The federal government announced their budget. It raises the inclusion rate on capital gains above a gain of 250K$, on businesses and trusts. (Ooh, multiple qualifiers there...) From 50% to 67%.
Cue the "brain drain" Cassandra's, just like the 1990s.
Aside: I notice we use both #CaPoli and #CanPoli here in Canada. I will never forgive the internet standards people for going with the 2-letter iso names instead of the 3-letter ones for country-TLDs and language-codes.
3-letter codes would prevent the "is CA Canada or California".
The biggest countries use 2-letter state/prov codes, so 3-letter countries would prevent ambiguity.
My site should be Pxtl.can, written in en-can not Pxtl.ca written in en-ca.
Very disappointed to see the federal #NDP backing the climate-denying #Conservatives in attacking the carbon tax on natural gas heating.
#Canada's #CarbonTax is revenue neutral - if you've average heating needs, you break even. So cutting it on heating is a de-facto subsidy on large, inefficient homes.
Revenue neutral carbon taxes won a Nobel prize. Anybody with alternate ideas on fighting climate change: show me your Nobel prize.
Canadian Senator Paula Simons addresses the senate chamber on the wave of trans-hate sweeping through some provinces & school boards, here in Canada 😢
She shared good facts & challenged the senate to convene its anti-hate action plan, as outlined in the 2023 budget.
Thank goodness, amidst all the misinformation & bluster, rhetoric is still being put to good use in parliament to call out hate & protect all our people.
Trying to follow this story about Canada's Trudeau accusing the Indian government of assassinating a Sikh leader on its soil, and I'm really feeling the demise of old Twitter. Over on "X" half of the quote-tweets are mysteriously unavailable, it really looks like Musk is helping or allowing the government to suppress discussion. On Bluesky I can only find white people talking about it--the Indian voices are super few and far between. And here on Mastodon, search turns up nothing?