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Canadian Seniors Offer to Take Less Old Age Security YouTube video by GenerationSqueeze

Have you seen our video series with Canadian retirees offering to take less from OAS in order to totally eliminate poverty for all seniors AND invest more in young Canadians? Here's our teaser. If you'd like to record one let us know as we're looking for more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUb...

In Davos, the rich talk about ‘global threats’. Here’s why they’re silent about the biggest of them all | Ingrid Robeyns Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them, says economist and historian Ingrid Robeyns

Government leaders, executives, and heads of state are in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum, which purports to be a discussion place for the world's biggest challenges.

But they're missing the most important one: extreme wealth inequality.

www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

yeah they call 'em "spitters" :D

That's the cool part about being a fruit nerd that nobody tells you about. You love fruit so much, you wind up spending your life eating all the GODAWFUL ones so nobody else has to

I ❤️ NY

It's time for the wealthy to ask themselves: Do they want to be rich people in a poor country?

Or do they want to be rich in a country with great healthcare, education, and infrastructure where everyone has economic security and the opportunity to thrive?

If it's the latter, they should join us!

A deficit paid by workers and a bailout for the wealthy Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17 billion, yet ordinary Canadians face cuts to essential services while the ultra-wealthy and multinational corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing loo...

C4TF’s Jared A. Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social in @canadiandimension.bsky.social on why a deficit shouldn’t be shouldered by workers and why the wealthy should foot the bill instead canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Oxfam Canada Inequality Scorecard 2025 Inequality in Canada is not inevitable. It's a choice. This scorecard cuts through the noise to examine where Canada truly stands on tackling inequality, from soaring costs of living and unchecked wea...

People like to claim the rich already pay too many taxes.

But the wealthiest 1% pay an effective rate of 23.6%

The average for working Canadians? 36.7%/

Check out the new inequality scorecard from our friends @oxfamcanada.bsky.social

www.oxfam.ca/publication/...

"In 2024, billionaire wealth grew by $309 million daily, pushing the total wealth of Canada's 65 billionaires to nearly $500B – more than the combined GDP of many countries.... Fair taxation is one of the most powerful tools to tackle inequality."

My kid just asked me if we could farm manatees and I was so excited that I knew where to find the answer.

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

This kicks ass. Imagine walking around and seeing these up everywhere in shop windows. Imagine folks starting to question why some businesses have them and others don't. This is what building community wide defiance looks like. It's not everything, but it's something. And it's something you can do!

How Rich Canadians Got Even Richer | The Tyee Canada’s income gap reached a record high this year. How did we get here?

"The richest, and the top one per cent in particular, have captured a significantly outsized proportion of economic growth,” — @silasxuereb.bsky.social with @c4tf.bsky.social

thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

#BCLab #CanEcon

Speed limit on Vancouver residential streets to be reduced to 30 km/h | CBC News Vancouver city council has voted unanimously to reduce speed limits on residential streets from 50 to 30 kilometres per hour. Mayor Ken Sim says data shows slower speed limits make neighbourhoods safe...

Yes! More of this, please! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Rich Should Be Paying More—and Yes, That Means Me The last 50 years have been a sickening catastrophe for the working class and have created another class of people who really do think they’re better than everyone else. There is an obvious cure for t...

A tax code is a communal expression of social priorities—not a set of rules to be gamed.

A tax code is a statement of moral principles.

Taxes got us into this mess, and taxes are the only way out: newrepublic.com/article/1961...

The Trump-Musk feud exposes America’s wealth-hoarding crisis | Gabriel Zucman The Tesla boss wields power no one person should have. But there’s a way to fix the problem

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The Overwhelming Case for a Wealth Tax | The Tyee Even a small tax on the richest could transform Canada.

"Canada urgently needs robust public investment in our physical and social infrastructure...We also need to reduce the extreme concentration of wealth at the top, which distorts democracy and frays our social fabric"

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

The first thing I thought when I saw this headline was “Matasar: not right now”

This is really bad, signed a historian of food safety

So good. Listeria or ivermectin

Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...

Non-sufficient funds fee will be limited to $10 in Canada starting next year | CBC News In his final days in office, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government made good on its promise to limit the ability of Canadian banks to charge hefty fees when somebody doesn't have enough in...

Love to see this.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Explainer: What is the capital gains exclusion loophole? WHAT IS A CAPITAL GAIN AND WHAT IS CAPITAL PROPERTY?

Well, here we go again… Looks like our Capital Gains Exclusion Explainer is relevant again—but not for the reason we’d hoped.

The measure is soon to be scrapped.

Still don’t know what it is (or why the wealthiest love it)? Get a refresher here:
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Pictures Shouldn't Be Worth a Trillion Dollars

Less than two months since Donald Trump took office, three of the world’s wealthiest men – Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk – have given what amounts to a free master class on why extreme wealth is so dangerous.

The Patriotic Millionaires explain in our latest Closer Look:

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I wouldn’t know how to be in this moment without her.