Category Archives: Canada

Poli 610:Macro-economic theory and policy after Keynes and the crash of 2008

Posted on September 6, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

Pol. 610  Macro-economic policy-making after Keynes Concordia University fall, 2012 Prof. H. Chorney tel. 848 2424 ext.2106  e mail Chorney@alcor.concordia.ca Office hours tba This course is an intensive examination of macro-economic policy-making and macro-economic theory in the light of recent … Continue reading →

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CROP Québec election telephone poll PQ 33%;CAQ28%; PLQ 26%; Undecided 18 %

Posted on August 28, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

The latest poll in the Québec election conducted by CROP using a weighted sample survey  of 1002 telephone interviews with a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points 19 times out of 20 appears to confirm the PQ vote at … Continue reading →

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Québec Liberals lose ground to CAQ; PQ up slightly in latest polls

Posted on August 17, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

The Québec electoral horse race just grew more complex with the latest polls showing a narrowing of the gap between the Liberals and the CAQ with the PQ pulling slightly further ahead. The poll done by well established  Québec pollsters … Continue reading →

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Premier Charest calls election September 4th :PQ and Liberals neck and neck

Posted on August 1, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

Premier Jean Charest the leader of the provincial Quebec Liberal party has called a provincial election for September 4, 2012. The last election was held December 8, 2008. Charest won last time with a small majority of the seats. But … Continue reading →

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Spanish banks bail out, French parliamentary elections, Unemployment rises in Europe,Canadian unemployment stable but still too elevated.

Posted on June 12, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

A lot of information to process. Most of it not good. The best although mixed news comes from France where the first round of the parliamentary elections showed a strong showing by Francois Hollande’s socialist party which garnered about 29.35% … Continue reading →

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The Ghost of Maurice Duplessis

Posted on May 19, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

The Québec conflict over access to higher education and the refusal of the embattled Liberal party government of Jean Charest to compromise the principal of a major increase in fees has reached a critical point. With the adoption by the … Continue reading →

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Vive le Québec social et progressif ! : the conflict over higher university tuition fees in Québec

Posted on April 14, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

There has been a significant clash over values and higher education taking place in Québec over the past few weeks. There is an on going student strike and there  have been daily demonstrations at many of the university campuses in … Continue reading →

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NDP Chooses its New Leader:Thomas Mulcair 33 881 votes

Posted on March 25, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

The Canadian social democratic movement has had 10 leaders in its history ever since the CCF was founded in 1932 in its founding convention in Calgary. All of them including Hazen Argue who switched to the Liberals after the CCF … Continue reading →

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NDP Leadership Ballot :Nathan Cullen in third place after first ballot a welcome development for possible NDP Liberal co-operation.

Posted on March 24, 2012 by haroldchorneyeconomist

The first ballot results in the Canadian federal NDP leadership race have been announced. Because of the NDP’ s position as official opposition this leadership contest in Canada’s social democratic party is of critical importance in Canadian politics. The first … Continue reading →

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Keynes:Alive and Well

Posted on October 18, 2011 by haroldchorneyeconomist

Way back in 1996 I wrote an op ed piece for the business pages of the Toronto Globe and Mail in response to the anti-Keynesian musings of Terence Corcoran a business columnist for the Globe and Mail who was convinced … Continue reading →

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