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How Rich Canadians Got Even Richer
Monday, August 25th, 2025
During the first quarter of 2025, the top 40 per cent of Canadian households captured 66.2 per cent of all after-tax income in Canada. The bottom 40 per cent shared just 17.2 per cent of income. It was a record gap, up 11.9 per cent from four years ago… Statistics Canada highlights two main factors driving inequality. First, high-income households saw huge gains from property income — money made from investments in real estate, stocks and other assets. And second, the compensation for Canada’s highest earners is rising much faster than the salaries and wages of other Canadians.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Why do we keep letting Canada’s ultrarich use tax havens to stash wealth?
Friday, July 25th, 2025
The Tax Justice Network has estimated that international tax abuse costs Canada about $15-billion in revenue every year. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, that’s enough to fund both our new dental care program and a single-payer universal national pharmacare program… Mr. Carney needs to end a near-universally loathed loophole that only the wealthiest people and largest corporations in Canada can take advantage of…
Tags: budget, economy, featured, standard of living, tax
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The rich say boosting the capital gains tax will hurt productivity, but it’s just not true. Time to do a little myth-busting
Monday, June 17th, 2024
Most academic economists support a higher inclusion rate, partly because it levels the playing field between different types of capital income. But the best motivation is $20 billion in revenue it will raise over five years, to support modest new programs announced in this budget. This will help fund school lunches, affordable housing initiatives, dental care and disability benefits — while still respecting Freeland’s fiscal “guardrails.”
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Wealthy Canadians get huge tax breaks, even with budget changes to capital gains
Thursday, April 25th, 2024
The tax system is much tougher on working people, who make up the vast majority of Canadians, including almost everyone in the lower and middle class. Working people pay taxes on their full working incomes, with few exemptions, and their taxes are deducted before they even receive their paycheques. Then there are those who own capital — stocks, bonds and other property… “A buck is a buck is a buck.” The budget’s tax changes are a small but important step in that direction.
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Liberals tax the rich, but not enough to be considered populist
Thursday, April 18th, 2024
… in recent decades, business interests have strong-armed governments into redesigning the marketplace to favour their own interests, through tax and regulatory changes, and the rewriting of labour laws to disempower workers. These “neo-liberal” changes haven’t brought us the productivity gains that were promised, but they have made us a much less equal society… We need to reverse the “neo-liberal” policies that are responsible for such extreme inequality.
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Canada should support G20 plan to tax billionaires
Thursday, March 7th, 2024
In an unprecedented development, the G20 has announced it is exploring the idea of co-ordinating efforts to ensure the world’s billionaires pay annual taxes worth at least 2 per cent of their wealth… By co-operating, the world’s leading economies could curb the ability of the superrich to play countries off against each other, and incentivize nations to tax their own billionaires… It’s a plan Freeland should support, even enthusiastically champion.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Why this court ruling is a human-rights victory for international students
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
By determining that unfair treatment based on permanent residency is a form of discrimination on the basis of citizenship, the Court of Appeal established human-rights protection for international students under the Code… international students should know that they are not alone in their fight against discrimination — and that “citizenship” may not be the insurmountable job-qualification criterion it used to be.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, participation, rights
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Canada’s Gender Pandemic Response: Did it Measure Up?
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
Canada introduced unprecedented relief measures in the early days of the pandemic to offset the huge losses resulting from necessary public health closures. Looking back, how did those measures stack up? Did they address the pandemic’s heavy toll on women and other marginalized communities? … The imperative now is to apply the lessons of COVID-19 in service of a more sustainable, resilient and gender-just future…
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, poverty, women
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Canadian CEO pay soars to a new all-time high due to inflation: report
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
They now make 243 times more than the average worker wage in Canada… While inflation hurts workers, it’s great for corporate profit that have hit historic highs. When profits go up, executive bonuses are driven way up… This report proposes four policy solutions for governments to address this rampant income inequality between the rich and the rest of us through taxation measures…
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It’s the 40th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but recent protests show a serious misunderstanding of what those mean
Friday, April 15th, 2022
On the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Charter, it is important to reflect on the rights Canadians share and, more importantly, understand that these rights entail responsibilities to each other. Perhaps if misunderstandings about rights and freedoms were clarified, there would be a greater sense of unity.
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