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Will a higher capital gains tax inclusion rate double corporate investments?
Corporate Canada’s well-oiled public relations machine is in full swing against a minor change to Canada’s tax system, which would increase the capital gains inclusion rate—not the tax rate, the…
Workers’ income is 100% taxable. Capital gains should be too
This week, the federal government is putting forward a motion to pass its change—announced in the 2024 federal budget—in how capital gains are taxed. The feds are looking to change the inclusion…
Log it and burn it
Download 7.27 MB 40 pages BC’s forests are in crisis. The sharp increase in wood pellet exports to Japan is fueling the loss of BC primary forests. The indicators of…
Expanding democratic employee ownership in Canada: policy options
Download 1.07 MB 36 pages We generally take for granted that everyone has the right to a say—and certainly a vote—in what our governments do. But in the workplaces that…
Expanding democratic employee ownership in Canada
VANCOUVER — The federal government is considering ways for employees to have more ownership and control in their workplace by tabling legislation to create a new Employee Ownership Trust legal structure. …
Canadian CEO pay breaks all records, reflecting a new Gilded Age for Canada’s rich: report
Read the full report online here. OTTAWA—Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs again broke every compensation record on the books in 2022, according to a new report by the Canadian Centre for…
Highest-paid 100 CEOs, by province: Ontario’s a jawdropper
If you think the average compensation of Canada’s highest-paid 100 CEOs is outrageous, take a look at what CEOs headquartered in Ontario get paid. On average, the highest-paid 100 CEOs…
The Monitor, July/August 2023
Neoliberalism is like a zombie that won’t die Download 5.58 MB Browse the latest edition of The Monitor online here Before it was an entrenched globalized system, it was an…
Canada’s options for intervening in the Keystone XL CUSMA lawsuit
A briefing paper from the Trade and Investment Research Project Download 3.8 MB 19 pages Read the full report online here. TC Energy’s $15 billion (USD) Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) lawsuit…
Fast Facts: Whose Freedom?
The Convoy that took over Ottawa for a month last year just met outside Winnipeg this past weekend. While the right to protest is an essential part of our democracy,…
NAFTA’s Shadow of Obstruction
Investor rights in the expired North American Free Trade Agreement continue to undermine democratic decision-making and climate policy in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Click here to read the…
Corporate profits capturing more of economic recovery compared to any recession in last half century
Corporate profits are capturing more economic growth than in any previous post-recession recovery period over the past 50 years; workers are capturing among the least Read Truth Bomb: Corporate sector…
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