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Montreal garment firm exposed for tax avoidance and dubious labour practices

| 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.

Why does a Canadian company pay its taxes to Switzerland?

June 10, 2016 |

Cameco is a multi-billion dollar Canadian company. They mine Canadian uranium. But they only pay 10% corporate taxes in Zug, Switzerland. Sign the petition and demand Cameco pay up.

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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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Help! My landlord is a tax dodger: Awkward times at the CRA

May 19, 2016 |

It turns out the CRA pays rent to a serial tax haven user for offices in Edmonton, Montreal and Calgary. Larco Investments hates taxes but loves the $74.3 million it gets from the feds in rent.

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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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Canada Revenue targeted progressive non-profits while wealthy tax dodgers get free pass

J. Baglow

| March 9, 2016

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This is a story about two rules of law: one for the rich and one for the rest of us. It's about a corrupt, politicized agency that is morally little better than the scammers who phone you around tax time and demand money with menaces.