Canada and the World
Current Events with a Canadian Perspective
Last update
23 January 2012
Government
The Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development has published its list
of countries that help people evade taxes
Canada’s Cities Struggle With Funding
Canada used to have model cities, but funding
cutbacks have knocked them down for decades
Canada’s Parliament is Supreme, not the Prime Minister
The Speaker of the House of Commons
has ruled that the Harper government
must hand over documents about Afghan detainees
Stephen Harper’s Conservative want to close
down a program that requires people
to register their rifles and shotguns
The paying of bribes for government services
and the diversion of aid money are endemic in
Pakistan from the lowliest to the highest officials
Even before bank bailouts and stimulus spending
most industrialized economies were swimming in debt;
the recession has made the problem bigger
Most government programs rely heavily
from data collected during census taking
Greece is just one of many countries that
have borrowed too much and taxed too little
to pay for government programs
Ottawa Clamps down on Information
Government secrecy has increased to the point
where the right of citizens to know what’s going on
is close to being “totally obliterated.”
Tax Cheating a Growing Problem
Which is the bigger threat to government
revenues, welfare cheats or tax evaders?
Wall Street Occupations Go Global
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to
the streets worldwide to protest against the
behaviour of financial institutions and the
governments they say enabled their activity