The current COVID-19 health and economic challenges are unprecedented. The pause being imposed on the Canadian and global economy will large short term costs and likely impose numerous long term challenges as well. Two fifths of Canadians already have lost, and…

Ken Boessenkool is a Conservative activist. He has written political platforms for campaigns or leadership races in the federal Conservative Party, the B.C. Liberal Party, the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party and the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.  My son-in-law Matt works…

Ken Boessenkool is a partner in Kool Topp & Guy Public Affairs. The government of Canada has responded to the economic crisis facing Canadian families by proposing to spend $27-billion dollars, by making existing programs easier to access (employment insurance);…

All conservatives have been intrigued by the spat between the big-c Conservative government and the small-c conservative Fraser Institute over the effectiveness of the federal government’s $47.2-billion Economic Action Plan.

There is a very interesting story buried in the recent TD Bank report on equalization payments, but it’s not the one that generated most of the heat and light. The interesting story got buried as a result of confusing the…