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Canada’s high-income earners are not overtaxed—report
OTTAWA—Despite recent reports to the contrary, Canada’s high-income earners do not pay a disproportionately large share of personal income tax. A new analysis by Prof.…
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The Share of Income Tax Paid by the Rich
The Business Press Gives another Lesson on How to Deceive with Statistics Download 115.45 KB7 pages About the authorNeil Brooks
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FastFacts: Condos in the Park
Easy Cash – Bad Public Policy Download 33.67 KB About the authorShauna MacKinnon
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Free money? Think twice.
Free money for everyone when the Finance Minister makes a mistake! I’m referring of course to the government’s proposal to give a third of “unanticipated“…
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Alberta’s oil wealth
Is there a constitutional fix? For years now, provincial governments have complained about a “fiscal imbalance” in reference to Ottawa’s ongoing surpluses while many provinces…
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The O’Neill Report on Federal Fiscal Forecasting
The dilemmas created by the government’s “no-deficit” fiscal rule Download 95.35 KB4 pages About the authorEllen Russell
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In whose hands is our energy policy?
Energy ministers from across Canada recently met in St. Andrews, N.B. Media coverage of the meeting noted that the agenda included golf and a lobster…
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Children need greater protection in the world of work
Two years ago the provincial government made dramatic changes to BC’s child labour rules, relaxing the laws and regulations that govern the hiring of children…
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October 2005: Victims of a Neoliberal Mega-Storm
Hurricane Katrina exposes the fatal flaws of U.S. individualism Most of the media coverage of the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Katrina focused on the desperate…
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October 2005: The Three E’s: Ecology, Education, Economy
We’ve got our priorities all wrong. Ecology should always come first If we consider matters carefully, we would be wise to stop exalting our economic…
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October 2005: Supreme Court Jeopardizes Women’s Right to Health
Jurists’ private insurance ruling especially negative for women On June 9, 2005, a bare majority of justices of the Supreme Court (four of seven) overturned…
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October 2005: The New Economic World Order (Part II: China)
Amazingly rapid economic growth has made China “world’s workshop” China’s economic ascent over the last two-and-a-half decades has been nothing short of astounding. It now…
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