August 2025 Poll

A public consultation on whether the CDIC’s deposit insurance limit should be raised to $150,000 per deposit category is underway.  Do you agree?

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The income gap between Canada’s top 1% of taxfilers and the other 99% is still substantial. But, so too is the gap between the amount of taxes paid by the two groups. In 2010, the “rich” accounted for a disproportionate share.

On Jan. 14, Gary William Mechar of Kamloops, B.C., was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $276,655 in restitution to two financial institutions.

The unstable global economy tops the list of “urgent” issues to address in 2013, says the World Economic Forum (WEF).