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As corruption hits close to home, we must remember there are alternatives to deregulated corporate capitalism
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Christopher Majka
| December 20, 2016

In Canada we can pride ourselves at having anti-corruption legislation applicable both within Canada and to Canadian companies operating abroad (See the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act).

However, when it comes to bribery, graft, corruption and kickbacks there are many dark corners where shady dealing can hide. When it comes to corruption, no legislation has yet been devised that leaves no loopholes, and there are lawyers and accountants able to drive a freight train through the eye of such a needle.

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What's happened with the panama papers?
August 12, 2016 |
Canada's Revenue Minister promised to use the leaked documents to launch audits and go after possible tax cheats. So, has anything changed?
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Montreal garment firm exposed for tax avoidance and dubious labour practices
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Yves Engler
| June 27, 2016

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Twenty-first century Canadian corporate capitalism is quite the racket.

Built with public subsidies, a Montreal firm can shift its head office to a tax haven and its workforce abroad, but Ottawa will continue to use its diplomatic, economic and military might to advance the company's reactionary international interests.

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Despite tough talk, Trudeau shies away from tackling Bay Street's chronic tax avoidance

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Brian Mulroney will surely be best remembered for the suitcase full of thousand dollar bills he received in a New York hotel room.

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Panama Papers confirm Canada's tax system is in desperate need of repair
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Alex Hemingway
| May 10, 2016

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A string of revelations about tax avoidance have made headlines in recent months, from the Panama Papers and KPMG Canada's tax shelter business, to a local incident involving the resignation of a UBC Board member following a tax avoidance case lost in B.C. Supreme Court.

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The Panama Papers: Let's do what's right
May 9, 2016 |
Tax dodging at home is one thing, but what about Canadian and other western corporations who legally bilk the global south out of billions. Here are two things we could do right now to fix that.
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Canadian money flowing to tax havens at all time high
April 27, 2016 |
In the span of a single year, CAD $40 billion flowed to the top 10 tax havens –- an all-time high. Tax havens now hold at least $270 billion of Canadian corporate money, mostly untaxed.
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Not Rex: Panama Papers outrage can make fair taxes possible

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Inequality is so top-heavy it's teetering. Public debt levels are at the tipping point. And, the planet itself is unstable.

The world's richest continue to evade taxes by stashing millions in off-shore accounts. Will the revelations from the Panama Papers finally make the rich pay?

Let's hope it's the final pinch of outrage needed to flambé this upside-down cake.

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From Enron to the Panama Papers: How many financial scandals will it take to change the rules?

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The Panama Papers and the box of cookies: Tracking the technology behind the leak

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One of the most fascinating aspects of the Panama Papers investigation is the technology involved. The extent and the international complexity of the tax avoidance, tax evasion and money laundering would have been impossible without the electronic transfers, databases and encrypted communications available to contemporary financial institutions.

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