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Municipal

What will cost more in 2025

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

GST holiday brings mixed feelings, hurdles for local businesses

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

Sunday News Roundup 25.01.12: Bench accounting lessons, CPAB rule changes and more Canadian accounting news

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

Canada's top CEOs make 210 times more than the average worker

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
Business

Carbon pricing has only a 'tiny' impact on inflation: economists

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
Business

Sunday News Roundup 24.12.08: Ford rebates policing costs, defanging the audit watchdogs, and more Canadian accounting news

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

Timiskaming: Province provides assistance to offset 2025 policing costs

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
Thought Leaders

Trump’s proposed tariffs against Canada and Mexico may be illegal, but that’s not the real problem

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
Business

OPP bills jumping in 2025: FONOM joining municipalities for province to take back OPP costing

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

Saskatchewan: CRA changes to note

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

Rural politicians relieved over $77M funding to cover spiking police costs

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

New N.B. finance minister blames Tories as deficit grows to $92M

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

Alberta: Willow Creek Municipal District calls out deadbeat tax evaders

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

Taber, Alberta: Shields calls for ‘relief’ during economy debate

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
Business

Thunder Bay: Doane Grant Thornton helps business leaders make a vibrant community

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

Midland mayor says premier promises relief for 'absurd' OPP costs

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

Five ways Donald Trump’s election victory is good for Canadian accountants

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

New Brunswick: A $29M fight over big industry taxes

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

Canadians are being given muddied information about the carbon tax; the facts are crystal clear — it saves money for most

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
Partner Posts

Report: Canadian small business owners’ financial literacy skills come up short

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

Increased policing costs will impact all municipal budgets

Municipalities seeing shocking increases in Ontario Provincial Police costs and future property tax levies after Ford government’s OPP collective agreement
Business

Carbon rebate 'double-double' helps Gananoque business

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault was in Gananoque to present a one-time rural top-up Canada Carbon Rebate to the owners of the Pistachio Café
Business

Willow Creek, Alberta: Carbon tax survey raises council’s ire

Alberta municipality Willow Creek responds with claims, complaints, confusion to provincial government survey on negative impacts of the federal carbon tax
Business

Alberta: Kneehill County writes off $68k in unpaid oil and gas property taxes

The Alberta municipality, vocal in its concern over unpaid property taxes, has turned over the wells of four oil companies to the Orphan Wells Association
Thought Leaders

Cineplex’s $38.9 million fine is a wake-up call about corporate sustainability practices

Accounting professor Douglas A. Stuart asserts the Competition Bureau’s fine for drip pricing practices is just one example of sustainability mismanagement