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Le Nouveau-Brunswick est à une croisée des chemins
L’impôt progressif, un choix clair Le Nouveau-Brunswick est à une croisée des chemins. Adopter un système d’impôt progressif est le choix clair. En augmentant les…
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How to destroy a good poverty line
More than a decade ago, the federal and provincial governments started work on a new poverty line – the Market Basket Measure (MBM). After decades…
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McGuinty’s Business Tax Breaks
An interesting nugget in last week’s Drummond report is Table 11.1, an updated version of Table 2 from “Ontario’s Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth” (2009). It provides…
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Deflating Drummond
Statistics Canada reported today that consumer prices jumped in January (by 0.4% or 0.5% seasonally-adjusted), offsetting the drop in December. As a result, the annual inflation rate is now…
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EI Shrank by 100,000 in 2011
Statistics Canada reported today that the number of Canadians receiving Employment Insurance rose by 4,230 in December, a month in which unemployment rose by 6,100. The proportion of unemployed…
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“Mass staff replacements” in seniors’ care: impacts and solutions
Deep in the second volume of the BC Ombudsperson’s recently-released second report on seniors’ care, is an interesting and important discussion about large-scale staff replacements and…
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Drummond: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Drummond Commission reported today. The Good While the McGuinty government prevented the Commission from considering tax rates, it proposes some sensible measures to raise revenue. Chapter 18,…
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Statistics For Democracy
Statistics Canada is sometimes unfairly blamed for decisions made pursuant to budget cuts and to political direction, most notably in the decision to replace the…
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Cone of Silence Descends on Federal Cuts
The federal government has further lowered its “cone of silence” over the implications of federal cuts today. Treasury Board has instructed all departments to remove any implications…
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BC government response to Ombudsperson’s report seriously inadequate: seniors care expert
(Vancouver) BC Ombudsperson Kim Carter’s report on the crisis in seniors care, released Wednesday, provides “an extraordinarily thorough, precise and do-able roadmap for rebuilding BC’s…
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Stranded in suburbia
Planning for aging populations Download 3.68 MB One of the most significant demographic changes in modern history is on the verge of occurring. Children born…
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