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Re-litigating New Brunswick’s Tax Credits

Note: A version of this post appeared in the Telegraph-Journal (paywall applies) To Fredericton, where the new Conservative Government had its Throne Speech on Tuesday.  The key line for post-secondary education (which, for the most part, was ignored) was this one:  Your government will undertake an evidence-based review of existing programs supporting post-secondary education and compare and contrast their effectiveness with the canceled broad-based tax credits.  (nb. the tax credits were cut to create a Targeted Free Tuition program, described here among other

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November 22, 2018 No Comments

Ford’s Francophone Fracas

FordLate last week, Ontario Finance Minister Vic Fedeli delivered a mid-year economic statement.  There wasn’t a whole lot of news in it, to be honest.  For the most part, it was a final government statement about how bad the previous government had been and a re-statement of actions taken to date.  There were repetitions about the need to get to a balanced budget and to reduce electricity rates, but no timetables for either were given.  But there were a few things

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November 21, 2018 1 Comment

Better Northern Higher Education Strategy

Higher education strategy in the Canadian north is tricky. Challenges include from the huge distances, the tiny populations, and the responsibility to support Indigenous populations with specific cultural, educational and scientific needs.  The fact that the North is divided into three different territories, each with its own college, fractures the system still further.  And then add on to this the fact that every college and territory also wants to hand out degrees as well, and you get a system which is

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November 20, 2018 No Comments

Wānangas, Tribal Colleges, and Canadian Indigenous PSE Institutions

A little over a year ago, Ontario brought in legislation to create the country’s first system of Indigenous universities.  In the upcoming federal budget, it seems possible that the Government of Canada may look at ways to finance Indigenous post-secondary education as well.  The question I want to look at today is what model or models of Indigenous higher education Canada might want to borrow from when developing its own system(s). Internationally, there are essentially three models for systems of

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November 16, 2018 No Comments

The Balance of Federal-Provincial Expenditures

Today, I am going to try to pull all this data together to see to what extent federal and provincial shares of expenditure in PSE have changed over time. As far as institutional expenditures go, the presence of federal indirect transfers complicates a good historical look at the question.  Up until 1976, it’s possible to look directly at cash and tax transfers specifically designated for PSE, and it is possible again after 2007-08 when the Harper Government carved out a

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November 9, 2018 No Comments

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