Tag: Canadian Taxpayers Federation

5 totally irrational reactions to Alberta’s new Climate Leadership Plan

Published November 23, 2015

Groups ranging from environmentalists to oil companies pledged their support for the province's new climate change strategy. But not everyone was convinced.

10 grumpy conservative voices Canadians are better off not listening to about climate science

Published November 21, 2015

Are you ready for the Paris climate conference? Here's a list of people and groups that will probably chime in.

Conservative MP billed taxpayers for event hosted by same anti-tax group he used to run

Published June 18, 2015

Is Conservative MP John Williamson "living high on the hog?"

ESPN ices Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s theory that NHL players want tax breaks

Published February 24, 2015

Oops! The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is offside. Again A few months ago, the right-wing, anti-tax group released a report claiming that lowering taxes could help your favourite NHL team attract star players — and maybe even win the Stanley Cup. One problem, though: the CTF’s own numbers showed the two lowest taxed teams in the NHL (the Calgary Flames […]

Anti-tax group accidentally shows taxing millionaires could help NHL teams win the Stanley Cup

Published November 18, 2014

Do millionaire hockey players pay too much in taxes? And could lowering taxes for millionaires actually help your favourite hockey team win the Stanley Cup? The questions may be ridiculous, but that hasn’t stopped the anti-tax brigade at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation from exploring the issue in depth in a new report. “Take a break from […]

Jason Kenney and a guy at the Fraser Institute trade blows in Twitter cat fight

Published September 13, 2014

You don’t see this everyday: two high-ranking members of Canada’s conservative family taking a run at each other in public. But that’s what Employment Minister Jason Kenney and Fraser Institute Senior Fellow Mark Milke have just done over the government’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. It began when Kenney took exception to an Edmonton Journal article about a […]

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