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Pages tagged "economy"


The power of geographic solidarity in winning fair economies

Posted on News & Blogs · June 10, 2019 10:13 AM

Solidarity has long been a standing principle of social justice advocates, but in the face of the current crisis of inequality and the concentration of power and money, solidarity is an essential ingredient of change. This was the message at a day-long workshop the Power Lab recently convened with a multitude of organizers, from public transit activists based in Scarborough to community benefits advocates based in Jane-Finch, on how to strengthen our collective fight for fair economies.

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5 ways Doug Ford’s government costs us more

Posted on News & Blogs by Katrina Miller · April 12, 2019 2:19 PM


 

If there’s one thing top of mind for most folks, it’s the cost of living. Recent polling commissioned by the Broadbent Institute showed that whether it’s housing, healthcare, or simply paying for daily basics like food, Ontarians and the rest of Canada are worried that their largely stagnated incomes just can’t keep up. And they expect their government to start doing much more to make life affordable.

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Analysis: Canadian Income Survey 2017

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · February 27, 2019 3:41 PM

Statistics Canada has just released the Canadian Income Survey for 2017.

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How to address the malaise of the middle-class

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · February 20, 2019 8:00 AM

This blogpost appeared in the Globe and Mail on February 18th. 

By now, everybody is surely aware that the core commitments of the Liberal federal government are to “build a strong middle-class” and “help those working hard to join it.” But economic progress and social progress over the past three years seems to have been very limited, and it is far from clear that the government is pursuing the best overall strategy to promote higher living standards and greater income equality.

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Are Canadians overtaxed? The equation is complicated

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · January 09, 2019 11:09 AM

 

 


This blogpost originally appeared in the Globe and Mail. 

Partly fuelled by reports from conservative think-tanks such as the Fraser Institute, many Canadians believe that they are taxed far too heavily and that the tax “burden” has been rising over time. Recently published Statistics Canada data show, in fact, that most individual Canadians pay very low effective rates of personal income tax, and that the tax “burden” has been falling.

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What we can learn from the Oshawa General Motors announcement

Posted on News & Blogs · November 30, 2018 2:38 PM

The announced General Motors closures have shown us that we need to explore a new industrial strategy, where public investments gives equity in companies, and where public control can help us preserve manufacturing, and direct it toward just social and environmental outcomes. Above all, we have to realize that it is the people, and not the corporations, who should make the economic decisions which affect them in their daily lives.   

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Review: Ontario's Economic Outlook and Fall Fiscal Update 2018

Posted on News & Blogs by Brittany Andrew · November 20, 2018 4:58 PM

The Ontario government’s annual Economic Outlook and Fall Fiscal Update arrives on the heels of a controversial first quarter for Premier Doug Ford’s new Progressive Conservative government. Campaigning solely on a message of reversing the legacy of the Ontario Liberals’ time in government — primarily by reducing government spending and making life more “affordable” for Ontarians, Ford’s first five months has largely resulted in service, democratic and economic disruption, instead of actual cost-savings that would benefit average Ontarians.

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Canada’s economic competitiveness lies in an equitable and low carbon future

Posted on News & Blogs by Katrina Miller · November 20, 2018 11:15 AM

There has been plenty of fear mongering that Canada must follow U.S. President Trump’s corporate tax cut agenda or face economic devastation. Yet many of the experts, often those not working for corporate interests, agree on two things: there is no assurance and much skepticism that the broad cuts will lead to significantly greater economic competitiveness for the U.S in the long-term1,2; and, there are much more effective levers to generate a competitive advantage for the Canadian economy than tax cuts3.

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Broadbent Reads: Crashed by Adam Tooze

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · November 09, 2018 10:28 AM

Book Review

Adam Tooze. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. Viking. New York. 2018

The global economic crisis is now more than a decade old, and is far from definitively behind us. Indeed, many fear, with good reason, that the recent, uneven and lethargic global recovery may soon come to an end, and that the next crisis of global capitalism could be even worse than that of 2008.

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National security, protectionism and the new trade deal with the United States and Mexico

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · November 05, 2018 11:32 AM

The Trudeau government has said that the new USMC agreement continues to give us an effective means of resolving bilateral disputes with the United States, allowing us to appeal to a special tribunal if  that country (or Mexico) has, in our view, violated the agreement.

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