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

  The Globe and Mail - Patrick Brethour

  Tax and Fiscal Policy Reporter In the run-up to the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944, U.S. General George Patton was assigned to command a phantom army in the southeast of England, complete with plywood trucks and tank-shaped balloons. It was an elaborate ruse designed to confuse enemy aerial …

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  Canada to spend $4.9-billion on modernizing NORAD defences

  The Globe and Mail - Steven Chase

  The Canadian government will spend $4.9-billion over six years to help upgrade continental defences as part of a modernization of NORAD. Defence Minister Anita Anand announced the investment Monday at CFB Trenton. A major component of upgrading the North American Aerospace Defence Command is …

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

  The Globe and Mail - Patrick Brethour

  Tax and Fiscal Policy Reporter At the start of the pandemic, the federal Liberals often proclaimed that Ottawa was taking on debt so that Canadians wouldn’t have to. Hundreds of billions of dollars in added federal debt and an unprecedented rise in household savings were testament to the Liberals’ …

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  Ontario PC’s pivot to blue-collar concerns helped it flip several ridings from the NDP

  The Globe and Mail - Patrick Brethour

  It’s been nearly seven decades and 17 elections since Windsor-Tecumseh last sent a Progressive Conservative to the Ontario legislature. Just four years ago, the NDP candidate coasted to an easy win, with a 31-point margin over his PC rival. There was a similarly sized lopsided victory in the June 2 …

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  Ottawa’s stale anti-inflation plan offers nothing new to struggling Canadians

  The Globe and Mail - Patrick Brethour

  The Trudeau government recognized the growing peril that surging inflation posed to the economy and to the household budgets of Canadians. “The widespread expectation six months ago that the tide of world inflation would begin to recede this year has been frustrated,” the finance minister said. The …

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  Tax & Spend: Vote for me, I’ll tax your kids

  The Globe and Mail - Patrick Brethour

  Tax and Fiscal Policy Reporter Here is a sure-fire winner of a political platform. Promise to levy a consumption tax on Canadian households. Families with children pay the most. And, to cap it off, the proceeds go to pump up profit margins for producers. If you’re not convinced, you haven’t been …