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Climate activist Greta Thunberg announces plans to visit Alberta

Sara Austin, a Calgary child advocate who helped create the United Nations protocol that Thunberg used to file her complaint, said she hopes Thunberg’s visit urges Albertans to consider issues impacting youth in light of the upcoming federal election.

“The perspectives that I hear from most Canadian youth I speak to are these issues should be non-partisan. The health and well-being of our children should be something we can all support and all get behind and set aside our partisan politics and really take action for the sake of our young people,” said Austin.

“Kids represent a quarter of our population and 100 per cent of our future, so it’s really important that we listen to them.”

October 14, 2019

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Singh leaves door open to support for government pipeline ownership

OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh left the door open Friday to
supporting government ownership of the Trans Mountain pipeline, comments
that come as polling suggests a minority Parliament is increasingly
likely.

Singh has already ruled out propping up a minority Conservative
government led by Andrew Scheer, so his position on Trans Mountain could
be a significant consideration if the Liberals seek to form a
government without a majority of seats.

October 14, 2019

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Federal election 2019: What’s in it for seniors?

Baby boomers have been replaced by millennials as the largest generation in Canada but remain a powerful voting bloc that all major parties are eager to court.

And while Canadians in their 20s and 30s are struggling with student debt, sky-high housing prices and unaffordable child care, seniors face some serious affordability challenges of their own.

Many , for example, have little in the way of retirement savings. A 2018 poll by CIBC found that 32 per cent had nothing at all set aside for old age. But even those who have been saving up are often worried about outliving their money.

October 13, 2019

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Fact Check: Andrew Scheer’s Universal Tax Cut doesn’t help 9 million Canadians

The policy release frames the cuts as geared towards low-income
Canadians, stating that “every Canadian will see their income taxes go
down, and those in the lowest tax bracket see the biggest benefit of
all.”

But according to
Trevor Tombe, an economics professor at the University of Calgary, only
two-thirds of Canadians who file their taxes would be affected by the
changes. Nearly nine million Canadians would see no benefit at all.

What’s more, the greatest benefit of the cut would not be for those
in the lowest tax bracket but instead for the wealthiest Canadians. Tombe’s analysis
as first reported by PressProgress shows that families making more than
$150,000 receive more than double what the average Canadian family
receives.

October 13, 2019

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The NDP platform: ambitious promises, lots of uncertainty | CBC News

“Overall, the fiscal strategy in the NDP Party Platform Costing
is one of significant fiscal expansion and a commitment to a reduction
in the debt-to-GDP ratio over the medium-term,” says the report-card.
But it warns that the “historic” tax increases “come with significant
economic and fiscal risk,” and that the equally huge spending increases
likely would require tough and bitter negotiations with the provinces.

“The
New Democrats are proposing significant changes to the tax and spending
structure of the federal government,” Mostafa Askari, the chief
economist for the IFSD, told CBC News. “Those objectives are very
difficult to achieve without causing significant disruption in the
economy.”

The NDP costing doesn’t provide much detail about its
spending promises. And there is reason to question the accuracy of the
party’s revenue projections as well.

October 13, 2019

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