Patrick Brethour

Tax & Spend: Inflation could be history by 2025. Its political fallout won’t be.

Tax & Spend: Ottawa will feel the pain of higher interest rates. Eventually.

Ottawa’s hiring spree is beyond measure

Tax & Spend: The carbon-pricing fight heads east

How Pierre Poilievre is trying to bring complex issue of marginal effective tax rates to the fore

Tax & Spend: Want to solve Canada’s productivity woes? Keep up the pressure of a labour shortage

Why Ontario’s health care budget won’t keep pace with inflation and population growth

Tax & Spend: The (kinda-good-enough) fiscal conservativism of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives

Critics accuse Canada’s grocers of ‘greed-flation’ but quarterly earnings suggest otherwise

Tax & Spend: The melting value of Ontario’s prepared-food tax break

The misery index returns, with more still to come

Tax & Spend: Ottawa stands aside as provinces neuter the carbon tax

Ottawa leaves door open for provinces to cut fuel taxes

Premiers say Ottawa is shortchanging them on health care, but their complaints aren’t based on reality

Tax & Spend: Worries about tax cuts at the pump are just so much vapour

How Shinzo Abe’s ‘three arrows’ vision revitalized a withering Japanese economy

Closing the ‘grey gap’ could provide solutions to labour shortage

Tax & Spend: Canada’s phantom army of defence spending

Canada commits $4.9-billion over six years to modernize NORAD defences

Tax & Spend: Time to cut your spending, so Ottawa doesn’t have to