Really fine thing going on in my old hometown
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Really fine thing going on in my old hometown
In which Canadians for Tax Fairness *does not* call for the reversal of the Liberals' latest income tax cut, which is estimated to drop federal revenue by $5.4 billion/year while giving the lion's share of its tax savings to high & high-middle income earners and tiny savings to people in poverty.
A tale of two visions for Canada’s future — As Mark Carney’s budget doubles down on austerity, #ZohranMamdani’s victory in New York City shows what people-powered politics can look like, and how Canadians deserve better.
New column by Jared Walker:
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#cdnpoli
New column by Jared Walker:
ricochet.media/politics/a-t...
#cdnpoli
A tale of two visions for Canada's future
As Mark Carney’s budget doubles down on austerity, Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City shows what bold, people-powered politics can look like, and how Canadians deserve better
ricochet.media
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In which Canadians for Tax Fairness *does not* call for the reversal of the Liberals' latest income tax cut, which is estimated to drop federal revenue by $5.4 billion/year while giving the lion's share of its tax savings to high & high-middle income earners and tiny savings to people in poverty.
Just left passport office in Toronto. Huge line but moved fast. Everyone in good spirits. After just 20 min. in line, 10 min. in a waiting area, and a 3 min. document check with a friendly officer, a new 10-year passport will be delivered to me in 3 weeks. Great staff & service.
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Just left passport office in Toronto. Huge line but moved fast. Everyone in good spirits. After just 20 min. in line, 10 min. in a waiting area, and a 3 min. document check with a friendly officer, a new 10-year passport will be delivered to me in 3 weeks. Great staff & service.
Like so many of the growing number of journalistic articles about income and wealth inequality, this article provides no definition of "wealthy".
The wealthy are doing well. Everyone else is scrimping.
Welcome to the "K-shaped economy."
#WealthInequality #KShapedEconomy #CdnPoli #EconSky #CanadaSky #TaxFairness #WordofTheYear2025
theweek.com/business/eco...
Welcome to the "K-shaped economy."
#WealthInequality #KShapedEconomy #CdnPoli #EconSky #CanadaSky #TaxFairness #WordofTheYear2025
theweek.com/business/eco...
Why has America’s economy gone K-shaped?
The wealthy are doing well. Everybody else is scrimping.
theweek.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Like so many of the growing number of journalistic articles about income and wealth inequality, this article provides no definition of "wealthy".
Reposted by Brad James
I wish financial planners would stop warning ppl about the "OAS clawback"
The OAS is the residue of a pension, launched in 1926, to relieve starvation among the very poor
Now, it (and GIS) helps those people, but also ppl with modest savings/pensions
It's 'clawed back' from the very comfortable
The OAS is the residue of a pension, launched in 1926, to relieve starvation among the very poor
Now, it (and GIS) helps those people, but also ppl with modest savings/pensions
It's 'clawed back' from the very comfortable
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I wish financial planners would stop warning ppl about the "OAS clawback"
The OAS is the residue of a pension, launched in 1926, to relieve starvation among the very poor
Now, it (and GIS) helps those people, but also ppl with modest savings/pensions
It's 'clawed back' from the very comfortable
The OAS is the residue of a pension, launched in 1926, to relieve starvation among the very poor
Now, it (and GIS) helps those people, but also ppl with modest savings/pensions
It's 'clawed back' from the very comfortable
Commentators from the left criticize the Liberals' recent income tax cut as expensive and regressive, but don't mention that NDP members of parliament voted *unanimously* in favour of it.
Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people.
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons ⋆ The Breach
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget
breachmedia.ca
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Commentators from the left criticize the Liberals' recent income tax cut as expensive and regressive, but don't mention that NDP members of parliament voted *unanimously* in favour of it.
Really nice new song from This is Lorelei packs a whole lot into a minute and a half.
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This Is Lorelei - "Name the Band" Official Audio
YouTube video by This Is Lorelei
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November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Really nice new song from This is Lorelei packs a whole lot into a minute and a half.
youtu.be/lBX3hDiA_KM?...
youtu.be/lBX3hDiA_KM?...
None of our union federations in Canada, provincial or national, provide anything like the TUC's "Union Finder". Union membership growth is not their highest priority.
www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
TUC Union Finder: Find Your Union >>
Tell us about your work and we'll find the right union for you.
www.tuc.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
None of our union federations in Canada, provincial or national, provide anything like the TUC's "Union Finder". Union membership growth is not their highest priority.
www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
Plenty of voices are telling us that everything is bleak. Here's a welcome counterpoint, backed by sober evidence, and offered with nuance and context.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Plenty of voices are telling us that everything is bleak. Here's a welcome counterpoint, backed by sober evidence, and offered with nuance and context.
Durand Jones & The Indications put on a fine show Saturday night in Toronto.
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Durand Jones & The Indications put on a fine show Saturday night in Toronto.
These lads and the TUC do it up right.
November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
These lads and the TUC do it up right.
Help from progressive donors to support real journalism on labour stuff? Sure. But if it's members' dues dollars, make the hard choices to shift more of them from some current uses toward lining up smarter, longer, bigger (multi-union) efforts to win sustainable bargaining rights for more people.
This gets said in Canada too, sometimes. The pots of available money among labour centrals up here are not huge, I'd bet. I'd rather see resources get shifted to backstopping actual organizing campaigns ... and favouring large, long-term, multi-union efforts in lower-wage sectors especially.
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Help from progressive donors to support real journalism on labour stuff? Sure. But if it's members' dues dollars, make the hard choices to shift more of them from some current uses toward lining up smarter, longer, bigger (multi-union) efforts to win sustainable bargaining rights for more people.
This gets said in Canada too, sometimes. The pots of available money among labour centrals up here are not huge, I'd bet. I'd rather see resources get shifted to backstopping actual organizing campaigns ... and favouring large, long-term, multi-union efforts in lower-wage sectors especially.
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
This gets said in Canada too, sometimes. The pots of available money among labour centrals up here are not huge, I'd bet. I'd rather see resources get shifted to backstopping actual organizing campaigns ... and favouring large, long-term, multi-union efforts in lower-wage sectors especially.
Crunchy new song for unique being who was known as Beatle Bob, from the ever-young cats in Guided by Voices
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A Tribute to Beatle Bob
YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic
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November 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Crunchy new song for unique being who was known as Beatle Bob, from the ever-young cats in Guided by Voices
youtu.be/bFtdNzLzLxM?...
youtu.be/bFtdNzLzLxM?...
Excellent web-tool-thing you can use that figures out what'd happen to overall federal revenue if the government made the following change to the tax system: [insert the tax reform that you keep cranking on about until people step away from you at parties].
PBO has a ready reckoner that enables calculation of such alternatives
Ready Reckoner share.google/c28YPPYtl9zp...
Ready Reckoner share.google/c28YPPYtl9zp...
Ready Reckoner
share.google
November 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Excellent web-tool-thing you can use that figures out what'd happen to overall federal revenue if the government made the following change to the tax system: [insert the tax reform that you keep cranking on about until people step away from you at parties].
Also decried in the interview was the gov't's previous abandonment of capital gains tax reforms and the resultant savings for very well-off people. Not mentioned: the Liberals' recent income tax cut, which gives its biggest $$ to high and high-middle income earners (and which the NDP supported).
In this brief interview, the economist for the Canadian Labour Congress describes the budget in much gloomier terms than does the CLC's official media statement about the budget (available on the CLC's site) or the Congress's budget-related commentary over on the Twitter.
🎧 PODCAST: Looking inside Mark Carney’s ‘extremely Orwellian’ austerity budget
From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Also decried in the interview was the gov't's previous abandonment of capital gains tax reforms and the resultant savings for very well-off people. Not mentioned: the Liberals' recent income tax cut, which gives its biggest $$ to high and high-middle income earners (and which the NDP supported).
In this brief interview, the economist for the Canadian Labour Congress describes the budget in much gloomier terms than does the CLC's official media statement about the budget (available on the CLC's site) or the Congress's budget-related commentary over on the Twitter.
🎧 PODCAST: Looking inside Mark Carney’s ‘extremely Orwellian’ austerity budget
From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
From $60 billion in cuts to eliminating 40,000 jobs, Canadian Labour Congress Sr. Economist @dtcochrane.bsky.social shares his impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
Looking Inside Mark Carney’s ‘Extremely Orwellian’ Austerity Budget
Canadian Labour Congress DT Cochrane shares his first impressions of the Carney government's first budget live inside the media lock-up in Ottawa
pressprogress.ca
November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In this brief interview, the economist for the Canadian Labour Congress describes the budget in much gloomier terms than does the CLC's official media statement about the budget (available on the CLC's site) or the Congress's budget-related commentary over on the Twitter.
Maybe the big turnouts at the No Kings rallies across the US last month was a harbinger of the good array of wins by Democratic candidates yesterday.
I'm a dual Cdn/US citizen. I wanted to see the No Kings shindig today and to pitch in. So, I went to the Buffalo, NY rally. Very big turnout. People were into it. Plenty of "Not my faux-king President" signs. One guy carried a red & white lettered sign that read "Be like Canada".
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Maybe the big turnouts at the No Kings rallies across the US last month was a harbinger of the good array of wins by Democratic candidates yesterday.
What are the chances that Avi Lewis suddenly grows a beard and starts wearing a black suit everywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
What are the chances that Avi Lewis suddenly grows a beard and starts wearing a black suit everywhere.
Speaking of Conservatives, the Liberals' latest income tax cut in June was unanimously backed by the Conservatives *and the NDP*. It drops fed. revenue by $5.4 billion/year, gives almost zero to people in poverty, and hands its biggest savings to high & high-middle income earners. The NDP, geez...
Looking at the Carney budget that just dropped:
- slashing 40,000 public sector jobs
- watering down Trudeau-era climate promises
- $59 billion in new military spending
- tax writeoffs for big businesses
- cuts to foreign aid
Yeah I can see why a Conservative would want to join the Conservatives
- slashing 40,000 public sector jobs
- watering down Trudeau-era climate promises
- $59 billion in new military spending
- tax writeoffs for big businesses
- cuts to foreign aid
Yeah I can see why a Conservative would want to join the Conservatives
Conservative MP says he’s considering joining Canada’s Liberal government
November 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Speaking of Conservatives, the Liberals' latest income tax cut in June was unanimously backed by the Conservatives *and the NDP*. It drops fed. revenue by $5.4 billion/year, gives almost zero to people in poverty, and hands its biggest savings to high & high-middle income earners. The NDP, geez...
In this good podcast yesterday, nobody disagreed when Jordan Leichnitz decried the Libs for throttling back on revenue. But nobody noted that it was all MPs *including the NDP* that voted for an income tax cut that drops revenue by $5.4 billion/year and helps higher income earners most.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In this good podcast yesterday, nobody disagreed when Jordan Leichnitz decried the Libs for throttling back on revenue. But nobody noted that it was all MPs *including the NDP* that voted for an income tax cut that drops revenue by $5.4 billion/year and helps higher income earners most.
Lengthy, detailed New York Times article asks "Are wealth taxes the best way to tax the ultra-rich?" but doesn't mention any other form of taxation. Nothing about inheritance taxes (save a tiny mention of estate tax), or about income taxes, or about consumption taxes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
Are Wealth Taxes the Best Way to Tax the Ultra Rich?
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Lengthy, detailed New York Times article asks "Are wealth taxes the best way to tax the ultra-rich?" but doesn't mention any other form of taxation. Nothing about inheritance taxes (save a tiny mention of estate tax), or about income taxes, or about consumption taxes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...
I wonder why the progressive Broadbent Institute *isn't* calling for the reversal of the Liberals' latest income tax cut. It slices federal revenue by $5.4 billion/year, gives almost no savings to people in poverty, and hands its biggest benefits to high & high-middle income earners.
Instead of implementing the biggest service reductions in recent Canadian history, this budget should seek to implement measures that raise revenue. broadbentinstitute.ca/research/202...
Submission to the Department of Finance on Fair Tax Measures and Proposed Public Service Workforce Adjustments - Broadbent Institute
The federal government has a choice and, when Canada faced a similar scale of economic challenges, a wartime economy that brings in fair taxation and a stronger public service should be built to meet ...
broadbentinstitute.ca
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I wonder why the progressive Broadbent Institute *isn't* calling for the reversal of the Liberals' latest income tax cut. It slices federal revenue by $5.4 billion/year, gives almost no savings to people in poverty, and hands its biggest benefits to high & high-middle income earners.
In today's Globe and Mail, written by my pal and mentor Brando Paris about our union colleague Leo Gerard. (No on-line link yet.)
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In today's Globe and Mail, written by my pal and mentor Brando Paris about our union colleague Leo Gerard. (No on-line link yet.)
Donald Trump will try again to kill congestion pricing in NYC. Here in Ontario, the Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP are lined up with this Trump on this issue. All three parties oppose giving Toronto the right to bring in any form of road pricing.
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President Trump says he will try again to kill congestion pricing in New York City
In a post to Truth Social, the president said he's asking Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to take what he calls, "a good, long look at terminating" the program.
abc7ny.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Donald Trump will try again to kill congestion pricing in NYC. Here in Ontario, the Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP are lined up with this Trump on this issue. All three parties oppose giving Toronto the right to bring in any form of road pricing.
abc7ny.com/post/nyc-con...
abc7ny.com/post/nyc-con...