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Let’s end the period taboo: Making menstrual products available is about dignity, nothing less

Tuesday, May 28th, 2019

Even with the products being tax exempt, they are unaffordable and inaccessible to some. Affordability and access need to be separately considered… Despite hoarding menstrual products in every nook and cranny possible, we all get caught from time to time without access to products. This is about helping women who are caught be able to finish their day without bleeding through their pants. It is about dignity.

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A simple way to tax the rich

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

March 9, 2012
While income earned from stock options is deemed to be ordinary income under our tax laws, a special deduction was created in 1984 (paragraph 110(1)(d)) which allows individuals to deduct 50 per cent of the income derived from exercising stock options. That is, only half of the employment benefit from stock options is subject to tax… The purpose of paragraph 110(1)(d) was to encourage more widespread use of employee stock option plans… there is no evidence the deduction achieved its stated goals… the entire deduction should either be eliminated… or a holding period should be attached to the exercised shares in order to qualify for the deduction.

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