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April 28, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: His Waterloo

The chattering classes are praising Stephen Harper’s political smarts. He has set the agenda for the next election, they say, and he has delivered a budget that the opposition parties can’t fight. But Scott Clark and Peter DeVries disagree. Harper’s budget, they write, is too smart by half: The pundits

January 29, 2015 Owen Gray

Northern Reflections: An Unmitigated Disaster

http://keef.tv/blog/ Jim Stanford writes that the sound a fury about a balanced budget is about politics, not economics: Running spending cuts since 2011 now total