Want to boost birth rates? Stop taxing mothers
Birth rates are hard for public policy to change. But it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try. A bold idea would be to grant mothers an income tax exemption.
Birth rates are hard for public policy to change. But it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try. A bold idea would be to grant mothers an income tax exemption.
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. Here are the headlines for April 26, 2024.
For several decades Canada’s population growth rate hovered at about 1.0 percent annually. This rate has more than tripled in a few short years, up to 3.3 percent in 2023.
Bombardier represents the most calamitous example in a real-world track record of industrial policy that suggests we need more, not less, skepticism about government’s ability to successfully pick winners and losers.
By far the largest export market for American wine by revenue is Canada, which bought USD $484 million worth in 2022.
The Canadian and Ontario governments have announced four new Honda EV plants in Alliston, Ontario.
Former U.N Force Commander Roméo Dallaire discusses the Rwandan genocide, whether peacekeeping and the international human rights movement has failed, and Canada’s shrinking role in the world.
Hub Headlines is a daily audio program of TheHub.ca. It features audio versions of the best commentaries and analysis published daily in The Hub. Enjoy listening to original and provocative takes on the issues that matter while you are on the go. Here are the headlines for April 25, 2024.
When governments, Left and Right, lose sight of the goal of long-term happiness, they revert to a faulty definition of liberty, one which puts pure individual freedom before human dignity.
Canada must grapple with this evidence as the legalization of MAID for mental illness looms. But gender disparity in MAID is already a reality in Canada, particularly within track 2 which lacks effective safeguards to prevent patients with mental illness from using MAID as a means of suicide.
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