If you earn $350k because you're a doctor, save lives, and do real productive work, you pay $140k in taxes.

If you buy an investment property, do literally nothing to it, then sell it for $350k more than you paid for it, you pay $55k* in taxes.

*presuming no other income

Young people: Please help us. We cannot afford to live.

Bank economists: Actually, you should want nothing because otherwise debt will be a problem later on.

Young people: Cool, but I cannot pay for things I need today.

This is from Hamilton, but it might as well be a statement for just about every city in Ontario's.

People need to wake up to the housing crisis reality.

Rich people have been proving my point all evening. They will do anything to convince you that them paying slightly more tax and being slightly less rich is really bad for you. It is truly fascinating to watch.

…also depressing, because I have deep archives of related papers, and governments have been circling around the same problems and ideas for decades, and it took fundamentally breaking the system - and the prospect of a political wipeout - to trigger action.

It's quite something to see the premier say the feds can't make agreements with municipalities in exchange for funding without her permission, especially when both the Liberals and the Conservatives federally talked about using the same strategy to get gatekeepers out of the way.

Of two minds here;

1) We clearly need some transit solutions in that part of the city.

2) Saying no to this building will just mean the people who would have lived there live in Lucan, so that ain't helping either.

I believe the correct phrase for this specific obscene paycheque is.... eat the rich.

Loblaw's new CEO was paid $22M for his first two months at work last year. November and December.

But yes, it's the carbon tax.

So the feds are going to work with the provinces to deliver the new school food program… so Loblaws is about to get another big deal from Doug Ford’s government

April Fools’ Day is the day people critically evaluate everything they read on the internet before accepting it as the truth. Funny because that should be an every day thing.

Your government cut rent control, froze minimum wage, cut paid sick days, violated collective bargaining rights, and allowed natural gas rates to increase.

That's not making life more affordable.

Saves me $0 because I don’t buy gas. But yay for me, I get to subsidize everyone else’s consumption of gas and subsequent GHG emissions.

You want to save day-to-day, hard-working Canadians a tonne of cash?

Break up the banking, grocery, airline, and telecom oligopolies.

Canadians pay way more because our country is a handful of oligopolies than they do because of the carbon tax.

The right should make that their crusade!

For a driver who fills a 50-litre tank once a week, the ongoing cut to the provincial gas tax means saving $148 a year.

For the provincial treasury, it means forgoing revenue of about $1.2 billion a year. #onpoli

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Profit margins taken by food retailers like Loblaws doubled over the pandemic. The carbon tax is not even close to being responsible for high grocery prices. Poilievre's senior advisor, Jenni Byrne, lobbies for Loblaws. Her disinformation campaign on the carbon tax has worked.