Sun- Government job-growth rate in Canada outstripping private sector
Specifically, according to our new study, from 2019 to 2023 employment in the government sector (which includes federal, provincial and local governments nationwide) increased by 13.3% compared to just 3.6% in the private sector (including self-employment).
So Canadians just don’t have the right vibes now? Is a recession defined by a “vibe deficit” or something like that? This is just more “animal spirits” nonsense.
Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday that she hopes her government’s proposed GST holiday will help bridge the gap between Canada’s macroeconomic picture and historically stressed-out households by bringing good vibes to the latter.
“People have been talking about a ‘vibecession’… and the fact that Canadians just aren’t feeling that good,” Freeland told reporters at a press conference in Ottawa to promote the temporary sales-tax reprieve.
Who would “tax” your tax rebates?
CFIB- government plans to tax the long-delayed $2.5 billion carbon tax rebate for small business
May the trolling be ever in your favour.
CBC- RCMP plans to go undercover online to trap violent extremists
Internal document says Mounties will use fake online profiles to pursue extremist activity
Blacklock’s- ArriveCan Records Destroyed
Doan in June 5 committee testimony said he mistakenly destroyed electronic records kept on his government-issue laptop. “I needed to change my laptop because the battery in my current one is failing,” testified Doan. “When transferring files from my old computer to my new one, files were corrupted and emails were lost. I personally reported this.”
Back of the bus Whitey.
National Post- Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment, new report argues
“Canadians have been sold a bill of goods,” Bruce Pardy, the author of the report and a Queen’s University law professor, told National Post by email. “Many of them think that they have a right to equal treatment under the law. They think that discrimination is illegal. But nothing could be further from the truth. In Canada, discrimination is lawful as long as it is committed against the right groups — and in particular against straight white men.
Your doctor may be dumb as a post but at least he’s(she’s) not white(or Asian).
National Post- At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others
Toronto Metropolitan University, will reserve 75 per cent of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other “equity-deserving” groups including 2SLGBTQ+. These students will need an undergraduate GPA of only 3.3 on a 4-point scale, and maybe not even that; for comparison, the University of Toronto medical school’s average accepted GPA is 3.95. Able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats. It’s TMU’s affirmative action school for doctors who can’t get in on their merits. Canada now has full-blown racial and gender discrimination. How did we get here? The Supreme Court of Canada is largely to blame.
Why are the Tories split on this issue? Do some of them actually think that the supply mismanaged dairy and poultry sectors should be allowed to hold the rest of the economy hostage?
This week, farming groups and former trade negotiators took turns trying to convince the upper chamber to either support or reject the Bloc’s private member’s bill to protect supply management from future trade negotiations.
The government voted in favour of the legislation last year, as did most Liberal MPs, the Bloc, the NDP and the Greens. The Conservatives were split on the vote.
Until morale improves.
Blacklock’s- Feds Want 3% Irish Land Tax
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday said cabinet would like to adopt an Irish-style three percent annual federal tax on vacant lots.
“Such taxes would be intended to discourage speculative holding of land and making it more costly to keep land undeveloped,” the finance department wrote in a Consultation Paper. “Taxes could provide a source of revenue for various orders of government which could be used to fund the construction of more new homes,” it added.
Who would keep firetrucks away from fires?
Globe and Mail- A look at Halifax’s climate property tax, ahead of a civic election that could determine its future
This is unique among larger Canadian cities – many of which have put little money toward climate change even as they declare it an emergency – and raises about $18-million in dedicated funds each year. But its prominence on the bill is a recurring worry to the city bureaucrat who helps dole out the money.
“Usually when things are called out on the tax bill, they’re at risk,” said Shannon Miedama, Halifax’s director of environment and climate change. “Every year I freak out that it’s going to get debated and pulled, and it hasn’t happened yet.”
When a society accepts the premise that those with wealth deserve to have it strip mined, nothing is off limits.
Governments’ extraction of value from our homes has accelerated in recent years as they have became more desperate, both to raise revenue and to find scapegoats to deflect blame for their own starring role Canada’s housing shortage. As the byzantine extractions multiplied, our homes, once considered our main assets, have morphed for many into our main liabilities. Once upon a time, “safe as houses” was a no-brainer investment strategy. Anyone who now sees a house as a safe investment needs his head examined.
It’s too bad that the Conservatives continue to remain largely silent on the critical issue of repealing Justin’s capital gains tax hikes. The impact is far from trivial.
Based on conventional assumptions that an increase in the tax-inclusive cost of capital by 10 percent causes the capital stock to fall by 7 percent, I estimate that Canada’s capital stock would fall by $127 billion. Employment would permanently decline by 414,000. To put this in terms of its impact on unemployment, the capital gains tax hike would increase unemployment from 1.5 to 1.9 million Canadian workers as of August 2024. GDP will fall by almost $90 billion and real per capita GDP by 3 percent.
Geoffrey Moyse- British Columbia could disappear under a sea of Aboriginal title
Below is the sixth of several outstanding opinion pieces about indigenous land claim issues in British Columbia that will be posted without a paywall over the next few weeks.
All are written by Geoffrey S. Moyse, K.C., a retired senior lawyer who served as legal counsel to the Province of B.C., advising six successive governments on aboriginal law matters over more than 30 years.
His writings rebut the current NDP provincial government’s indigenous land ownership and use policies.
Sun- Students attending protest told to ‘wear blue’ to mark them as ‘colonizers’
Mona, the cousin of one of students compelled to take part, told the Toronto Sun the Grade 8 student was instructed to wear a blue shirt to identify her as a “colonizer.”
“She was very upset,” Mona said of her cousin, who is Jewish and approached her teacher at the rally to express her discomfort once the anti-Israel chants began.
“The teacher told her, ‘You’ll get over it.’”
By the time farms are forced to go net zero, their net income statements will have beat them to that number anyway.
The University of Manitoba is getting $7.6 million in federal funds to study net-zero farming systems.
U of M researcher Martin Entz, best known for his work on organics, is the project lead.
“This is a huge amount of money. It’s certainly the largest grant that I’ve ever been involved in,” he said.
The team is also engaging with industry partners including Keystone Agricultural Producers, the National Farmers Union and Ducks Unlimited Canada to learn about sustainable agriculture initiatives…
It’s a way of life. You’re going to love it.
National Post- B.C. lawyers shouldn’t face residential school ‘denialism’ accusations for telling the truth
No ‘buried children’ have been found at the Kamloops residential school, and it’s not racist for B.C.’s mandatory training course to say so
Moneytalks- The problem isn’t what the Conservatives will or will not do. It is the tens of thousands of dentist who have refused to sign up for the plan. Here is the head of the BC Dental Association, in a MoneyTalks featured interview, explaining why.