C.D. Howe Institute

The finance minister’s fall economic statement offers targeted measures and reassuring talk in the face of stiff U.S. competition for investment

The Liberals have been hit with a challenge that never fit into their plan. As talks begin this week, the stakes are enormous.

An interview with the C.D. Howe Institute’s economist

Editorial: Whatever replaces the cheque ought to be cheaper and easier for all.

Many families with university or college students get a rare bit of good news around tax time. They find out students are eligible for tuition tax credits worth an average of $2,000 per year that can be transferred to parents in the likely event the student hasn’t made enough money to pay taxes. Students who don’t want to share or whose parents don’t earn much can save them up and get a break on income taxes when they start working full-time. It’s a big break. So big, in fact, that it can amount to between 31 percent and 43 percent off tuition, depending on the province. How many people know they exist before starting school? Surprisingly, no one knows how many.

The complaints of a young Reform MP

That’s the average value of a milk quota per cow under a supply-management system

The finance ministry’s legal oversight of the CMHC was long overdue

No offers yet of a professional defence for Tony Clement’s position on the census, but operators are still standing by.

ANDREW COYNE: The government has a choice. It can either break its promise not to raise taxes. Or it can break its promise not to cut transfers.

Grad studies are on the rise, but the payoff in cash is small

Some say injecting hundreds of billions into roads, sewers and public buildings could lead to the next bubble