Politics can be confusing, especially when it's hard to tell how one guy differs from another. I've written before how we don't really know what Michael Ignatieff stands for and that Stephen Harper has shifted from tax-cutting Conservative to big spending prime minister, but in the most recent Canadian Business ...

There's no question the economy will be the hottest hot button issue in the next federal election, so it's unlikely Harper's too pleased with a new OECD report that says Canada's recovery is trailing the other G7 nations.

While President Barack Obama is weighing in against new trade protectionism in one bill, the trade-skeptic bloc in Congress has decided they want more protectionism in another.

If you were wondering when you might have to leave the cottage to come into the city to vote in a federal election, you're not any closer to finding out. Michael Ignatieff's big announcement on whether or not he'll support the government's economic update turned out to be more of ...

Here's my Q&A with house opposition leader Ralph Goodale. While the meatiest comments found their way into my story yesterday, there's still some stuff worth reading.

How might markets and economies unfold from here? Probably one of the better persons to ask this question is Robert Barbera, a noted Wall Street economist who has been following economic trends for over 25 years. He is also a professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of a recent ...

If you're waiting for Michael Ignatieff to reveal his views on the economy, you'll probably be tapping your toes and twiddling your thumbs for a long time. In an article I wrote for Canadian Business Online, it seems pretty clear that the interim Liberal leader - who will officially take ...

Everyone's got something to say about the Ontario budget, and especially the HST, so here are a few of the more interesting stories from some of the province's papers.

It was bound to happen at some point, but Stephen Harper revealed yesterday that he's going to have to revise his budget forecast, just two months after the late-January budget announcement.

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.