Calling for Jim Flaherty's head seems to be becoming something of a regional pastime up Ottawa way, and I guess you can't fault the Opposition for seizing what they see as an opportunity.

Yikes. The Ontario government's deficit for 2009 is going to be $14.1 billion — a record. In seven years the Grits will be $56.8 billion in the hole.

The Ontario Government’s 2009 Budget will harmonize the Goods & Services Tax (GST) and Provincial Sales Tax (PST). Ontario citizens will pay one sales tax of 13% on goods and services.

Down south, the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan economic analysis organization, revealed that Barack Obama's budget proposals would result in a $9.3 trillion deficit. That's a huge difference from the $2.3 trillion shortfall the new administration has expected it would create.