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Ethics Committee Should Be Ethical and Not Gut C-461
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 days ago
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Given the current scandals in the Senate relating to ethics and accountability, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is urging MPs on the Commons Ethics Committee to reject pressure from the Harper government to gut a private member's bill that
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Senate Scandal Requires Accountability Act 2.0
Toronto :: Canada | 4 days ago
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) today called on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to introduce an Accountability Act 2.0, to put an end to expense fraud by Senators and restore the confidence of Canadians in Parliament. The CTF is proposing five
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Canadian Taxpayers Federation calls on all MPs to Support Bill C-476
Toronto :: Canada | 26 days ago
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling on MPs from every political party to support the NDP's Bill C-476 when it comes up for debate this morning in the House of Commons, to make the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) a completely
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Mummies had clogged arteries too
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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Long before the Western diet of red meat, fat and salt, ancient hunter-gatherers also suffered from clogged arteries, U.S. researchers say mummies reveal. Senior author Caleb Finch, a professor at the University of Southern California's Davis School
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1,000 benefit from eye-care programme
Kingston :: Jamaica | 4 months ago
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Jamaica says more than 1,000 people benefitted from procedures conducted under the Jamaica-Cuba Eye Care programme last year. Coordinator of the programme, Gregory Thomas, said that 1,250 people benefitted from the project and an additional 16,000
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Unions Talking Out of Both Sides of Their Mouth on Business Tax Rates
Ottawa :: Canada | 4 months ago
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Canada's union movement is talking out of both sides of its mouth, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), when it attacks Canadian businesses for holding too much cash on their balance sheets. On the one hand, the Canadian Labour
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CTF Releases Nation-Wide New Year's Tax Changes for 2013
Ottawa :: Canada | 5 months ago
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In its annual New Year's Tax Changes report released today, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) slammed federal and provincial governments for raiding taxpayers at a time when they need the money to make ends meet. Every Canadian will be paying
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Ontario Losing Millions in Tobacco Tax Each Year to Contraband on Reserves
Ottawa :: Canada | 5 months ago
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) released a new report today showing that together the provincial and federal government are losing upwards of $1.1 billion dollars annually in tobacco tax revenues due to contraband tobacco sales in Ontario
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CTF Applauds Proposed Reforms to Canada's Access to Information Act in Rathgeber bill
Ottawa :: Canada | 7 months ago
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The reforms in Bill C-461 are a step in the right direction to providing taxpayers the salary numbers they're entitled to know. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation applauded reforms to federal access-to-information law proposed in private member's
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Proposed Ontario Food Tax is Quack Economics and Bad Fiscal Medicine
Berlin :: Germany | 7 months ago
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) sharply criticized the suggestion of new Ontario taxes on food containing quantities of sugar and fat deemed excessive, as proposed in a news release today from the Ontario Medical Association. These new taxes
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