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Canada’s Charity Law Needs Reform: Report
The report calls for Canada to establish clearer rules about what constitutes political activity and provide a more generous limit on allowable political activities. Charities impacted by federal audits applauded the reports’ recommendations. Environmental Defence executive director Tim Gray said the findings put Canada’s laws in context with other western countries.
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, rights, standard of living, tax
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Should poor seniors have to pay to volunteer
… federal and provincial governments penalize seniors… who get pocket money to cover their expenses for volunteer jobs… [as it is] subtracted from their old-age government assistance cheques… Under social assistance rules, a person under 65 can make up to $6,000 a year from “gifts” without seeing their government cheques decline… There is no such limit when they become seniors at 65, though… It’s not clear if these cascading clawbacks stem from punitive planning or sloppy neglect.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Alternative Federal Budget 2015 – “Delivering the Good”
… the federal government’s continued obsession with austerity and balancing the budget comes at the cost… The AFB… delivers a plan that would lift 893,000 Canadians out of poverty, reduce income inequality, boost economic growth, reduce carbon emissions, and create or sustain 300,000 jobs a year, bringing Canada’s employment rate back to its pre-recession level.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Our middle-class obsession is leaving too many Canadians behind
The breadth of Canada’s middle class obviously means that… policies aimed at transferring wealth from other income groups to appease middle-class voters will be costly. Given that the main cause for concern is the worsening situation of lower-skilled workers, politicians who truly want to help those struggling in the “middle class,” should focus their efforts on helping disadvantaged groups of Canadians acquire more education and more skills.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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More proof that income-splitting will benefit few
Income-splitting was, after all, part of a larger package of $5 billion in tax giveaways, which also included a bigger Universal Child Care Benefit and expanded Child Care Expense Deduction. Those benefits also disproportionately benefit a small number of better-off households and are too meager to cover the cost of child care… that $5 billion could better be spent on universal child care, which studies have shown would pay for itself — and more — in taxes paid by women going back into the workforce…
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Inequality and Canadian politics
Economic inequalities have grown over the last 10 years… Declining marginal tax rates have certainly had some role… but this is not the principal place where government has allowed inequality to increase. Instead, post-transfer inequality has increased principally because government is transferring less to poor citizens. The problem is then not too little government spending or even too little taxing, but the wrong spending.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Quebec model balances greater equality with economic progress
Quebec is more equal than other provinces, in large part because of its distinctive social and labour market policies… Quebec’s distinctive family policies have had positive effects on the economy, increasing the labour force participation rate of women and thus lowering poverty. And educational attainment boosted by provincial policies is rapidly converging with the rest of Canada… Equity and efficiency need not be opposed, but can go hand in hand.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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Why Canadian governments resist sensible pharmacare
… the experts say: pharmacare is a good idea, both socially and economically. In rhetoric, the politicians aren’t far behind. Nonetheless, this very good idea that almost everyone lauds is never put into action… the reason for this insufferable inaction is that a national drug program would shift costs from the private to the public sector — from what we pay out of one pocket (prescription costs and insurance premiums) to what we pay out of the other (taxes).
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living, tax
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