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Canada’s CEO Elite 100
The 0.01% Download 693.88 KB 21 pages The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual look at CEO compensation reveals that by 12:00 noon on January…
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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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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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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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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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