UCP Premier Danielle Smith has created a cabinet committee to find government cost savings to pay for the postponed personal income tax cut election promise

A Canadian accounting professor explains that development relationships like USAID are shaped by both the interests of donors and those of the recipients.

An export tax on Canadian oil and gas to the United States could inflict pain on the American economy but could also backfire in the States and domestically

Canadian companies and pension funds were already lobbying for appropriate tax treatment ahead of President Trump pulling out of the OECD minimum tax deal

Donald Trump has put Pierre Poilievre in a political bind, with two feuding conservative premiers, stale messaging around taxes and no coherent trade policy

Numerous factors including inflation, limited housing, a weaker dollar, and global political tensions, continue to play a significant role in affordability

Small business owners in towns like Vankleek Hill, Ontario are critical of the federal sales tax holiday, questioning its value and criticizing its rollout

Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news

Capping the stock option tax deducation is a a decisive shift away from stock options as a means of compensation but the overall salary gap remains high

There are measurable costs to carbon pricing but they pale in comparison to global factors; for many Canadians, the tax rebate is far larger than the costs

Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news

Ontario makes material change to fund OPP costs in 2025 but municipalities wonder what will happen in 2026 and beyond to offset potential property tax hikes

To integrate further through appeasement with a country that has rejected the rule of law would be to surrender Canadian sovereignty to the United States

Danny Whalen, president of the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities, says the Ontario government must take back responsibility for OPP costing

A review of recent CRA changes of note affecting Saskatchewan residents, including farmers, such as electronic filing, correspondence and automatic filing

Queen's Park is doling out $77-million to help ease sticker shock in municipalities provincewide from Ontario Provincial Police increased contract costs

Prior to the provincial election, the conservatives had promised a milti-million dollar surplus, but healthcare costs have driven the budget into deficit

The municipality of Willow Creek has requested provincial support to “rat out bad actors” in collecting unpaid taxes from delinquent oil and gas companies

In the House of Commons, fact and fiction aren’t always absolutes; they’re often selective interpretations of cherry-picked data, on food banks or taxation

Doane Grant Thornton, which recently rebranded, held a Vibrant Communities civic improvement event at Fort William Historical Park for Thunder Bay business

Ontario taxpayers may be saved from municipal property tax hikes if Doug Ford fixes ridiculous increase in police billing costs of new provincial contract

From taxes and tariffs to deregulation, Donald Trump may scare Canadian economists, but accountants are sure to benefit from a second Trump term

New Brunswick business supports a Liberal plan to give all industrial property taxes to municipalities but is wary of decoupling taxation from the province

Pierre Poilievre’s axe the tax message ignores the benefits of the carbon tax for most Canadians and avoids its real target — corporations and the wealthy

David Emmerman of Xero explains how Canadian accountants and bookkeepers can empower small business owners with the financial resources they need