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Category: Taxes and Benefits
Happening: New higher income taxes go into effect Monday
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WSIB compensation premiums will hold steady in 2015
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board says that employer-paid premiums for worker compensation will remain largely frozen for the second year running. ...
Heard: Striking Bombardier workers present at TTC board meeting
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Ontario, Quebec vulnerable to interest-rate hikes from debts
Ontario and Quebec each spent $10.6 billion last year on interest costs on their huge debts, a number that could rise as the cost of carrying debt is expected to increase, the Fraser Institute warns. ...
Bombardier Thunder Bay plant still rolling despite strike
Management workers building public transit vehicles four weeks into a strike by 900 unionized workers over a two-tiered pension plan. ...
CPPIB sinks $330 million into U.S. housing developments
Part of Canada Pension Plan money manager's strategy to broaden the scope of its investments into high-quality real estate and the U.S. market. ...
Wynne challenges Ottawa to quadruple infrastructure spending
At Toronto summit, Premier calls on federal government to spend $30 billion a year - $12 billion of that in Ontario - and to make it permanent and predictable so that localities can plan accordingly. ...
Happening: Another big insurer joins industry anti-fraud system
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Power pensions report wasn’t buried, Wynne insists
Premier says there was 'no plot' in the timing of the release of a March 18 report about hydro pensions that potentially would have been juicy fodder for the election campaign. ...