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Addressing indigenous issues requires change at every level
… truth be told, we would not have made the progress that has been made without courts and tribunals insisting the Canadian constitution’s modest recognition of treaty and equality rights… Equality is expensive… stronger regional and tribal governments — and a determined willingness to work together. The Indian Act has divided First Nations, and this is hurting everyone, first and foremost indigenous people themselves.
Tags: budget, featured, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Why free-marketers should support a new tax on health and dental plans — on one condition
The solution is a “tax swap,” whereby the government ceases treating workplace health and dental insurance as non-taxable and in turn uses the resulting revenues to establish a new refundable tax credit to help defray the costs of buying private insurance. The new tax credit might involve a redesign of the existing Medical Expense Tax Credit and would be available to all Canadians, irrespective of their employment circumstances, including in the form of a cash transfer for low-income citizens who don’t pay income taxes.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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The tax man eyes the One Percenters in white coats as doctors’ pay keeps climbing
There are several ways in which small businesses can be used to shield income from personal income taxes. Since income taxes are only paid on the salaries the owners pay themselves, revenues can accumulate in CCPCs at the much lower small business tax rate that applies to profits less than the $500,000 threshold. There are several ways that this money can be accessed without paying taxes at the top personal income tax rate.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, tax
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How to make ‘nation to nation’ relationship genuine
… a simple five-point plan for addressing a challenge to Canada… 1. Adopt the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples… 2. Make the chief of the Assembly of First Nations a de facto member of cabinet… 3. Make the use of select First Nations languages in Parliament a right… 4. Make the completion of a course in aboriginal studies a mandatory requirement to matriculate from high school… 5. Create and enforce a commons law uniting trails, reserves and national parks.
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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The cost of poverty affects us all
… the biggest barrier to ending poverty is the political orthodoxy we have lived by for the past 40 years: that good government is small government, that social programs must shrink, and that taxes are evil. It is over this period we have seen the most dramatic rise in poverty rates and income inequality… I’d be more than happy to pay more taxes if I knew that money would help my community to be healthier and happier.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Canada’s gender equality regression is a problem that must be solved
… Canada was reported late last month to have plunged from first place to 35th place in the global rankings of gender equality. The decline has been gradual, dating from the 2000s, but steady… • Women in Canada earn about $8,000 less per year than men doing work of equal value… • According to the United Nations, the Canadian gender gap in pay is twice the global average.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Ottawa should stop wasting billions on stock benefits for the rich
Since its introduction in 1984, the loophole has primarily benefited the very rich at a great cost to the public purse… Despite the tax break’s stated purpose, its beneficiaries are not primarily the employees of small, risky start-ups. They are, for instance, top bankers or the heads of mining and telecommunications corporations, the richest of the rich. In fact, more than 90 per cent of the benefit goes to the top 1 per cent of earners.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, tax
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Did racism and sexism elect Trump?
… most women reject the narrow, intolerant identity politics of today’s feminism. The big thing the Democrats and the media don’t get is that class trumps gender. Most women are not preoccupied with the glass ceiling, or what percentage of vastly overpaid CEOs and elite board members happen to be women. What they want are decent part-time jobs so that they can afford to stay home with the kids.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Something Canadians can agree on: making life better for indigenous people
… more than one in two Canadians (54 per cent) cited raising the standard of living for indigenous peoples to the same level as other Canadians… followed by ensuring that government decisions and the laws of Canada respect the legal rights of indigenous peoples (25 per cent)… regardless of their age, gender or region.
Tags: budget, child care, corrections, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Putting indigenous communities under suicide watch is no answer
The principal difference between healthy and unhealthy places… is “cultural continuity” – things like having title over land, self-government, control of health and education services, and strong cultural practices… suicide rates are far lower where people have a sense of belonging, self-worth and resiliency – the very things that the Indian Act, residential schools, the Sixties Scoop and other initiatives set out to destroy by isolating and fencing in nomadic groups, breaking up families, banning cultural practices and choking off traditional languages.
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