Having trouble viewing? Try the web version [link removed] of this email. Latest Research June 19 was Tax Freedom Day—8 days later than in 2019, the last year before the pandemic [[link removed]]

This year, Tax Freedom Day is Monday, June 19. If you had to pay all your federal, provincial and municipal taxes up front, you would give government every dollar you earned from January 1st to Tax Freedom Day, when Canadians finally start working for themselves. In 2023, the average Canadian family (with two or more people) will pay 46.1 per cent of its annual income in taxes, including income taxes, payroll taxes, health taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, fuel taxes, carbon taxes and more.

Read More [[link removed]] Actual climate measurements—not speculative models—should drive climate policy debate [[link removed]]

Models or Measures of Climate Change: Why Does It Matter? is a new study that finds predictive climate models, in which speculative scenarios of future social and economic trends are used to estimate future greenhouse-gas emissions, over-estimate both atmospheric warming and greenhouse gas emissions.

Read More [[link removed]] Commentary and Blog Posts Key measure of economic wellbeing in Canada basically flatlined since 2015 [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Jock Finlayson

In 2022, real GDP per person remained below the 2019 level and was scarcely higher than five years earlier.

Technology is largely neutral, but users are not [[link removed]] by Jason Clemens and Steven Globerman

Canada’s expected poor economic growth compared to other industrialized countries could lead to longer workweeks for Canadian workers if we’re to keep pace with living standards in other countries.

Alberta’s showdown with Ottawa should focus on means, not ends [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Western Standard) by Kenneth P. Green

The federal government's emission-control plans would cripple the province's oil and gas industry.

Despite best-laid plans, socialism does not create abundance [[link removed]] by Matthew D. Mitchell

By the early 1980s, there were 57 Poles waiting for telephone service for every 100 subscribers.

Alberta offers more school choice than any other province [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Michael Zwaagstra

The province has the highest percentage of students enrolled in homeschooling in the country.

Tax bill for Canadian families higher now than before COVID [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Jake Fuss and Milagros Palacios

In 2023, the average Canadian family earning $140,106 will pay 46.1 per cent of their income in taxes.

Families in Atlantic Canada face lowest levels of school choice in the country [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald) by Michael Zwaagstra

Specialty schools in areas such as sports, arts and faith-based education are few and far between.

Ontario government’s ‘working people’ legislation will hurt working people [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Financial Post) by Matthew Lau

It’s all part of “an agenda that involves a genuine and lasting shift of power to working people,” said the minister.

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