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Laugh at the farcical scandals of John Tory and Doug Ford but the joke’s on the powerless
Wednesday, February 15th, 2023
… for-profit nursing homes had four times as many COVID-19 deaths as city-run homes… Ontario announced funding for new nursing home beds in 2022… adding 200 new police won’t decrease wait times for police to respond to calls. It doesn’t support the idea that more police equals less crime, either. But data shows reducing poverty can reduce crime… The proposed 2023 budget cuts $4.3 million from jobs and social services.
Tags: budget, Health, homelessness, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, tax
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COVID ‘blank cheque’: Report finds large corporations spent billions on dividends and share buybacks while receiving government wage subsidies
Friday, February 10th, 2023
Canadians For Tax Fairness found 37 corporations that had received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy and spent a total of $81.3 billion on dividends, $41.1 billion on share buybacks and $51.1 billion on taking over other companies… up to $9.9 billion may have gone to companies which weren’t eligible to receive it… some kind of clawback mechanism is needed, either for this time around, or when designing future programs.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, privatization, tax
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Private foundations sit on billions of dollars while charities struggle
Thursday, February 9th, 2023
We don’t need more tax breaks for charitable giving — Canada already has among the world’s most generous charitable tax breaks, and we are overflowing with charitable funds. It’s just that we can’t get at them. What’s needed is a major overhaul of Canada’s two-tier charity sector where private foundations controlled by wealthy families sit on mountains of idle cash while thousands of working charities are starved for funds as they struggle to deliver services to Canadians.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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How Ottawa can help fix health care: first, send less money
Friday, January 27th, 2023
When one level of government is raising the money, while another spends it, it makes it hard for the public to know who to hold to account for any of the system’s ills. That, too, dulls any lingering incentive for reform… without Ottawa to share the blame for underperformance, provincial governments would have a stronger incentive to organize the delivery of health care so as to achieve greater quality and public satisfaction per dollar spent.”
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, tax
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‘The rich and everybody else’: Financial inequality in Canada keeps growing
Thursday, January 26th, 2023
Fifty per cent of households are earning less than $16,000 to $17,000. That’s even after taxes and transfers and benefits. That gap between the 50 per cent of the population, roughly 8 million people or more, and that top 1 per cent of earners, a very small slice of the working population, is huge. And it’s growing bigger… Capitalism and democracy have always been in contestation. People want votes. People want rights. And they see that, usually, they can’t get them, because there’s a whole bunch of rich people who aren’t willing to do it.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Where are your inflation dollars going? Inflation broken down by profit, wages and industry
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
The data is clear—the largest driver of inflation is corporate profits… Of every dollar spent on higher prices in the last two years, 47 cents was converted into corporate profits in four industries, led by mining, oil and gas extraction, explains a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Tags: economy, standard of living, tax
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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…
Tags: featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Financing Employment Insurance Reform: Finding the Right Balance
Friday, December 16th, 2022
… the federal government is facing pressures to avoid increasing EI premiums as many businesses are still recovering from the pandemic and are likely to face another economic downturn. And while some have called for the federal government to contribute financially to the program to limit premium increases, others have expressed concern about burdening taxpayers and adding to the federal debt.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Canadians can now apply for new dental benefit: here’s how
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
For now, the “Canada Dental Benefit” will be offered to children under the age of 12, with an annual family income of less than $90,000, with the amount provided per child per year dependant on family income… While only those under 12 years old will get access for now, the government says it remains committed to following through on seeing this stop-gap measure become a fully-fledged national dental care plan by 2025.
Tags: featured, Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Four ways the fall economic statement could help prepare all of us for the coming recession
Thursday, November 3rd, 2022
People are anxious. The world is talking about recession… What can the government do about any of it? Help those struggling to choose between heating or eating, or even between food or shelter, by asking a bit more from those who saw a windfall in corporate profits and shareholder dividends. Here are four ways to do just that…
Tags: budget, economy, housing, ideology, tax
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