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Archive for September, 2009

Canada vs. The G-7

Keystone Liberals Yesterday, Andrew Coyne lambasted a Liberal Party “Reality Check” from Thursday that looks eerily similar to the table that I had posted on Monday. Like my table, the Liberals use the words “Growth”, “Decline”, and “Britain.” By contrast, the OECD’s tables use a negative sign (instead of words) to denote declines and refer [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under Australia, Blogroll, G-8, GDP, media, OECD.
September 5th, 2009
Comments: 4

Public-Sector Recession?

Layoffs Continue Today’s Labour Force Survey indicates that full-time employment declined by 4,000 in August. There were 7,000 fewer jobs in goods-producing industries. Retailers Hire A surprising 21,000 new jobs in retail and wholesale trade propelled economy-wide employment up by 27,000. This increase consisted entirely of part-time jobs. While any employment gain is welcome news, [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under labour market, media, recession, StatCan, stimulus, unemployment.
September 4th, 2009
Comments: 5

Canada’s Third Quarter: Worst in the G-7 Again?

Disappointingly, press coverage of Monday’s GDP numbers missed the fact that Canada had posted the worst second-quarter performance of any G-7 country.  To his credit, Julian Beltrame of Canadian Press picked it up on Tuesday. The media has redeemed itself by noting that today’s Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) projections suggest that Canada will [...]

Posted by Erin Weir under G-8, GDP, media, OECD.
September 3rd, 2009
Comments: none

Take Two: BC Budget 2009 September Update (Notes from Marc and Iglika)

The September BC Budget is a new look at a budget most have come to see as a fake. February’s budget was not passed through the legislature due to the May election, and up to E-Day the government maintained the fiction that it had a small-ish deficit of just under half a billion dollars. Since [...]

Posted by Marc Lee under BC, budgets, fiscal policy, recession, stimulus, taxation.
September 1st, 2009
Comments: 3

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