👋 Self-employed person, here. This is nonsensical.
To write that the Canada Recovery Benefit is a "massive tax increase" that raises marginal rates to as high as "119 per cent" is absolutely absurd. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…
Let's start with what the CRB actually is — because, for whatever reason, it's not actually explained in the article (though Prof. Broadway does in his blog.) To qualify, you must have earned $5,000+ pre-pandemic, and have seen a 50% reduction in your income due to COVID-19.
If you qualify, you receive $500 per week, up to $13,000. If you earn more than $34,000, each CRB dollar is clawed back at a rate of 50% at year-end. Beyond $64,000 every extra dollar is paid back. That makes sense, right? If you break $64k, you didn't need the CRB.
If this program were designed as a kind of guaranteed minimum income, it'd be bad. But, as Prof. Broadway writes: "the CRB in its current form would not be a well-designed addition to Canada’s social safety net." It's not a mincome, it's a top-up for lost revenue.
I have plenty of grievances with taxation of self-employed folks, but offering $13k for those who've seen business dry up ain't it, sis.
You cannot call this a talk-hike on the self-employed. It's factually incorrect.
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Unbelievable. A man is facing life-threatening injuries because this has been allowed to spiral out of control. Ottawa has unlimited money and time for dairy farmers, but apparently can't bother to intervene to find an amicable solution to this? cbc.ca/news/canada/no…
The RCMP spends lots of time raiding Indigenous camps in the way of pipelines, but can't step in to stop arson and violence? vice.com/en/article/pkd…
Meanwhile, all those promises of a nation-to-nation relationship seem pretty hallow right now. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
Outgoing Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer is currently painting the Trudeau government as a Stalinist/Chavista/Castroist regime that has left "harm and misery" in its wake.
Can't believe the public never came around to this guy!
Scheer: "Challenge the mainstream media, don't take their narrative as fact, check out smart, independent, objective organizations...like the Post Millennial and True North."
Neither outlet is objective, neither follows any kind of journalism ethics guide. This is nutty.
The story of WE is so much more than some speaking fees or a $40,000 cheque. This scandal is about the house that Trudeau built. vice.com/en_us/article/…
I grant you this story is long. But I went through so many hundreds of financial disclosure documents to report it out.
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In December, Corey Hurren was helping the RCMP hunt for two teens wanted in a string of murders. Now, he's under investigation by the Mounties' national security team. thestar.com/politics/feder…
The full charge sheet for Hurren just came through. On his person and in his truck, he had a rifle, a revolver, and two shotguns.
It's not clear to me whether it's alleged that he had these weapons illegally, or whether he just didn't have an Authorization to Transport for them. (You need to inform the RCMP if you're travelling with a restricted weapon.)
Hi Senator, I encourage you to read a newspaper. But, barring that, why don't we go through some of the ways in which prisons are not safe places to be? Here's a thread:
First off, long-term care homes aren't a federal responsibility. So juxtaposing them to prisons is disingenuous to begin with. (That said, Ottawa obviously can and should step up to do more to help provinces handle it, but that's a separate issue.)
Federal corrections are purely a federal concern. Ottawa is directly responsible for 15,000-some inmates. At the best of times, those prisons as pretty bad vectors for infectious disease. A 2017 study of an H1N1 outbreak found six sick inmates exposed, in total, 144 other inmates