The Power of Comprehensive Policy Reform: Lessons for Ontario from Michigan finds that even though both jurisdictions were hard hit during the 2009 recession, Michigan has enjoyed a much more successful recovery in the past 10 years. Crucially, Michigan’s economic success coincides with substantial policy reforms, implemented in 2011, that lowered business taxes, increased worker choice, slowed government spending and reduced state debt.
Trans Mountain takes yet another hit (Appeared in the Edmonton Sun)by Kenneth P. Green Over decades of moving oil-by-tanker, B.C. has never had a tanker spill offshore.
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