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New research out today showing the collapse of Canada's development assistance as featured in the @ottawacitizen.com this morning 🧵👇👇 @policyalternatives.ca ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Cuts at Global Affairs Canada marks an 'end of Pearson's dream,' report says

Budget cuts at GAC could "shift Canada's foreign policy focus away from peacekeeping and development to self-interested trade and defence."

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Hey it's Friday and the Canadian oil industry made $1.5 billion in profits this week. 🧵 Thread...

Today we're revealing the cuts plans for our immigration system from Budget 2025. TLDR: These aren't efficiency savings they are major services cuts and cost downloads to cities poised to wreck our immigration system. @policyalternatives.ca 1/x

Corporate profits hit a new all time high of $676 bil in 2025, besting the previous 2022 record www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo... @policyalternatives.ca

Today we uncovered that just under half of the budget 2025 cuts at Dept immigration, refugees and citizenship are just cuts to dental and prescription coverage for asylum seekers. Read about it in the @ottawacitizen.com or the full @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Great article in the @theglobeandmail.com this morning that I'm quoted in. It's looking at the self-inflicted job losses in Ottawa www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... @policyalternatives.ca @jasonkirby.bsky.social

Today I'm appearing before the Senate committee on finance about the upper income tax cut that the middle class happens to see a small benefit from. Here is my full analysis www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... @policyalternatives.ca

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My preliminary take on the new stats on federal job job cuts . Which depts and services could be hit hardest? There's plenty more analysis to come @policyalternatives.ca

New research out today from @policyalternatives.ca on the groceries and essential benefit. Read the full details at www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Interesting to see that HALF of all econo activity in Canada is just gvts providing: health care, education, infrastructure, pensions. The other half is the private sector selling things. Cuts to govts are cuts to GDP growth...shocking ;) @policyalternatives.ca www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

Some great coverage on my latest analysis of what programs may be lost due to the 15% fed program cuts in the @ottawacitizen.com : ottawacitizen.com/public-servi... @policyalternatives.ca

Social programs could be 'sunset' along with jobs of public servants who administer them: analysis

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives estimates that 52 of 88 departments and agencies will "sunset" programs.

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Budgets are meant to be good news docs. This one will downplay all that will be lost with 15% cuts in most depts. We've scoured dept docs to identify programs likely to be "sunset" and the 52 depts likely to use this strategy @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇

Canada’s $10-a-day child care program is cutting fees—but is it creating enough spaces? My new report from @policyalternatives.ca shows big promises, mixed results, and a growing role for for-profit care. Here’s what the data tells us🧵👇👇👇

Now calculated potential staffing cuts from the fed public sector cuts announced in July. TLDR, they'll be big, probably over 57,000 by 2028-29. I got some good coverage in the @ottawacitizen.com but here are the brief details🧵👇👇 @policyalternatives.ca ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

Ottawa and Gatineau will 'bear the brunt' of public service cuts: report

A new analysis finds the government could cut the equivalent of more than 24,000 full-time jobs in the National Capital Region.

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My latest look at the Carney cuts in the @thestar.com, but this time it impacts crown corps like the CBC, Via Rail and CMHC. These could all see their transfers cut by 15% Priorities in the campaign but now targets for cuts @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

So much for ‘Canada strong’: Mark Carney’s cuts to the public service are a brutal trade-off

The Liberals are pondering cuts so deep, they’ll outdo the Harper government and rival Paul Martin.

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The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

For the record, I meant it as a cautionary tale not a manual! But it looks like my big projections of federal cuts are coming .... worth 15% of spending. @policyalternatives.ca theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... 1/x

Cabinet ministers told to find ‘ambitious’ savings by end of summer

Ministers have been asked to cut 7.5 per cent from program spending next year, growing to 15 per cent by 2028-29

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In the 2025 federal election, LPC platform promised $13 bil/yr in "government efficiencies" through AI and capping growth but no one kicked the tires on this one. These cuts would be devastating if implemented @policyalternatives.ca PA 🧵👇👇

The main party platforms are finally out and to easily understand them I created a wordcloud with all party planks weighted by their 4yr $$ value: bigger font = worth more, smaller font=worth less. See if the parties put their money where their mouths are ⬇️⬇️⬇️🧵 @policyalternatives.ca

Platform Crunch: What are the parties promising in their costed platforms? - CCPA

It’s the final week of the federal election campaign, and most parties have finally released their full platforms with costs. First of all, kudos to the Liberals, NDP and Conservatives for actually pu...

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You want more #election platform crunching? We’ve got more! V3.0 has CPC, Liberal, NDP, Green & Bloc platforms. 1st up, how much you’d save from personal tax cuts and/or get in cash transfers in $$ on average per filer by income deciles @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇 www.datawrapper.de/_/relj9/

What is the average cash benefit (saved taxes or higher transfers)? Apr 2nd | Created with Datawrapper

Depending on what you make before taxes, the party platforms could impact you very differently in saved taxes or in increased cash transfers

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New from @policyalternatives.ca: How the parties’ tax cut and cash transfers promises compare. By @davidmaccdn.bsky.social #cdnpoli #federalelection www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Platform Crunch: Comparing all parties’ tax cut and cash transfers promises - CCPA

Earlier in the week, the Liberals came out with a promise to cut the lowest federal personal income tax rate from 15 per cent to 14 per cent and also cut the value of tax credits to match.

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Tax and cash transfer promises are flying fast and furious in this federal #election. I’ve been modelling them all and here are the average impacts for NDP, CPC and Liberals by deciles of pre-tax income. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇 for by program and poverty amounts.

Both the Liberals and Conservatives have pledged changing the rate of the lowest federal tax bracket from 15% to 14% (Liberal) or 12.75% (Conservative). I'll be doing a deep dive later, but here are the preliminaries on these almost identical #election policies @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇

Canadians are experiencing serious news deprivation as local news outlets are closing at an accelerated rate. Our latest report examines 2,900 radio, TV, print and online outlets for the trends in your province and community. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇

News deprivation - CCPA

The last 16 years have not been kind to local news outlets in Canada. Now 2.5 million Canadians don’t have access to local news. That’s a problem for our democracy.

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The point of Cdn #tariff actions should be to make it hurt, but only south of the border. The goal should be to have Americans notice they are in a tariff war and that its serious so the US tariffs stop, and quickly. Some action can decrease our prices in this #tariff war @ccpa 🧵👇...

Everyone remember #CERB during the pandemic? With American #tariffs we're going to need worker supports like that all over again, they should start today for affected industries and they need to include... @policyalternatives.ca 🧵