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Stars and Dogs: How Senior Governments Rank on Fiscal Transparency

  • Financial reporting by Canada’s senior governments has improved over time, but setbacks and…
<time datetime="2021-02-25T00:00:01-05:00">February 25, 2021</time>

Perplexing Budgets Overstate Financial Pain of Cities

  • William B.P. Robson and Miles Wu look at the annual budgetary projections for spending and the bottom line in…
<time datetime="2021-01-21T00:00:01-05:00">January 21, 2021</time>
  • Outdated practices make the budgets of too many Canadian cities impossible for non-experts to understand.
  • In this report, authors William B.P. Robson and Miles Wu grade the clarity…
Intelligence Memos
From: John Lester To: Members of the Treasury Board  Date: April 8, 2024 Re: The federal expenditure management system needs a makeover The federal expenditure management…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson To: Toronto budget watchers Date: January 23, 2024 Re: Toronto’s Annual Budget Panic Ignores Its Surplus The annual panic over the City of Toronto budget is…
Op-Ed
The annual panic over the City of Toronto budget is peaking. The 2024 version stands out in a bad way, with a double-digit tax increase proposed for homeowners and many businesses. Yet much of the…