Capital gains taxes—a buck is still a buck
A rather modest tax reform has much of the business community and its attendant economists... The post Capital gains taxes—a buck is still a buck first appeared on Views from…
Canadians For Tax Fairness
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Philip Ritchie writes about new research into natural receptors which may help limit infection by COVID-19 and other viruses, while Alice Klein reports…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ryan Tumilty reports on research showing how many Canadian lives may have been saved by COVID protection measures – making for a…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Bruce Campbell discusses the connection between the climate crisis and wealth inequality – along with the miserable failure of Lib and Con…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Aaron D’Andrea reports on Dr. Theresa Tam’s recognition that most of Canada is now firmly trapped in a fourth wave of COVID. Alexander…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dirk Richter and Lucy Foulkes point out how any mental health concerns arising out of public health rules would pale in comparison to…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Both Apoorva Mandavilli and Sara Mojtehedzadeh highlight how a failure to ensure air quality in workplaces to limit aerosol transmission has been one…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Eric Andrew-Gee reports on the likelihood that Canada’s current COVID casualty numbers are a significant underestimate. Sabrina Jones highlights how health professionals are…
Even the World Bank supports a wealth tax
While recognizing the danger of increasing inequality in Western societies, I have not been a fan of a wealth tax, one of the more commonly offered solutions. I have been…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the even greater urgency to get to COVID zero as more dangerous strains of the virus spread in Canada.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Macdonald examines (PDF) the continued pay gap which sees CEOs rake in more money the morning of the first day of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Macdonald notes that the federal government’s investments in the wake of COVID-19 have been necessary to keep intolerable burdens off of people…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot writes that the UK Cons are using their own botched Brexit as an excuse to set up a disaster capitalist’s paradise.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sheila Block highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has only amplified the profits accruing to the wealthy few while putting added pressure on…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson calls out the Cons for their platform of taking from the many to further enrich the most privileged few. David…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ernest Canning writes about the importance of treating corporatism as a specific and extreme position, rather than allowing it to define the political…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Steven Greenhouse discusses how the U.S.’ economy is rigged against workers. And Eric Levitz writes that Donald Trump’s giveaway to the rich worked…
A Platform for Tax Fairness
“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.” This quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. is the motto of Canadians for Tax Fairness, an organization that “advocates for…
Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – John Paul Tasker reports on the final report of the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. And Kenyon Wallace highlights…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ahmed Sati offers some important – if belated – recognition of the need to fight against exclusionary bigotry. Jessica Davis focuses on…