Some context on PM Carney’s automatic tax filing announcement- what’s new, what’s not and what it could mean open.substack.com/pub/noahzon/...

Thoughts on the move to fall federal budgets and what it might mean in practice
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New post: Six questions about the new $9B federal economic rescue package noahzon.substack.com/p/six-questi...

For all the big talk and big numbers, the economic rescue packages have been focused mostly on short-term cash flow for a narrow set of businesses. I wrote a bit about the $1B Protect Ontario Financing Program and why it doesn't meet the moment medium.com/@NoahZon/the...

A few questions about the TFSA 'top-up':
1. What investments would be considered 'Canadian'? What about an ETF that contains a mix of Canadian and global?
2. Would there be a requirement that the TFSA holds Canadian investments for a certain amount of time? Could you buy and then sell immediately?

$100K salary today is equivalent to less than $55K in 1996 when this law was introduced - what are we even doing here
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We heard that there might be some things happening in Ottawa in 2025 that might cause people to shift jobs?
PolicyJobsOTT newsletter will launch in the next few weeks policyjobsott.substack.com - if you're familiar with PolicyJobsTO, it will be like that, but Ottawa.

The world has changed and Canada needs to be ready. Every Canadian has an important role to play. My thoughts on following Sweden’s lead and re-establishing universal civil defence training

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I wrote about how we seem to be making some of the same mistakes as 2020 on economic uncertainty and that Canadian governments need to start talking plans b, c and d right now

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Budget 2024 gave provinces until Jan 1, 2025 to sign agreements for the $5B Canada-Housing Infrastructure Fund or lose access to the $. Which have signed? I see no details from HICC and no news releases. housing-infrastructure.canada.ca/housing-loge...

An overview from our team @springboardpolicy.bsky.social of what might happen next week with Trump’s executive authority on tariffs
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A case that it’s still worth paying attention to the FES even in the midst of the chaos in Ottawa
springboardpolicy.medium.com/yes-its-stil...

Worth using a first crack here to share this tribute/remembrance of Ken Battle. A good guy who did good work for good reasons.

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