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Pages tagged "economy"


Towards a Just Recovery

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · December 01, 2020 2:00 PM

The Fall Economic Statement released yesterday is necessarily shaped by a high degree of uncertainty. Despite promising reports that we may have an effective vaccine against Covid-19 within months, the pandemic is very much with us and economic recovery is far from certain as quarantines and lockdowns continue.

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Five tests to make sure bailouts benefit people, not corporations

Posted on News & Blogs by Katrina Miller · May 05, 2020 4:16 PM

Canada’s corporate bailouts need to cut out tax dodgers and profiteers, and show long-term commitments are attached to the money.

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Economy and climate need more than stimulus after COVID-19

Posted on News & Blogs by Brendan Haley · April 30, 2020 11:48 AM

Media reports say climate change mitigation will play a prominent role in the COVID-19 economic recovery, with the federal government planning to invest in the environment as part of its stimulus spending. Stimulus is a concept associated with John Maynard Keynes, calling for public spending to kick-start the economy. Stimulus was used after the 2008 global financial crisis, but was quickly removed, and the global economy never fully recovered.

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COVID-19 Emergency Benefits: Who's included, who's left out and the role of provinces

Posted on News & Blogs by Angella MacEwen · April 07, 2020 9:35 AM

Applications for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) were opened on Monday, April 6th, and officials have estimated that up to 4 million people may apply for the emergency support. Since March 15th, more than 2 million workers had already applied for Employment Insurance (EI) benefits. Thanks to the hard work of countless federal public servants working in Service Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency, some EI applicants are already receiving CERB-like benefits and GST credits are now expected to arrive by mid-April. Yet the question still remains whether these programs provide sufficient support for all of those in need.

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Remembering Mel Watkins

Posted on In the News by Jonathan Sas · April 02, 2020 3:39 PM

 

 


On April 2nd, political economist and giant of the Canadian left, Mel Watkins, passed away.

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Dealing with the Economic Impacts of COVID-19

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · March 11, 2020 9:37 AM

At this time, it is impossible to know the course and consequences of COVID-19 cases arising from the novel coronavirus. A probable outcome seems to be a spread of the illness among the general population, before it stabilizes and/ or an effective vaccine is developed which could take several months or even longer

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Fair Taxes and Global Capitalism

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · December 17, 2019 2:16 PM

In recent years, progressives and social democrats have begun to embrace a much bolder tax fairness agenda than was the case even five years ago. This is especially true in the United States where Democratic Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both made the case for a significant tax on large holdings of wealth, the closure of personal tax loopholes for investment income such as stock options, and serious corporate tax reform. In the 2019 federal election, the NDP similarly called for a wealth tax, higher taxation of capital gains in the personal income tax system, and a higher corporate tax rate.

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Voters look left to solve affordability concerns

Posted on News & Blogs by Katrina Miller · October 25, 2019 9:00 AM

There is no doubt that cost of living concerns loomed large during Canada’s federal election. Historically, economic angst has been fertile ground for a standard Conservative pitch to the electorate – one that promises to end government waste and interference, lower taxes, and put money back in our pockets so that we can seek out our own path to success. That seems to have been Andrew Scheer’s play, summed up nicely in his campaign slogan “It’s time for you to get ahead”. 

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The Conservative Platform – Tax Cuts for the Affluent, Austerity for the Many

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · October 17, 2019 2:13 PM

The Conservative platform put forward by Andrew Scheer delivers tax cuts for the relatively affluent, to be paid for by largely unspecified cuts to spending on social programs and public services. That is a poor deal for ordinary working families who get much more each year in program benefits like public health care and post-secondary education and child benefits and public pensions than they pay for in personal income taxes.

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Data Analysis: Millennials and Growing Inequality

Posted on News & Blogs by Sheila Matthen · June 26, 2019 9:56 AM

In May, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden caused a small media storm when comments he made that he had no empathy for millennials who argue they face more difficult economic circumstances than previous generations circulated on social media. Biden was only the most recent public figure to weigh in on what’s become a hot topic over the past few years.

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