Budget 2009

Why the budget will generate only a quarter of the economic activity that the government told us it would

It is raining money. Go outside without an umbrella and you’ll get largesse all over.

Was the budget hot or not? Canadian education experts weigh in

This budget is clearly designed to form the basis for a Conservative-Liberal coalition de facto

One big-city mayor likes what he’s hearing from Ottawa

So the budget is out and it looks like the Tories are going to take us time travelling. Poof! It’s the 1970s again, and there’s no problem the government can’t spend its way out of. Never mind that it didn’t work then, and it left us with a government debt that crippled a generation and was only recently paid down to a reasonable level.

“It’s tough to trust this government on the numbers.”

There will be no going back from this, for the party or for the country

Infrastructure spending will account for nearly a third of all stimulus spending

Big spending, but a cloudy future still looms

A recession budget for working families

Government spends big in its recession rescue plan