Canadian News, Opinion

Increasing income tax on businesses and investment will not increase prosperity and personal income

Rupture of Calgary’s biggest water main revealed more than the problems of aging infrastructure. It showed a civic bureaucracy unable to provide basic services or fix things when they break, A mayor eager to blame others and scold citizens

While Vancouver can be beautiful, it has also been deemed the most unaffordable city in Canada by a Demographia International Housing Affordability report and the third-least affordable city of the 94 markets analyzed in the report

Trudeau is now keeping this false narrative alive, knowing that it was, and is, false. Why is he doing this? And why are the CBC and our mainstream media not even trying to find out? Something is very wrong here.

Recent Trends in Youth Employment

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Carbon tax costs Canadian economy $12 billion this year By Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director | June 26, 2024
The carbon tax costs Canadians big time for gas, home heating bills and everything else

“The criminal law power is not a magical incantation. Invoking the words ‘criminal law’ does not transform any issue into something Ottawa can regulate.”

Urban Population Densities in Canada and Abroad—an Update

In the end, there is nothing inclusive about groupthink. All voices must be heard

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‘The Knowing’ Has A Feel of Propaganda By , Michelle Stirling & Nina Green | June 23, 2024
Truth by truth, the myth of “The Knowing” falls apart.

A far-left provincial NDP government, working in tandem with a far-left Liberal government in Ottawa, not only has the combined legislative power to transform all of British Columbia’s public land into Indigenous ownership but...

The absence of mass graves, missing children, and especially the lack of evidence of the genocidal murder of thousands of Indigenous children, should be joyfully shouted from the rooftops

Canadians are struggling, so MPs shouldn’t rig the system so more politicians can collect lucrative, taxpayer-funded pensions

Long before he became Manitoba’s premier, Wab Kinew was a refreshing, common sense voice, and always refused to play the victim. He never failed to remind young indigenous people that Canada worked just fine for him

Canada has a hard time attracting investors. Now, our trading partners are leaving us in the dust.

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The Care Home Dilemma By - Rodney Clifton | June 19, 2024
Time to move beyond the indifference we have shown towards care home residents--integrate them more fully into the broader Canadian society. Surely, the last few years of their lives should be spent with dignity and comfort in a supportive community

Better performance on ESG rankings simply does not translate into better financial performance for Canadian firms

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Government subsidies cost more than EV capital investments: PBO By Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director & Jay Goldberg CTF Ont. Director | June 18, 2024
These lopsided numbers show that these corporate handouts are nothing more than a vanity project for politicians

The gap is widening exponentially for the marginalized

2024 Provincial Tax Freedom Days

Forget about the church, it's Byzantine style, and it's collection of Group of Seven paintings. Unless it's religion of the 3rd World variety, Justin Trudeau couldn't give a good god-damn.

And provide advance notice of controversial lessons

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Vote against capital gains tax hike: Taxpayers Federation By Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director | June 10, 2024
The Trudeau government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem, and doesn’t deserve a penny more from Canadians

There needs to be more of this by people in their roles across all parties, regardless of the issue at hand. Only then will we have public servants doing exactly that; serving the public and the public interest

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A public inquiry is the only way to clear the air, and get the country back on track.

Until First Nations abandon reserves, urban reserves certainly help First Nations develop economically. However, urban reserves should open a wider conversation about moving away from reserves

We need to reflect and admire the skill, diligence, and perseverance of everyone involved with bringing to fruition TMX as a world class, state of the art major piece of energy infrastructure

Trudeau needs to take some air out of his ballooning bloated bureaucracy

The lessons of history will always have their place

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Scrap the green corporate slush fund By Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director | June 5, 2024
“Time and time again we see this government blow tens of millions of tax dollars without proper guardrails”