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Tax avoidance isn’t just bad apples – systemic poaching requires systemic fixes
In addition to facilitating tax evasion by individuals, many states vie to attract corporate capital. They do so in two ways: Offering low or zero taxes on the profits generated elsewhere, or luring the economic activity in question to their jurisdiction… attracting individual portfolio capital and corporate paper profits have one thing in common. As the OECD puts it, they “poach” capital from the tax base of the state that has a right to tax this capital
Tags: budget, crime prevention, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Who’s a feminist? It’s complicated …
The general principles of feminism are now embraced by all. Nobody is against gender equality… Nobody is proposing unequal pay for equal work. Nobody thinks violence against women is a good thing… These days, it’s not enough simply to believe in equal rights for women. To call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge the intricate hierarchy of oppression, in which gender is only one factor that shapes women’s lives. There’s also race, sexual orientation, class, ethnicity, ableism and so on.
Tags: ideology, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Gender equality is an opportunity, not a threat
We should not be afraid of the word feminism. Feminism is about equal rights and opportunities for men and women, about everyone having the same choices without facing discrimination based on gender. Equality is not a threat, it is an opportunity. We must not fear equality. It is an essential part of any society that wants to be a leader in sustainable development, clean economic growth, social justice, peace and security.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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Forget the gender pay gap. The class gap is much bigger
Once women have children (or even if they don’t), they tend to take jobs with different characteristics – the ability to work at home, perhaps, or more predictable hours… In elite professions, the cost of “temporal flexibility” is very high… people who wring their hands about the gender pay gap tend to be focused on the professional class, to which they belong. They seldom focus on the occupations in which most women actually work
Tags: child care, economy, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Ontario to end clawback of child support for parents on welfare
Several options are under consideration to ensure parents who receive child support can benefit from more of this income… The change would be in place by April 2017 at the latest… While the government contemplates transforming income security, welfare and disability benefits for more than 907,000 Ontarians will rise by a modest 1.5 per cent this year… Sousa announced an additional $178 million over the next three years to increase affordable housing.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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Canada comes up short at UN review of human-rights issues
First, the government continues to insist that economic, social and cultural rights aren’t fully protected by the Charter, and do not need to be. That flies in the face of international law and is an affront to those individuals and communities whose rights are disregarded… Second, there was no sign of federal leadership to draw the different levels of government in Canada together in a shared model for more effective, accountable and transparent implementation of human rights obligations.
Tags: Health, homelessness, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, rights
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Some Implications of the Liberal Government’s Tax Changes
While the tax reduction was touted as a tax benefit for the ‘middle class,’ the maximum benefit of $679 also extends to every taxpayer with a taxable income greater than $90,563. One quick fix is to increase the marginal tax rate in the 26 percent tax bracket by 1 percentage point, to 27 percent… lower-income Canadians who are excluded from the tax reduction are slated to benefit from the planned increases in child benefits. But the proposed increases in child benefits are greater for middle-income than lower-income families.
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Better is Always Possible: A Federal Plan to Tackle Poverty and Inequality
… the fight to eliminate poverty and inequality is far from over… This paper… proposes the terms of a comprehensive federal poverty reduction plan. If the government is serious about its campaign pledge to bring real economic opportunities to more people, the practical and affordable policy tools outlined here will take them some way toward that goal.
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Ottawa must do more for Indigenous children
… the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s… denunciated Canada for its long-standing racial discrimination against Indigenous children… Even at the height of regional suicide epidemics we see a bureaucratic lethargy or indifference that is chilling… The tribunal may have ruled on the discriminatory application of child welfare services, but that is just one example of the systemic mean-spiritedness that runs through every department that deals with Indigenous Canadians.
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Taxing the rich
… what role does state-sponsored welfare play when the rich refuse to provide employees with enough hours or wages to make a living, and dump the shortcomings in an acceptable living standard onto taxpayers? Stop whacking the rich? Give me a break. / The existence of the one per cent is the trigger for the globalization of illiteracy, unemployment and poverty particularly among the young. Tax the wealthy, by all means.
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