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The near hysterical debate over the small-business taxation demonstrates a simple truth: Canada’s tax system has become mind-numbingly complicated. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to consider more-complete reform. The current system is plagued by huge differences in how different types of income are taxed. It’s riddled with complexities and inequities. Taken together, those problems are […]Read More

It is a Friday night in Etobicoke and the tribe that calls itself Ford Nation is gathering for its annual love-in. Hundreds of Ford fans crowd the vast suburban backyard of the family seat on Weston Wood Road. Some join the line for burgers that circles behind the swimming pool. Others wait for plastic cups of […]

New Brunswick became the second province to start unveiling plans to sell recreational marijuana next year, when the federal government expects to lift nearly a century of prohibition on the product. The province announced on Friday that it has created a Crown corporation to oversee sales of recreational marijuana, and has signed agreements with two […]

There are words and phrases in investing that are used so loosely they have lost all meaning. ‘Cheap stock’ is one of these. When a manager of broker calls a stock ‘cheap,’ or the more subtle ‘attractively valued,’ the first question that should pop in to an investor’s mind is ‘compared to what?’ An equity […]Read More

The often cozy – sometimes way too cozy – relationship between auditors and their clients was put on humiliating public display Friday, when the fallout from the Bell Pottinger PR scandal in South Africa hit the local arm of KPMG, one of the world’s Big Four auditing firms. Eight top managers of KPMG’s South African […]

A half-dozen volunteers, mostly women, are working quickly, unloading box after box from a rented van at Toronto’s Moss Park: shrink-wrapped packs of bottled water, a crate marked “syringes,” yellow sharps disposal containers for needles, a pair of oxygen tanks, white plastic pails – each labelled “puke bucket” – and a clear plastic box with […]Read More

This past February, Hazel Millar, co-publisher of the Toronto independent press BookThug, submitted a novel to be considered for this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize. Not long afterward, she received an e-mail from the prize submissions manager, alerting her that this would be BookThug’s sole entry for the year. Confused, for she’d always entered more than […]Read More

In a future where cars are self-driving, the only part of them that drivers may own is the steering wheel. That’s the idea behind Jaguar Land Rover’s “Sayer” concept, unveiled last week at the British car maker’s technology showcase in London. The oblong steering wheel would be equipped with microphones, speakers and artificially intelligent software […]Read More

What is the sound of a stock market at a record high and nobody buying it? Even with stocks in the midst of one of their best-ever runs, investors are on pace to pull more money out of U.S. stock funds than they put in for the third straight year and the eighth in the […]

FIFA announced on Thursday a new and simplified format for the 2018 World Cup draw with the teams to be grouped by their place in the world ranking rather than their continent. The global soccer body said that the 32 teams would be divided into four pots with the seven top-ranked teams plus hosts Russia […]

Dr. Anne Niec is president and Dr. Beverly Johnson is president-elect of the Federation of Medical Women in Canada, a non-profit organization committed to empowering female physicians at all stages of their career. The number of women practising medicine in Canada has increased significantly over the last 20 years. Female physicians join the ranks of […]

Transport Minister Marc Garneau pushed back Thursday against suggestions the Liberals’ proposed air passenger bill of rights is too heavy-handed with airlines, saying the government’s intent is not to pick on air carriers. Garneau told a Commons committee studying the proposal that the government’s goal is to create regulations that are fair to airlines and […]Read More