The Memorandum of Understanding signed by Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney last week is continuing to garner attention from all sides. The deal has its critics and its supporters. One group speaking Read More
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation will be taking the federal government to court. The challenge is meant to uncover any hidden costs from the gun buyback program, officially known as the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program. The Read More
Tired of paying high taxes, and seeing a lack of accountability in our politicians? Let’s take a look at some of the latest news in these areas, with Kris Sims. She is a journalist Read More
A new Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, shows that 45% of Canadians, or 54% of those among decided respondents, want the federal government to decrease spending. Federal Director, Franco Terrazzano, says Mark Carney is Read More
Right now, if you sell your home in Canada, the profit from that sale is exempt from capital gains tax. But even though it’s exempt…you still must report it to the Canada Revenue Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling on federal party leaders to stop a pair of policies that will take effect on Tuesday. On April the first, MPs, cabinet members and the prime minister are Read More
Kris Sims, Alberta Director with the Canadian Taxpayers Federations spoke with BCN’s Jeannette Rocher and says that Mark Carney’s is hiding a new carbon pricing plan.Read More
Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says that Mark Carney must clarify what his Carbon pricing plan would mean for Canadians, highlighting that it could be just another carbon tax renamed as an incentive.Read More
On April 1, the Liberal government is raising the carbon tax. After the increase, the carbon tax will cost 21 cents per litre of gasoline and 25 cents per litre of diesel. Could the Liberal Party’s attitude Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is holding Alberta government officials’ feet to the fire since the province promised to reduce the income tax bracket from 10 to eight per cent in the new year. The UCP said Read More
It turns out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s four–day trip to Europe in June cost taxpayers close to a million dollars. Trudeau and his entourage travelled to Italy and Switzerland June 13-16 to attend Read More
Just a couple of years after the Trudeau government used 9 million dollars to help build the world’s largest edible cricket factory in London Ontario comes word that two thirds of its workforce will be Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says spending by the federal government is out of control. The group is calling on Ottawa to cut spending following a report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer. The study by Yves Read More
The Parliamentary Budget Officer says his updated report on the federal carbon tax is consistent with his earlier findings. Yves Giroux says once broader economic effects are factored in, the gains from the rebate cheques Read More
A recent Leger Poll says 70 per cent of Canadians support removing the carbon tax from all home heating fuels. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on premiers in our country to join in a carbon Read More
It is official. The national debt has now doubled under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation it took around 24 prime ministers 150 years to rack up a 616–billion–dollar Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is raising the alarm over 2.7 million dollars that was spent by the federal government on high profile international film and music festivals. Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the CTF, joined us Read More
It is back to school time and for many parents it can be a stressful time. So much money needed for back-to-school supplies and clothes for the kids. When it comes to opening our wallets, Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is speaking out against the online harms bill saying it is soaking taxpayers and is further ballooning bureaucracy. And…an open letter signed by 16 public interest groups also warns that the Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is angry over the $3-million tab the federal government is leaving taxpayers. As the group’s federal director, Franco Terrazzano explains to BCN’s Hal Roberts, it stems from the COP28 Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has filed a complaint with the Office of the Information Commissioner after the CBC allegedly refused to disclose 2023 bonuses for eight senior executives until days after its president Catherine Tait is Read More
The Trudeau government wants to pass legislation moving the date of our next federal election. Instead of October 20th, 2025 it would be October 27th or a week later. Some say the reason is that by Read More
The federal carbon tax is set to go up by 23 per cent on April 1st. The federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Franco Terrazzano, explained to BCN’s Hal Roberts how much more it Read More
When April 1st rolls around motorists in Alberta will be hit with a double whammy. The remainder of the provincial fuel tax is scheduled to come back which is another four cents a litre PLUS Read More
A new poll by Leger says the majority of Canadians are dead set against the federal government’s carbon tax increase which is coming up April 1st. To discuss this in more detail is the Read More
The Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation was a little disappointed in the recently tabled Alberta budget. As Kris Sims explains it could have offered so much more for Albertans.Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the Alberta government to strengthen the Taxpayer Protection Act to shield Albertans from a future provincial carbon tax. To discuss this in more detail is the Alberta director Read More
When we think of New Year’s Resolutions we often time think of getting in shape and losing weight. How about losing more taxes? Well, it appears as though the opposite may be true for 2024. Read More
Many of us remember watching the coronation of King Charles following the passing of his mom Queen Elizabeth. All of the pomp and ceremony. There were a number of Canadian delegates who attended on the Read More
