One of my favourite lines from the 1993 movie Philadelphia is, “Explain this to me like I’m a six-year-old.” I’ve used that line often during my 30-plus years in the tax profession to encourage people ...

Don Drummond is fellow-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and Stauffer-Dunning fellow at Queen’s University. Alexandre Laurin is vice-president and director of Research at C.D. Howe Institute.

Centre Block and the Peace Tower are seen past a metal fence along the lawn of Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang A new report from Canada’s fiscal ...

On Sept. 2, Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed Jason Jacques, a director general in the budget watchdog's office, as the interim PBO for the next six months. (Credit: Parliamentary Budget ...

It was Saturday night on Labour Day weekend when Jason Jacques’ phone rang. It was the Prime Minister’s Office looking for a parliamentary budget officer to carry over for the next six months. “You ...

“Officially, within the office, I don’t know if the government currently has fiscal anchors,” said interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques. “Which, of course, causes the people that I work ...

There will not be a new permanent parliamentary budget officer when the budget is released this fall, the Prime Minister’s Office has confirmed. In an email, PMO spokesperson Audrey Champoux said the ...

A performance boost can be achieved with just a few clicks — without the need for traditional overclocking. AMD’s Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) provides a simple way to enhance Ryzen CPU performance ...

Bed nets treated with pyrethroid insecticides are an effective way to reduce malaria transmission and have been deployed across Africa. However, mosquitoes that spread malaria are now developing ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, ...

OTTAWA — Parliament’s fiscal watchdog is projecting that the Canada Infrastructure Bank will fall more than $20 billion short of its investment targets for the coming years. In a new report released ...

The case was filed by David Calleb Otieno, the Civil Society Reference Group and the National Public Benefit Organizations Consortium. It challenged provisions of the PBO Act that came into force in ...