Wednesday-Night

U.S. Presidential Campaign: Candidates & Issues
John McCain: Economic Stimulus Plan
Barack Obama: The Economy
June 13
Obama Moves To The Center
Obama’s most provocative move in terms of economic policy has been to hire Jason Furman, who runs the relatively centrist Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution as his staff director for economic policy.
Furman brings with him, […]

February 26, 2008
Government of Canada Federal Budget

(CBC News) Flaherty delivers ‘prudence’ in 2008 budget
Budget thin on major initiatives
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty brought down a budget Tuesday that was short on big spending pledges but one he called “prudent” while facing the prospect of a slowing economy.
“Some would have us go down the path to higher […]

Margaret Lefebvre will introduce her colleague and good friend, George Kesteven, president of the Canadian Association of Income Funds (CAIF) - an organization with dwindling membership in the face of the Conservatives’ taxation policy with regard to income trusts.
Director of Investor Relations for PrimeWest Energy Trust since 2001, George is in a unique position […]

February 15, 2008
(The Economist) George Bush signed an economic stimulus package that will supply $168 billion—$152 billion of it this spring. The measure forms part of a government endeavour to stave off a recession in America. It ensures that rebates of up to $1,200 will be posted to households and also […]

Sharing the spoils
Nov 6th 2007
From Economist.com
OIL prices seem to hit a new peak each week. This is good news for governments, which take a cut of revenues. And coffers will swell further as companies explore new sources of oil that had previously been too pricey to extract, such as oil sands in Alberta, Canada. The […]

31 October 2007
Income trust investors still angry one year later
… It was one year ago that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty stunned the investment community by announcing the Conservative government would bring in a tax on income trusts by 2011 — reversing a campaign pledge made months earlier to leave them untaxed.
The wrath of the hundreds […]

More and photos
This Wednesday we have a very special guest: Andrea Mandel-Campbell, author of Why Mexicans Don’t Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Companies From the Suds of Global Obscurity, which has been stirring up a lot of media excitement since its appearance. In it she examines why Canadian companies have failed to compete on a […]

Isn’t the summer weather lovely? So lovely in fact that we are having a very hard time concentrating on serious matters (although last Wednesday’s discussion provides plenty of food for on-going thought).
After all the build-up to and frenzied reporting of the G8 Summit, the Economist tells us that this week’s news will likely include:
—Israel’s choice […]

28 March 2007

Like most candidates, we had two versions of this invitation ready, however, neither version could do justice to last night’s final outcome. Therefore, we are delighted that Yves Séguin , former MLA for Outremont and Minister of Finance of Québec, as well as PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION ON FISCAL IMBALANCE (whose report was […]

There are those among us who, despite Don MacDonald’s column in Monday’s Gazette, think that Income Trusts are still THE story.
Die-hard political junkies are fixated on the Liberal leadership race despite (or perhaps because of) the latest Ipsos Reid findings that “Sixty per cent of Canadians say the Liberals aren’t ready to govern […]