Business

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