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Tax system needs a good cleanup
… the working income tax credit, the disability tax credit, the caregiver tax credit and the child tax credit — have commendable objectives. But suppose Canada had a leader with the courage to eliminate all the loopholes that didn’t serve a public purpose or meet any real need… Federal revenues would go up by an immediate $3.4 billion ($5.9 billion if Harper’s two latest tax breaks are included). That would be enough to produce a comfortable surplus… and alleviate the cost-cutting that has become a permanent feature of federal budget-making.
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The tax axe is hovering over Canada’s wealthy
The modern rise in inequality has been disguised, in a sense, by the huge increase in women’s participation rates in the workforce since the late 1970s. Household incomes have benefited accordingly. But the average couple with children is working harder to stay afloat than it did, say, in 1967… the soaring income inequality of the 1930s was reversed by governments that required the rich to pay a greater share. In Canada now that would mean establishing a new marginal income tax rate above the current 29 per cent, for anyone earning $135,000 or more.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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We can all take some credit for helping the rich get richer
… there are lots of ideas for reducing inequality. Some… quite simple and workable. Knowing what to do is not the issue. The issue, as usual, is the political will to attack the problem frontally. The NDP is so far proposing a distinctly modest increase in corporate taxes, which is more than its opponents. As of now, with an election less than a year away, the big winner once again, and still champion, is inequality.
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Good news on the reserve [policing]
Compared to non-aboriginals the overall crime rate of aboriginals is 3.8 times higher, violent crime 5.8 times higher, assault 7 times higher, sexual assault 5.4 times higher, and drug trafficking 3.8 times higher… FNAs [First Nations Authorities] can be viewed as a particularly successful model for aboriginal communities. Good examples include the Six Nations Police Service and Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service in Ontario.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Child welfare system rigged against black families
A discriminatory child welfare framework exists that penalizes African Canadian families living in poverty — suggesting that parents who work multiple part-time jobs are unfit parents… racism has resulted in the disproportionate levels of African Canadian child welfare apprehensions and cross-cultural foster care placements… It is now time to create structures within the existing system to analyze and address repeated problems experienced by African Canadian children in child welfare.
Tags: child care, ideology, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, youth
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Ontario’s expansion of legal aid funding is a step toward fairness
The system is complicated; there are several different thresholds, depending on the size of a family accessing help and the type of legal assistance required. But, in general, this 10-year plan constitutes important reform. Thresholds were last changed in 1996…the newly announced increase still denies legal aid service to a great many people living below Ontario’s poverty line – currently pegged at $19,930 for an individual…The province is also seriously constrained by lack of federal support.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Stacking the odds against First Nations families
First Nations families and communities… need equitable government resources to do more… Ottawa’s current approach is stacking the odds against our children. It’s time for the federal government to fight for, not against, equity and justice for children. It’s time to face the truth. Action starts with fairness and opportunity for every child. And it must start now.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Why Canada avoids asking about race, and why that’s a problem
Statscan decided to choose between either race or immigration status. (The U.S. and U.K. labour force surveys manage to include both.) An alternative view is that poorer socio-economic outcomes for immigrants are easier to explain away as poorer assimilation rather than as racism. Including both race and immigration status would allow researchers to factor for assimilation effects, and focus on the impact of racial discrimination.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Rising income inequality the “new normal”: study
… the OECD… study highlights the explosive rise of incomes in the top 1% over the last 30 years, and their growing share as compared to the bottom 90% and 99%. Authored by eminent Canadian economist and Broadbent Fellow Lars Osberg, it argues “there is no natural upper bound to the real incomes of the top 1% and thus no natural upper bound to their income gap with median households.” … another recent study that found that Canada’s top 1% accounted for 13.3% of all reported individual income in 2011, up from 12% a decade earlier.
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Canada’s aboriginal well-being efforts ‘insufficient,’ UN envoy says
He urges the federal government to: Consult aboriginal people and address any ”any outstanding concerns” related to Bill C-33, the government’s First Nations education bill; Launch “a comprehensive, nationwide inquiry” into the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women; Ensure the mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is extended; Take “urgent action” to address the housing crisis both on and off reserves; Provide “sufficient funding” for services both on and off reserves, including in areas of education, health and child welfare
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