coronavirus debt

The government said that while any overpayments made under the program will “be accrued in the financial accounts of the Department of Employment and Social Development as debts owed to the Crown,” these one-time COVID-19 benefits sent to dead Canadians will not need to be repaid.

On Sharing Your Wealth

Jack June 3, 2021

Federal government sent $9 million worth of COVID relief funding to dead people

We need so many reckonings with the past year. The key reckoning must be with the foul idea that ordinary people have nothing of value to say or contribute in a time of crisis; that democracy is a mere veneer that can occasionally be scrubbed away, rather than the lifeblood of any society that truly wants to remain rational, free and good.

The Hibernation Of Democracy

Jack March 25, 2021

A year of lockdown has had dire consequences for liberty and public life.

Laurentian University has gone into creditor protection, a first in Ontario history, but the pandemic is not all to blame .

COVID Shocks Higher Education

Jack February 15, 2021

Good, it's about time

I can assure you that what we face at this very moment is a very uncertain economic future.

Call It What It Is, A Depression

Jack October 2, 2020

We’re in a depression, not recession — and the scars will take years to...

The crowd was peaceful throughout – and certainly didn’t deserve or provoke the assault by two lines of aggressive police which converged on them suddenly and without warning.

Rebellion In The Air

Jack October 1, 2020

‘Britain Has Thrown Away in Two Months Freedoms That Took 1,500 Years to Acquire’

Billions for a new bailout, the Budget cancelled, a 'wipeout' over home working and diagnosis of other illnesses plummeting... critics lay bare the cost of Boris Johnson's six-month covid clampdown.

UK May Be In Deep Trouble

Jack September 25, 2020

A price we can't afford to pay

There are real problems with the federal response to COVID-19, many of which I’ve documented.

Trouble Ahead?

Jack September 24, 2020

Departures show big problems with Trudeau's COVID response

Funding has been distributed with a fire hose, rather than targeted at those in need.

Political Pandering On Steroids

Jack September 2, 2020

Canada's pandemic response is a fiscal mess

This situation is not unexpected.

Ontario’s Nasty Debt Situation

Jack August 27, 2020

Credit rating agencies wary of growing Ontario debt: FAO

In some ways, you could argue, the economic and social destruction that has been wrought on Britain in the last four months is the revenge of the Brexit losers.

Johnson Is In Big Trouble

Jack August 15, 2020

Britain Is Now the Sick Man of Europe

Another clip showed Fauci saying that even though it's an "inconvenience" to go on lockdown and collapse the economy it's something "we just have to do."

Dr. Fauci, Thy Name Is Mud

Jack August 3, 2020

Tucker Drops a Truth Bomb About Dr. Fauci Being a 'Total Fraud'

We believe any tax on the sale of residential homes would be a betrayal of the vast majority of home buyers who are not speculators, but who have worked long and hard and scrimped and saved to be able to afford home ownership.

Wanna Start A War? This Will Do It

Jack July 20, 2020

Reject capital gains tax on home sales