While I have written extensively in the past about tax evasion and avoidance in light of the revelations of both the Panama and Paradise Papers, I felt it was time to do an update. To summarize what I wrote previously, there has been a striking reluctance on the part
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Montreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Great Con Tax Smear
I made this little graphic yesterday to try to illustrate two points that I think need to be made, if we are still going to continue to call ourselves Canada.Not some ratty repressive Banana Republic where Big Brother might feel at home.And those points are:One, Andrew Scheer is a grubby Con
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The Paradise Papers have hit the fan. Bernie Sanders understands what they are really telling us: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a statement to The Guardian, said that the papers demonstrate that the world has turned into an “international oligarchy” controlled by a minute number of billionaires. “The major issue
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Paradise Papers and the Hypocrisy of the Cons
Oh no. What have we done to deserve this? Not another tax scandal, not more Pierre Poilievre. As you know when we last left the man they call Pee Wee or Dickhead, he was in a shrunken state, after his phony tax scandal went nowhere.But now he's back, and more annoying than
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