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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Can Canadians afford a government that cares more about private corporations and tax cuts for the super-rich than it does about everyday working people? Can we risk electing a government that refuses to address the climate catastrophe? Can we accept a government that is prepared to exploit people’s fear and insecurity to fuel racism and intolerance?
Tags: economy, ideology, multiculturalism, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Monday, September 2nd, 2019
Andrew Scheer… (is) following the lead of “populist” politicians like Donald Trump and Doug Ford, who dismantle public services and abandon social responsibility by preaching “me” instead of “we.” Scheer could have chosen the slogan “Time for us to get ahead.” But he didn’t.
Tags: ideology, privatization, tax
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
“Basically I went out and rage-bought 5,000 stickers,” Moed said, adding that he feels the Ford government’s stickers tell “half the story” by not including information about rebates that go hand in hand with the federal carbon levy. “It’s a lie by omission. It’s misleading and I wanted to take some direct action against it,” he said.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, participation
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
“Critical thinking doesn’t mean we disparage everything; it means we try to distinguish between claims with evidence and those without,” he said. There is plenty of available material for arming ourselves against disinformation. Mustering the will to do so should be easy when the stakes are considered. History shows that trusting in falsehood can have dire, even catastrophic consequences.
Tags: globalization, ideology, participation
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Sunday, September 1st, 2019
It is estimated that up to $80 billion leaves Canada every year, untaxed. Much of it is siphoned off to Canadian-made offshore tax havens. This film documents the birth of the Canadian Tax Fairness movement and examines the issue of tax avoidance, exposing the sophisticated corporate strategies and tax loopholes commonly used to legally avoid tax.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Sunday, August 25th, 2019
A less-partisan, more independent Senate is the right direction for the further reform and modernization of the institution and for the broad public legitimacy that is required for the legislative body to play its role as a chamber of sober second thought. Senators may not be running for election every four years, but we are running for the Senate’s credibility and legitimacy each and every day that we serve in Parliament.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, Senate
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Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
Ford said some of this year’s planned cuts — to public health, child care and land ambulance funding — will take effect Jan. 1… The new plan will see all municipalities — including Toronto — pay 30 per cent of public health care costs… municipalities will also have to pay 20 per cent of the cost of creating new child-care spaces, which the province previously fully funded.
Tags: budget, child care, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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Monday, August 19th, 2019
Instead of recognizing that distributing fake news reports on social media in an attempt to fool the public is an affront to democracy, the Progressive Conservative government is apparently reconsidering ONN’s usefulness because it is, ahem, a failure… if ONN is shut down it shouldn’t be because the PC party’s communications specialists now deem it a liability. It should be because it’s an affront to the citizens the government was elected to represent and a misuse of their tax dollars.
Tags: budget, ideology
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Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
… plenty of now-pertinent rights never made it into the Charter: environmental rights, victims rights, housing rights and the rights of Indigenous peoples to self-determination and self-government. The Bill of Rights could act as a sort of testing pool, where these new rights are developed and brought to life… A rejuvenated Bill of Rights could act as a democratically protected companion to the Charter, nurturing anew Canada’s living tree constitutionalism.
Tags: jurisdiction, participation, rights
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