrgyzstan, a chronically unstable former Soviet republic

We can’t just pour more money into Air Canada

by Ian Madsen | Jun 19, 2021 | Business, FREE content, Politics | 0

IAN MADSEN: There will likely be more millions, perhaps billions, flung into the ether in the hopes that domestic air travel can revive intact (FREE)

HGTV personality takes from Canadian taxpayers to build Bahamian resort

by Jason Clemens | Jun 9, 2021 | A&E, Business, FREE content, Politics | 0

JASON CLEMENS: Government intervention in films and television is both expensive and unwarranted, taking hundreds of millions of dollars from regular hard-working Canadians (FREE)