The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The latest in a string of little budget dramas ended on Friday afternoon. A group of lawyers that included former Conservative party preside...

Politicians are usually very careful about the words they use. That’s why it’s important to notice the words Premier Dwight Ball used this...

Putting a freeze on any discretionary spending is the very least that the provincial government could do in light of the dramatic – but ent...

What is it about the provincial Conservatives and income tax? Kathy Dunderdale rabbited on about it last fall and again in January . La...

_______________________________________________ This is the third in a four part series on the current financial crisis the provincia...

_______________________________________________ This is the second in a four part series that offers an interpretation of the current...

______________________________________________ Over the next four days, SRBP will offer an interpretation of the political underpinni...

The provincial Conservatives love to spend public money.  That doesn’t sound very conservative and it isn’t.  Politically, the provincial ...

About two thirds of the people in the province who file tax returns earn less than $35,000 a year before taxes. It’s the kind of detail th...

The Premier, the finance minister, and their favourite economist are talking about tax increases, layoffs, and spending cuts. They are tal...

Federal finance leprechaun Jim Flaherty has been signaling the need to cap the Equalization system this year. "It's a federal...

1.  The United Kingdom will loan Iceland 100 million pounds sterling to assist its Landesbanki repay British creditors of the nationalis...