Revised Income Splitting
On Thursday, Prime Minister Harper officially announced that he will be implementing income-splitting for qualifying Canadians. He also increased Child Tax Benefits for children under six old, and expanded the ...
Dean Del Mastro Found Guilty of Improper Election Spending
Disgraced Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro has just been found guilty of exeeding election spending limits
Curtailing Free Speech
Conservative Caucus Room shortly after the onset of the shooting. MP NINA GREWAL
Canada is still regaining its composure after the shocking events of last week, when two disturbed individuals at...
Court Claim Airport Searches Not Racial Profiling If Based on On-the-Job Experience
Meet Ting Ting Tam, a 72-year-old retired hairdresser, who was born in China, and currently lives in Ottawa. On November 7, 2012, Tam was fined $800 at the Macdonald-Cartier International Airport in Ottawa upon...
Jian Ghomeshi to Sue CBC for $50 Million, Fired After “Information” Surfaced
Jian Ghomeshi, the (former) host of CBC's Q radio show, recently announced he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from his duties in order to deal with "personal issues." News just broke that Ghomeshi wil...
15 Ways to Spend Canada’s Budget Surplus
It appears that the Tories have made good on their promise to give Canada a surplus by the next Federal Election. The last time Canada boasted a surplus was in 2007, where it amounted to about 9.6 billion dolla...
More Tax but Fewer Taxes?
Justin Trudeau says a Liberal government would reverse the Conservatives’ decision to implement income splitting if they win the 2015 federal election. The announcement comes as we inch closer to the fall econo...
A Season of Elections
In Canadian politics, next fall shall usher in a Season of Elections. We will see not only the Federal election scheduled for October 19th but also four Provincial elections and a Territorial election between O...
Where Will the 2015 Surplus Go?
Surplus: Canadians born after 2008 may be unfamiliar with the term. It is essentially an inverse debt, an anti-shortage. A surplus in the treasury means that there is more coming in than there is going out. It ...
Plans for Canada’s 150th Celebration: Possibly Partisan
Celebrating a milestone like a country’s 150th birthday can’t be done on the cheap. Nevertheless, people have raised eyebrows over how much our government will spend on remembering the past rather than fixing t...