Wealthy get off lightly from budget 2018 changes to the private corporation rules
This blog post is part of a series of posts that will be focusing on the tax avoidance by Canada’s most wealthy. This series was sparked by findings in the...
Budget 2018: Responsive to gender issues? Not without tax reform.
This blog post is part of a series of posts that will be focusing on the tax avoidance by Canada’s most wealthy. This series was sparked by findings in the Paradise...
Employment Insurance under the Trudeau Liberals
In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining ‘suitable work’;...
How Budget 2018 can help Canada's working poor
The Liberal government have promised to make progressive changes to the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) in next week's budget.
Making tax fairness a priority
This blog post is part of a series of posts that will be focusing on the tax avoidance by Canada’s most wealthy. This series was sparked by findings in the Paradise Papers...
Income tax system fails to correct growing inequality
This blog post is part of a series of posts that will be focusing on the tax avoidance by Canada’s most wealthy. This series was sparked by findings in the Paradise...
What will it take for Canada to treat First Nations children fairly?
FOURTH NON-COMPLIANCE ORDER RENDERED BY THE CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL IN FIRST NATIONS CHILD WELFARE CASE Two years after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) found Canada to be...
Laytonian social democracy: one small practical action at a time
The Broadbent Institute's new project, Change the Game, takes a critical look at the history of social democracy in Canada, with the intention of learning from the successes and challenges of...
Reconciliation and human rights for Indigenous peoples: the pathway ahead
In January 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal released a historic decision finding that the Government of Canada was racially discriminating against over 165,000 First Nations children. Leading up to...
2017: the year progressive politics came roaring back
This time last year, I will confess, I wasn’t feeling so hot. A maniac had just taken over the White House, reverberations from Brexit were echoing around the globe,...
