Liberals table bill to ban replacement workers in federally regulated workplaces | CBC News

Published: 14 November 2023

November 9, 2023 | The federal government has announced carbon-tax exemptions for household heating and Chris Ragan joined Power & Politics to talk about these exemptions. Chris Ragan has...

Chris Ragan on carbon pricing policy changes | IHeart Radio

Published: 2 November 2023

Chris Ragan joins Vassy Kapelos to weigh in on the Trudeau government's recent carbon tax carve-outs and shares on the current situation. ...

Carbon-Pricing Exemptions Are the Wrong Way to Keep Energy Affordable | National Newswatch

Published: 17 October 2023

October 17, 2023 | The federal government is under pressure to carve out exemptions to its carbon pricing system, particularly for rural home-heating fuel in Atlantic Canada. Keeping essentials...

With inflation cooling, politicians turn up the heat to address Canada’s affordability crisis | The Globe and Mail

Published: 26 September 2023

September 16, 2023 | On September 6 the Bank of Canada decided to hold interest rates steady after two years of high inflation and 18 months of rising interest rates. The premiers of Ontario,...

Economics lessons will pay life-long dividends to understand how any marketplace works | The Globe and Mail

Published: 19 September 2023

September 14, 2023 | In an opinion piece by David Parkinson he talks about the influx of students that are going to have their first serious exposure to economics in a university setting. He has...

The Excessive Cost of “Phasing Out” Canada’s Oil and Gas Production

5 Jun 2023

Chris Ragan, Paul Rochon, and Mark Jaccard highlight the consequences of phasing out Canada's oil and gas production in the aims of achieving net zero emissions by 2050.

Amidst a swirling tide of new ideas, Canada's economic institutions remain bastions of orthodoxy | the Hub

Published: 23 May 2023

May 23, 2023 | New and often radical ideas have emerged about how much governments can spend and how trade should be conducted following COVID-19 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Chris Ragan says...

Budget watchdog troubled by spin around latest report on carbon pricing | CTV News

Published: 11 April 2023

April 8, 2023 | Yves Giroux opened a political firestorm last week with a new report that concluded carbon price rebates are worth more than the direct cost of the carbon price for 80 per cent of...

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