Having trouble viewing? Try the web version [link removed] of this email. Latest Research Reforming Canada’s business taxes could improve investment crisis and raise living standards [[link removed]]
Boosting Canada’s Competitiveness by Reforming Business Taxation suggests that only taxing profit disbursements for businesses, which include dividend payments, share buybacks, and bonuses, rather than taxing all business profits, would lead to greater business investment, increasing worker productivity, growth in the economy, and ultimately raise living standards for Canadians.
Read More [[link removed]] Alberta high schools can improve student performance despite challenges [[link removed]]
Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools 2024 ranks 292 public, Catholic, independent and charter secondary schools based on eight academic indicators generated from Grade 12 provincewide testing, grade-to-grade transition and graduation rates.
Read More [[link removed]] Commentary and Blog Posts Canada should not want to lead the world on climate change policy [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Financial Post) by Ross McKitrick
The migration of energy-intensive industry to China and India more than offsets our tiny emission reductions here at home.
More government interventions hamper capitalism [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Financial Post) by Philip Cross
Government programs falter because of bad management, political meddling, and a workforce that serves its own interests.
Spending more money won’t solve Ontario’s teacher shortage [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Epoch Times) by Michael Zwaagstra
Ontario teachers with 10 years experience or more already receive higher salaries than their counterparts in other provinces.
Canadians think Canada is ‘broken’ amid gloomy economic numbers [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Jock Finlayson
Canada has fallen further behind the best-performing economies on productivity, per-person income and real wages.
Prime minister wrong about Canada’s debt [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Hill Times) by Jake Fuss
Federal debt interest costs will reach a projected $54 billion this year.
Canadians want major health-care reform now [[link removed]] (Appeared in True North) by Mackenzie Moir
In Australia, governments regularly contract with private hospitals to provide surgical care.
Numbers don’t lie—crime up significantly in Toronto and across Canada [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Matthew Lau
In the first half of 2024, homicides in the city were up 36 per cent.
Cost of Ottawa’s gun ban fiasco may reach $6 billion [[link removed]] by Gary Mauser
The federal government has not revealed how it will collect the newly-banned firearms.
Ontario government falls woefully short of balanced budget promises [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Toronto Star) by Ben Eisen
The government’s net debt burden this year will reach a projected $408 billion.
Median wages and salaries lower in every Canadian province than in every U.S. state [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Epoch Times) by Alex Whalen, Lawrence Schembri, and Joel Emes
This growing divergence in employment earnings has significant ramifications for the Canadian economy.
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