Toronto Sharing the pain is taking on a new meaning in Ontario, Canada’s biggest province, where there are 1 million public employees now enduring a proposed 2-year wage freeze as part of the Liberal party government anti-recessionary measures, and recently the Finance Minister publically agreed that some of these same wage controls should extend to …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Montreal: Co-op City
Montreal Perhaps I was talking to the wrong people, but it started to seem like everywhere I turned I was hearing about a co-op in Montreal. Right across Sherbrooke not far from where I was staying there was of course Coop la Maison Verte, where last fall we had great Citizen Wealth event (and I …
Bring Back 1st Time Tax Credit
New Orleans Shaun Donovan at HUD is clearly having problems getting his arms around the fact that America is not New York, the evidence starting with the horrible failure of the mortgage modification program or rather the lack of a mortgage modification program. Now throwing more words at the housing crises this weekend in pronouncements …