The People Must Say No to Failed COVID-19 Strategies
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by John Tierney (see Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failed Covid Response, August 18, 2022) on the failed response to COVID-19 in the United States and in most western democracies. The article was totally in...
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Don’t Nickel and Dime Our MPPs: Do we really want to pay 80-hour-a-week lesgislators less than a Fort Mcmurray truck driver?
Vic Fedeli is at his desk at the Ontario legislature by 7:30 every morning. Fedeli, 55, figures he works 80-90 hours a week, not including travel time. He’s paid $116,550 a year. That’s less than the chief librarian in Ajax, Ont., or a fire training officer in Brampton. And unlike his cohorts, there’s no fat pension waiting for the burnt-out politician when he retires.
Britain Raises Taxes on the 1%, the 1% Pay Less
With the Ontario NDP demanding a tax increase on upper income earners as a condition to prop up the McGuinty government, and the Alberta Liberals and NDP running on creating new tax brackets for the wealthy, it's worth taking a look at the news out of Britain. Despite...
Policy Settings Need Seismic Shift
A year ago a series of major earthquakes reduced the heart of Christchurch to rubble and tore at the foundations of New Zealand's precarious fiscal position. In common with much of the developed world, the tectonic plates of an entrenched sense of entitlement and...
Students Don’t Know how Good They have it: Western provinces are subsidizing cheap tuition in Quebec while their own students pay twice as much to attend university
What is it about Quebec university students that, from one cohort to the next, they don’t know how good they have it? Nearly 175,000 students are currently boycotting classes, for which they pay only about 10 per cent of the cost, in protest against the Charest government’s intention to increase undergraduate tuition fees for Quebec students by $325 a year over the next five years.
Newly introduced tax on reserve means more revenue for band
Ask the average Canadian what they think about taxes and don't be surprised by the scoff or groan you receive. For many, taxes are almost a necessary evil. The two certain thing in life, as the saying goes, are death and taxes. They represent what we all collectively...