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Taxes Versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index, 2022 Edition is a new study that finds the average Canadian family spent 43 per cent of its income on taxes in 2021 compared to 35.7 per cent on basic necessities—more than housing, food and clothing costs combined. Since 1961, the average Canadian family’s total tax bill has increased nominally by 2,440 per cent, dwarfing increases in annual housing costs (1,751 per cent), clothing (643 per cent) and food (790 per cent).
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Thinking About Poverty: Counting The Poor is the first essay in a two-part series that examines the difficulty in measuring poverty in Canada, and in particular spotlights problems with using the Market Basket Measure approach. But because poverty is a serious personal problem for many Canadians, and that it’s also an important social and economic concern that influences government spending and policy, it is crucial to get the measurement of poverty right.
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(Appeared in the National Post) by Derek J. Allison
Canada should finally create an expanded program of national testing of students.
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Kenneth P. Green
As a result of Europe’s dependency on natural gas, prices have skyrocketed.
(Appeared in the Hub) by Vincent Geloso
When the gap in educational achievement between anglophones and francophones shrank, so to did the wage gap.
by Livio Di Matteo
Canada's real GDP declined by 11 per cent in the second quarter of 2020.
by Julio Mejia and Elmira Aliakbari
The pipeline carries 540,000 barrels of oil and natural gas liquids per day to Ontario’s four operating refineries in Sarnia.
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