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Social Insurance Benefits Increase for 2012
Amidst the plethora of media reports on “payroll tax” increases for 2012, there was little mention of increases in benefits. For example, the Toronto Sun, cued by…
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Predictions
Hennessy’s Index: A number is never just a number Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA’s Trish Hennessy, about Canada…
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Tackling inequality means rethinking upper-income tax rates
2011 was the year rising inequality finally exploded into the mainstream discourse. A few year-end reading recommendations: Victoria Times-Colonist editorial writer Paul Willcocks wrote a…
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Flaherty’s Christmas List — all Mixed Up
Following recent dismal reports on rising unemployment, stagnant GDP growth, and a deteriorating economic outlook, we can only hope federal Finance minister Jim Flaherty will provide some Christmas…
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GDP: Canada Goose Egg
This morning, Statistics Canada reported zero economic growth in October. While growth had been driven by strong mining and fossil-fuel exports during the third quarter, Canadians got a…
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Reflections on the year past and the year to come: Inequality explodes into the public discourse
If this past year — marked by the Arab Spring and the fall arrival of the Occupy movement — has taught us anything, it is…
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Taxing Capital Gains
The following also appears in The Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab: Earlier this week, Kevin Milligan questioned proposals “to increase the tax on capital gains.” Currently, Canadian income tax…
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Fast Facts: Selling City Golf Courses to Developers
A Permanent Loss October 26, 2011 was the deadline for developers to make proposals for seven large pieces of prime real estate scattered across Winnipeg. …
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Is Money Enough? The Meaning of 6% and Flaherty’s Health “Plan”
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Government intervention needed to address youth unemployment
The Canadian Federation of Students, and most of the people we have spoken to, is at a loss over how the government thinks it can…
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Modest Inflation Outstrips Wages and Canada Social Transfer
Statistics Canada reported today that the annual inflation rate remained 2.9% and the Bank of Canada’s core rate remained 2.1% in November. The monthly increase in consumer…
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Business dominated think tank winds up with report showing little progress in BC
The British Columbia Progress Board came out with its last report today. Gordon Campbell started the think tank in 2001 and now Christy Clark has…
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