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1. This year, Canadians celebrate Tax Freedom Day today—June 10

   This year Canadians celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 10. That means if you paid your annual tax bill up front, you’d give government every dollar you earned before Tax Freedom Day. It’s only from June 10 onward that you’re finally ...

2. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 10, 2018

   In 2018, the average Canadian family will earn $115,724 in income and pay a total of $50,464 in taxes (43.6%). If the average Canadian family had to pay its total tax bill of $50,464 up front, it would have worked until June 9 to pay the total tax ...

3. Headlines fuel exaggerated concerns about household debt

   “Canada’s household debt burden hits record,” read a recent Globe and Mail headline. It’s a headline familiar to many Canadians. In fact, it’s repeated so often that you can be forgiven if you think household debt in this country is out ...

4. If you think June 9 is too late for Tax Freedom Day, just wait

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, June 9, 2017 The official start of summer is just a few weeks away and we’re fast approaching the half-way point of the year. So consider this—if you had to pay all your taxes for the year up front, you would have worked for ...

5. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 9, 2017

   In 2017, the average Canadian family will earn $108,674 in income and pay a total of $47,135 in taxes (43.4%). If the average Canadian family had to pay its total tax bill of $47,135 up front, it would have worked until June 8 to pay the total tax ...

6. Secret ballot vote for union certification empowers workers, promotes democratic principles

   Canada’s Senate may not always live up to its ideal of being the chamber of “sober second thought,” but from time to time Senators can contribute to better policy outcomes by getting their counterparts in the House of Commons to ...

7. In Canada, being born to poor parents doesn’t resign you to same economic fate

   If Canada was a place where children of poor parents could not rise up and improve their economic standing, this would be a troubling state of affairs. After all, it would mean that economic fate is pre-determined. Thankfully, that’s not ...

8. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 7, 2016

   In 2016, the average Canadian family will earn $105,236 in income and pay a total of $45,167 in taxes (42.9%). If the average Canadian family had to pay its total tax bill of $45,167 up front, it would have worked until June 6 to pay the total tax bill ...

9. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 10, 2015

   On Tax Freedom Day, the average Canadian family has earned enough money to pay the taxes imposed on it by the three levels of government: federal, provincial, and local. In 2015, Canadians celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 10. That is, Canadians will have ...

10. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Canada

    With heightened interest in how wages and non-wage benefits in the government sector compare with those in the private sector, this study estimates wage differentials between the government and private sector in Canada. It also evaluates four available ...