The Trailer Park Boys and Jonathan Torrens rallied with at least 1,000 protesters outside the Nova Scotia legislature Wednesday, while inside, the finance minister defended her government's decision to kill most of the province's film tax credit.
They would still own the 40 acres between the edge of the proposed development and downtown, inside the financing district where land values would be expected to rise markedly.
With those funds gone, any notion of turning Moscow into a global financial centre a favourite talking point of Mr Medvedev's presidency would probably be finished.Virtually all Russia's best economists, as well as the technocrats inside the finance ministry, have warned against cutting the funded pillar.
It's rare for a leading economist, especially one from deep inside the finance sector itself, to weigh in with a resounding "yes!" But that's the conclusion of University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales, who states bluntly that there's nothing in theory or practice "to support the notion that all the growth of the financial sector in the last 40 years has been beneficial to society".
Sure, in a few months we might all be turning our Levi's inside out and the finance bros will start wearing multiple neckties, but at the moment we're stuck with the same fashion scenes as 2014.
The government has put forward plans for a financial policy committee (FPC) inside the Bank of England to monitor the finances and activities of systemically important banks.
That brings total funding since the company was founded in 2005 to $116 million, with the financing coming from inside and outside investors.
Lawyers and analysts say the tax authorities could go after billions more through other proposals that were tucked inside the budget presented by the finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, on Friday.
But inside Germany, and particularly in the finance ministry, there is still a good deal of skepticism about Macron, and his ability to deliver meaningful changes.
