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Thursday, September 27
Tories slash debt; Liberals would have slashed taxes ...
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 27 Sep 2007 03:40 PM EDT
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today that his government is using the giant-sized fiscal surplus to pay down the national debt. In turn, Canada will not need as much money from taxpayers to pay the interest on the debt that's being retired. And, as his Finance Minister promised last fall... more »
There are 33 million of us!
by
DavidAkin
on Thu 27 Sep 2007 10:25 AM EDT
Statscan this morning published the latest population estimates for the country. The agency believes that, at July 1 of this year, Canada could count 32,967,000 citizens, which is about one per cent more than the same point last year.
Alberta's population is growing fastest at 3.1 per cent year-over-year while ... more » |
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