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A top CEO in Canada makes 243 times the average worker’s salary. Despite increases in worker productivity, average real wages have stagnated for everyday Canadians while corporate profits have skyrocketed.
So why is there such a reluctance to raise corporate taxes?
Today in The Conversation Canada, Junaid B. Jahangir of MacEwan University delves into the tired argument too often espoused by politicians, corporations and governments that raising corporate taxes kills investment, jobs and economic growth.
They’re “zombie ideas” that aren’t based in reality, but instead pander to corporate interests, harm the public interest and refuse to die, he writes.
Also today:
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The United Conservative Party demonized the NDP’s proposals for a corporate tax rate increase during the recent provincial election campaign. But were the concerns the UCP raised based in reality?
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Junaid B. Jahangir, MacEwan University
The conventional narrative on corporate tax increases relies on ‘zombie ideas’ that pander to corporate interests, harm the public interest and refuse to die.
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Long-term care workers shared ideas for mitigating moral distress at work, and these focused on improved communication, collaboration and support.
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Bonnie Lashewicz, University of Calgary; Pauline McDonagh Hull, University of Calgary
Long-term care workers experienced mental health challenges and moral distress during the pandemic. Research shows why workplace standards and support for workers are crucial to the future of LTC.
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An internally displaced person prepares a meal for her family inside an IDP camp in Benue State in northcentral Nigeria in January 2022.
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Michael Ekwe, Concordia University
Two formidable forces have converged to push Nigeria’s food security to the brink: climate change, with its unpredictable weather patterns, and terrorism.
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Work conditions have largely been absent from Canada’s federal income support network — an approach that differs greatly from the United States.
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Wayne Simpson, University of Manitoba
The U.S. and Canada both have different approaches when it comes to work conditions and income assistance programs.
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Culture + Society
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María del Pilar Kaladeen, School of Advanced Study, University of London
When people think about the Windrush generation, they are unlikely to imagine someone like my father, who was not black but a person of Indian-Caribbean heritage.
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Politics
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Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
What was behind the latest encounter between US and Chinese military vessels in contested waters?
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Science + Tech
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Michael Petraglia, Griffith University; Emmanuel K. Ndiema, National Museums of Kenya; María Martinón-Torres, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH); Nicole Boivin, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Homo naledi had a brain less than half the size of our own. Yet the new research claims it had cognitive abilities far beyond what we might expect.
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