Category: Productivity

Health Care, Our Branch-Plant Economy, Permanent War and More…

  With the addition of Gwyn Morgan, the Globe has another right-wing columnist.  His latest about health care made me look twice to make sure it wasn’t written by a Tea Party member.  What the paper needs, instead, is more thoughtful and knowledgeable writers like Lawrence Martin. *     *    *     *     * If you know [...]

More Ugly Indicators

  It’s truly amazing.  The more we cut taxes for big business in Canada, as we have dramatically under Mulroney, Chretien, Martin and Harper, the worse our productivity record grows.  Where once we were in the top 10, we’re now all the way down to 22nd among OECD nations. Of course, the more we cut [...]

Saturday August 21st, 2010 in CRTC, Corporate Tax Cuts, Harper, Media, Peacekeeping, Productivity, US Deficit/Economy | Comments Off

A Republican Sweep? / Canada’s Poor Productivity

   Chris Hedges writes a regular column for Truthdig.com.  He graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was a New York Times foreign correspondent for almost 20 years.  In the following he quotes Noam Chomsky about the US: “The mood of the country is frightening. The level of anger, frustration and anger is unlike anything I’ve [...]

Our terrible record compared with other OECD countries.

  Those of you who have read The Truth About Canada  know that large portions of the book were based on OECD, UN, IMF, Statistics Canada or other comparisons showing how Canada compares to other countries in a long list of economic, social educational and other areas. Here’s a bunch of updates, based on the [...]

Friday February 12th, 2010 in OECD Comparisons, Productivity, Social Spending | Comments Off