Posts Tagged ‘tax’
Claims of a doctor shortage oversimplifies the issues with health care
Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Sustaining universal access to care will require governments to face the demographic reality driving medical demand; update revenues so financially secure boomers contribute in line with their costs; overhaul staffing incentives; and reinvest in the social and ecological foundations of health.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, tax
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Money is changing hands, not the system
Friday, November 14th, 2025
Pay equity isn’t just about fairness—it’s about unleashing economic potential and creating a more just society… It’s time to decouple maternity and parental benefits from Employment Insurance. Childcare and postnatal care are work, not unemployment… Ten per cent of the labour force is self-employed… Tax reform is a powerful tool to fund public services while decreasing the wealth gap. An increase in the capital gains inclusion rate, paired with an annual and indexed lifetime exemption threshold, will allow for greater tax fairness.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, tax, women, youth
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How Mark Carney’s federal budget would impact your taxes, from automatic tax filing to axing luxury tax
Monday, November 10th, 2025
The 2025 federal budget proposes lowering the first marginal personal income tax rate to 14.5 per cent in 2025 and automatically filing taxes for 1 million low-income Canadians by 2027. First-time homebuyers could receive a GST rebate up to $50,000 on some new homes, while the Underused Housing Tax would be eliminated. The budget also proposes eliminating luxury taxes on some boats and aircraft
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Mark Carney’s tax plan will lift more Canadians ‘above the poverty line,’ advocates say
Sunday, October 12th, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that starting in 2027, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) would begin auto-filing tax returns for low-income Canadians, allowing them to simply confirm the information in a pre-filed tax return… The Canada Child Benefit, the GST credit and the Canada Disability Benefit are among several benefits that Canadians can only receive if they file a tax return.
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The three fiscal taboos Canada can no longer afford
Saturday, September 6th, 2025
Federal health and social transfers have also long outlived their usefulness: where once conditional transfers might have been needed as a catalyst for national standards, today they are among the main obstacles to health care reform; Restoring the two points to the GST… would leave it no higher than it was 20 years ago, and far lower than in most countries with similar taxes; … those at the top paying more in tax, overall… on their stock options… capital gains… dividend tax credits
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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.
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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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What do we get for our low taxes and supposed affordability measures? A less healthy, fractured country
Thursday, July 17th, 2025
If Canada were in the European Union… we would be in the bottom fifth for taxes… Recent polling shows Canadians are overwhelmingly supportive of a wealth tax… Now, a new group of Canadians called ”Patriotic Millionaires” are calling for higher taxes on the wealthy… While it may be true that the only certain things in life are death and taxes, it is also true taxes help us live better — and healthier — lives.
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Why the Capital Gains Tax Increase Should Not See the Light of Day
Thursday, June 5th, 2025
The planned measure to increase the capital gains inclusion rate… would create a triple threat: harming Canadian businesses, discouraging investment, and penalizing middle-income Canadians… – Canada’s capital stock would decline by $127 billion, GDP would fall by nearly $90 billion, and real per-capita GDP would drop by 3 percent. Further, employment would decline by 414,000 jobs, which would raise unemployment from 1.5 million to 1.9 million workers.
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Mark Carney unveils Liberal party’s election platform, promises $129 billion in new spending
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
The platform defines capital spending as “anything that builds an asset” owned by the federal government, another level of government, or a private company… not “spending” but “investing” that will prompt private sector investment to grow the economy… Carney also repeated his promise that his government would not cut health and social transfers to provinces, and would preserve programs like national child care, dental care, pharmacare and an emerging school food program.
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