Politics and its Discontents

In my previous post , I mused about how much better society could be if we had fair and progressive taxation, taxation that forced those who...

As a matter of course, I allow myself one hour of television news per evening, 30 minutes local and 30 minutes of either American or Canadia...

From the print edition of the Toronto Star comes this response to a recent column by Linda McQuaig, a response that strikes me as eminent...

The old myth that tax cuts, especially of the corporate kind, create jobs, continues to be circulated. Indeed, here in Ontario, PC leader ...

In his column the other day, Rick Salutin wrote a stout defence of taxes, making it very clear that for him and many others, the word and...

Canadians, along with the West in general, have been fed a neoliberal diet of propaganda and policy for so long that far too many have suc...

In a declaration that will likely earn him the designation 'Enemy of the Capitalist State,' Pope Francis recently called upon the w...

The contrast couldn't be more striking. As announced by federal Fiance Minister Joe Oliver the other day, Ottawa is well on its way to ...

I have a deep respect for Alex Himelfarb , the director of the Glendon School of International and Public Affairs and tireless proponent o...

Don't worry. This is not one of those bromides on how to live a long and happy life. It is, however, a realistic recipe for social coh...

Responding to a column the other day by the Star's Thomas Walkom, letter-writer Bruna Nota of Toronto offers us some timely reminders...

Deeply affronted, perhaps even frightened by the recent change to the Ontario budget that will impose an increase of 2% on the income ...

Long a taboo subject, increasing tax rates for the wealthy is back on the agenda, in no small part due to the Occupy Movement and, more...

Over the past several years, most notably since the ascension to power of the Harper regime, taxation, especially the concept of progressive...

On this Easter Sunday, when many turn their thoughts from the secular to the sacred, it is perhaps a propitious time to remember that the el...

While I continue to remain dubious of what will happen when the Ontario Legislature votes on Dalton McGuinty's budget, I give the leade...

I suppose one has to be of a certain age to remember that progressive taxation has been a mainstay, until fairly recently, of our taxation ...

Thee are many who assert that the Occupy Movement has no relevance in Canada because we have a social safety net and other measures that pro...

I recently wrote a couple of blog posts on Warren Buffett and the need for higher taxation of the very wealthy, an idea that is gaining cur...

Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren speaks on the topic of fair taxation: