One could offset this change and still maintain the dividend / CG alignment by changing PIT rates. An 8 point PIT cut with a 60% inclusion would do it (lots of other combinations are possible).

Some potentially relevant global perspective on the capital tax change in Budget 2024. #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Johnson has really stepped up on Ukraine, and deserves credit for it. Let's hope he follows through.

Read this and you will begin to understand that some journalists are playing a significant role in accelerating the loss of the public’s trust in journalism reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2024/…

In recent months France has catalogued an intensified Russian campaign to sow division, discredit the country and test its army. It underlies Emmanuel Macron’s surprising transformation into one of Europe’s most hawkish voices econ.st/3vUjhfp 👇

2/ See some of the time stamps that DA identifies in new motion.⤵️

Monday 9:12 a.m.
Monday 10:26 a.m.
Tuesday 1:50 p.m.

To make these statements or have these statements made from within the courthouse would be to amplify the 'contempt' of and for the court.

Note the time stamps in DA's new motion alleging 7 more violations of gag order.

But first this nugget by Adam Klasfeld about alleged gag violation.

On Monday, prosecutor told the judge:

“It’s entirely possible it was done within this courthouse.”

justsecurity.org/daily-courtroo…

Federal minister Dominic LeBlanc says he supports PM, but doesn’t quash leadership organizing rumours theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

In my over 20 years practicing criminal law, I have never observed a defendant refuse to stand and face the jury.

Any competent lawyer would tell their client that his fate is in the jury’s hands and they will watch everything he does.

Trump’s disrespect for the jury is unwise.

This is bizarre. It also suggests Trump won't take his lawyers advice about the little things, which bodes poorly for him as we get to trial & larger things, like whether he'll testify, loom.

Middle-class Canadians could be hit by increases to capital gains tax. Here’s how to prepare theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…

'The political world mostly yawned.'

John Harwood concluded that the threat to democracy was real enough that journalism ought to view the political world through that lens. Read his debut column for Zeteo. zeteo.com/p/how-cancer-c…

He decided to call it The Stakes. 😎

'In the coming years, the [federal] government estimates that GST revenues won’t even fully cover its swelling public debt charges.'

Read the full story by Kiernan Green: thehub.ca/2024-04-18/for…

Ukraine cannot fight evil with empty hands on.ft.com/440DFYV

Space is ruled by the same principles as Law of the Sea — and we’ve seen how China has flouted that in the South China Sea. The scenario of landing and declaring that the moon is theirs is a very real one.