Slow progress on tax havens and offshore banking. We started following the issue more seriously in June 2013. In 2015 the CRA report about KPMG Canada sending its clients to offshore tax havens helped heighten awareness that we plebeians are footing the tax bills while the wealthy are doing their share, gorging themselves, enjoying the generosity of […]
Federal authorities demanded secrecy in no-penalty, no-prosecution deal to high net worth Canadians . . . IMPORTANT go to this CBC URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-revenue-kpmg-secret-amnesty-1.3479594 and listen to the mini-doc near the top. The story of two women the CRA went after is told, in sharp contrast to the “no-penalty, no-prosecution” confidential deals offered to the very […]
Follow-up on 2015-10-16 Texas Oil Tycoon T. Boone Pickens’ $700-Million NAFTA Lawsuit Against Ontario Nears End, NY Times & Huffington Post By John Miner, The London Free Press (Postmedia Network file photo) A lawsuit by a Texas oil tycoon that alleged political interference at the highest levels in the awarding of Ontario wind farm […]
ACTION on OFFSHORE BANKING? – – LEADNOW 2016-04-04 The Panama Papers: world reacts to huge offshore tax files leak, The Guardian. (With links to more)) Dear Sandra, We have a chance to turn public outrage about the Panama Papers into lasting changes that make sure the super-wealthy pay their fair share. Share the campaigning calling for […]
David posted a comment on my posting: There are two sides to the story. Why do we hear only one? Not only do I concur, Sandra, so does Christopher Hedges… Hey! I am in good company! Many thanks to David for directing us to the following: Short interview of Chris Hedges by the Real News thttp://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=15970 Chris […]
NOTE: Details, related postings, comments – – see 2016-04-04 The Panama Papers: world reacts to huge offshore tax files leak, The Guardian http://www.wired.com/2016/04/reporters-pulled-off-panama-papers-biggest-leak-whistleblower-history/ When Daniel Ellsberg photocopied and leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, those 7,000 pages of top secret Vietnam War documents represented what was then the biggest […]
Since the FBI vs Apple court case in California, FBI in other jurisdictions, criminal investigations, have aired the need for access to iPhones. For those stories, please use an internet search. FBI drops its case against Apple after getting into that iPhone http://www.wired.com/2016/03/fbi-drops-case-apple-finding-way-iphone/ by Kim Zetter After more than a month of a heated standoff […]
https://www.socialeurope.eu/2016/03/how-political-elites-have-failed-to-ensure-social-justice-across-generations/ Social Europe by Joseph Stiglitz on 17 March 2016 @JosephEStiglitz Joseph Stiglitz (CC Raimond Spekking) Something interesting has emerged in voting patterns on both sides of the Atlantic: Young people are voting in ways that are markedly different from their elders. A great divide appears to have opened up, based not so much […]
Hello Michelle (CBC Radio The Almanac), You asked: what is the context for the bombings in Brussels? The Context is an accumulation of “last month”s and “last year”s that extends back in time. Context has been created by people of the Middle East AND by Westerners. Human beings do not like it […]
Matthew asked whether Lockheed Martin has a role in the 2016 Census. Short answer: Yes – the clincher: Canada has obligations because of its partnerships with other nations on censuses, and Lockheed Martin is part of that collaboration. Lockheed Martin’s role is in “steerage”. Search on words “Lockheed Martin” on StatsCan website. There are expense claims […]