Thank the bank but hold the standing ovation

 by Greg MacDougall and Steve Saunders As Ottawa’s winter slowly transitions to spring, and a young Senators team tantalizes fans with glimpses of a promising future, hockey fans debate the relative merits of Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews and Patrick Kane as winner of the Hart Memorial trophy, emblematic of the

Canadians are staring into a debt abyss

 by Greg MacDougall and Steve Saunders of Government Analytics While Covid-19 hit the Canadian economy like a sledgehammer last March, its impact can now be likened to that of a slow motion 1998 Ottawa Ice Storm or 2013 Calgary flood; it’s not simply a phase of the business cycle or