Reality check: CEO pay is out of control in Canada
DAVID MACDONALD: The CEO-to-worker pay gap is now 243 times more than the average worker’s pay
Tag: Corporate welfare
Spending public money on stadiums simply robs taxpayers
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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)
Bombardier the poster child of pork-barrel cronyism
FERGUS HODGSON: Instead of picking winners and losers, federal and provincial governments should step back and let markets work
Alberta government flip-flops on corporate welfare
FRANCO TERRAZZANO: It’s time for the UCP to drop its newfound interest in picking winners and losers
Corporate welfare no way to help the economy
FRANCO TERRAZZANO: A comment by Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews sounds like he is getting the same corporate welfare itch that plagued the New Democrats (FREE membership content)
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