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Next objective: Reduce the tax burden
Despite the Quebec government’s budgetary successes, let’s be realistic: We’ll need to do more to catch up with the rest of the country.
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To stop coronavirus, time to roll up our sleeves
As coronavirus spreads, there are excellent models in Asia that Canada can look to. Taiwan, for one, has so far succeeded in effectively fighting the coronavirus.
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When your job doesn’t impress columnists
A few weeks ago, the MEI made the case for protecting part-time workers. Those jobs are a much-needed first rung on the ladder for many Canadians, especially the young and the vulnerable.
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Telecoms: Certain electoral promises should not be kept
It’s good that governments are concerned about citizens’ purchasing power, as long as they know how to address the issue.
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Progress is in the eye of the beholder
As the US Democratic Party primaries determine who will contend for the next presidential election, the words commentators use to describe the intentions of the different camps illustrate the importance of semantics in politics.
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Can private initiative stop COVID-19 from swarming across the global village?
Do we need a virus to remember that our living standards depend so much on international trade?
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100,000 ways to kill freedom
A parent who’s a little too sensitive asked a teacher who’s a little too accommodating to stop dissecting “Les 100 000 façons de tuer un homme,” a well-known Quebecois song, with elementary students at a school in Montreal’s Mile End district.
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Sanders long overdue for change of heart about Castro
As others have pointed out, the facts are simply not with Bernie Sanders when he praises Communist Cuba’s record, as he did again recently on 60 Minutes.
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Yes, we should listen to First Nations!
Demonstrations organized by members of First Nations are disrupting economic activity in Canada, and preventing people from freely travelling around the country, and even from taking their commuter trains to work.
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Labour shortage: Not a problem, but an opportunity
The Quebec government has created a group to find solutions to the scarcity of labour that is supposedly hindering Quebec growth.