Apr 8, 2012
How Canada will get rid of the penny, and will be better off for it.
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How Canada will get rid of the penny, and will be better off for it.
Federal Budget 2012
From the Globe and Mail's Infographic
Finally getting to look over the Budget
My first thought - Why are we talking about pennies when we should be talking dollars and sense?
Canada's Budget - 2012
Quick update to the Facebook generation on today's budget. Your parents get to retire at 65, you'll have to work til your 67.
Your parents have all the wealth, you have record student debt, twice the unemployment rate and face unaffordable housing.
Your parents support industrial projects like the tarsands, you don't. Our government is changing legislation that puts our environment at risk - short term economic gain for our ecological pain.
Directly and indirectly, today's federal budget is generational warfare and because we don't vote, we lose.
I think it is a great idea!
Participation Budget from CBC's The Current
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will deliver the federal budget later today. What would happen if your plans were actually included in Flaherty's? There is a growing movement called participatory budgeting where the citizens actually do decide where to spend and what to cut.
So you wanna be finance minister? Our game lets you try balancing Ottawa's books
Few issues stick to governments more than their ability to balance a budget. Today, Jim Flaherty releases a budget that aims to reassure Canadian taxpayers that his government is committed to returning to the black within a few years. But what does it take to eliminate the deficit? We've created a game that gives readers a taste of the decision making involved.
Read more on the methodology.
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