🧵: A new @futureofprivacy.bsky.social report puts a spotlight on surveillance pricing and how corporations are using your personal data to determine the max you’ll pay for something and charge you exactly that.

The Price is Right: Responsible Uses of Personal Data in Pricing – Future of Privacy Forum

This resource provides an overview of how data is used to inform pricing; contextualizes data-driven pricing in existing U.S. law, enforcement activity, and emerging legislation; and recommends a numb...

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Don’t buy Big Oil’s lies 💸 The only way Canadians will benefit from the oil price shock is if we tax the fossil fuel industry’s excess profits and use those billions to help everyday people. #cdnpoli #canada #gasprices

Between 2019 and 2024, only 11.5% of outstanding business loans in Canada went to SMEs. Across the OECD, the average was 44%. A new report by @michellearnold.bsky.social argues that this is not a reflection of the limits of our entrepreneurs, but the limits of our lenders. Read the report 👇

Built to Exclude: Why Canada’s enterprises need a different kind of financing

Canada's enterprise financing system is dominated by big banks that control 93% of banking assets and nearly 80% of SME lending. While stable and respected, these banks have structural constraints—min...

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With more than 75% of small business owners planning to exit over the next decade and $2 trillion in assets at stake, it’s a change that could give more employees a stake in their workplace and keep businesses under Canadian ownership. Read the article 👇 #OwnershipMatters #EOTs #CdnPoli

An under-the-radar tax change could see more employees become owners in their workplace

Business owners who sell their companies to Employee-Owned Trusts will benefit from a juicy incentive that's now a permanent part of the tax code.

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The Canadian Tax Observatory says about 84% of the 8 million people living with disabilities have not been able to qualify for the #DisabilityTaxCredit. Disability advocates have been pushing to make the qualification process easier. 📰 Read the article: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Changes to disability tax credit broadly welcomed by opposition, advocates | CBC News

The Liberal government's plan to make it easier for Canadians living with disabilities to apply for the disability tax credit is being welcomed by the opposition and advocates who say the proposed cha...

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Come for the finance, stay for the fireworks. Come for the fireworks, stay for the finance. Sign up to the Social Capital Partners eNews! Read it: mailchi.mp/baf84e5ffe21... Subscribe: socialcapitalpartners.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

To build real resilience, Canada can’t just worry about who we do business with. We must rethink who owns the economy. Not consolidated among multinationals, and vest-wearing asset managers, but spread among employees. #CdnPoli Read the article (gift link!) www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

🎉Big news for small biz🎉 The federal gov is making the Employee Ownership Trust tax exemption PERMANENT! Business owners can now sell to their employees and get up to $10M in capital gains exempted. No more uncertainty. Plan with confidence! #SmallBusiness #EOTs #OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli

Tax break to help business owners sell to employees to be made permanent

Program could help thousands of small-business owners as they think about retirement

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What happens if you don't tax really rich people

In Tuesday's Government of Canada spring economic update, @mark-carney.bsky.social says that Employment Ownership Trusts (EOTs) “empower Canadian workers to buy into their businesses.” It's great news for workers, communities and the broader economy. #OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli #CdnEcon #EOTJoy

7 ways the spring economic update will affect your wallet - National | Globalnews.ca

The spring economic update includes a number of new measures intended to lower costs for Canadians that will also affect personal finances, mortgage rules and banking.

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Among measures our social sector should know about: The tax incentive designed to support more companies in transitioning into Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) is being made permanent, reports @futureofgood.bsky.social "Employee ownership is a perfect fit for our times." #EOTs #CdnPoli

Explainer: What the social sector should know about Carney’s Spring Economic Update – Future of Good

A tax incentive designed to support more companies in transitioning into Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) is being made permanent, as per the Spring Economic Update.

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Today, @mark-carney.bsky.social made the employee ownership tax incentive permanent! For business owners, this means certainty. For workers, this means opportunity. For communities, this means businesses stay locally owned. We are overjoyed and grateful! #OwnershipMatters #CdnPoli #EOTs

We just released our first Spring Economic Update. It outlines our country’s strong fiscal position and introduces new measures to ensure that all Canadians can participate in building Canada strong, and share in its success.

Great work from @gillianpetit.bsky.social and @hscoffield.bsky.social www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Ottawa's 'broken links' keeps majority of Canadians living with a disability out of luck on tax credit

About 8 million Canadians live with a disability — and often in poverty — writes Heather Scoffield, and yet only 16 per cent qualify for the disability tax credit, an

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OMERS committed $10B more to Canadian investments, which is good news. But our pension funds have been pulling back from Canada for 20 years. With real threats to our economic sovereignty on the table, that has to change fundamentally. Our take on what it will actually take 👇 #CdnPoli #Maple8

Are Canadian pension funds stepping up for Canada at this moment of threat? All signs point to maybe

Large Canadian pension plan OMERS announced earlier this week that it will attempt to increase its investments in Canada by $10B over the next five years. This is a good sign, says SCP CEO Matthew Men...

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Using our data from wid.world, @lemonde.fr shows where members of the Lecornu government sit in France’s income and wealth distribution. Almost all are in the top 10% for income and wealth, a reminder of how political representation maps onto inequality. ⬇️ www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege

The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

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The Cdn Tax Observatory and @gillianpetit.bsky.social did a deep dive into the #DisabilityTaxCredit. It’s supposed to be a gateway to 13+ income support programs but 84% of people w disabilities don’t qualify. Many of them are living below the poverty line. 👇Read more #Disability #CdnPoli

Canada's Disability Tax Credit stymies 84% of those it’s meant to help | The Canadian Tax Observatory

A new report authored by Dr. Gillian Petit takes a detailed look at the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) and its role in channeling support for those who need it most.

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The latest on pension tensions, Artemis II "competency porn" and turbocharging the Bank of Mom and Dad, all in one funny-but-factual biweekly read. Read our newsletter: mailchi.mp/e4fe794e2647... Subscribe: socialcapitalpartners.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=... #CdnPoli #ArtemisII

The First Home Savings Account was sold as a program to help aspiring homeowners locked out of the housing market. But according to new #s from the Cdn Tax Observatory, it's turning into a program that benefits those who need it least. Read the report: canadiantaxobservatory.ca/biggest-fhsa...

“You don’t have to invest in Palantir. You don’t have to invest in Elon Musk.” — @mendelmatt.bsky.social (@scpartners.bsky.social) tells @jeyantvo.bsky.social pension funds can earn strong returns without undermining Canada’s future. At 8pm with Keith Ambachtsheer | Producer: Mike Attenborough

If you've felt like the economy is doing fine for some people and really not fine for others, you’re right. We’re living in a K-shaped economy, in which the well-off are thriving and everyone else is grinding it out. 📰 Read the piece 👇 #CdnPoli #WealthInequality #KShapedEconomy

A small group of Canadians are living it up. The rest of us are struggling. Welcome to the K-shaped economy | The Canadian Tax Observatory

Since the pandemic ended, life for the wealthy has been a joyride. Life for the rest of us has, more often than not, been a grind.

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Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.

The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭

💔 #CdnPoli #GroceryPrices #FoodInsecurity #WorkingPeople #WealthInequality

Policing the grocery store checkout won’t fix Canada’s food retail crisis

Expanding surveillance in supermarkets may deter theft, but it does little to address the structural causes of food insecurity and rising grocery prices.

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Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives. The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Trickle-down economics is a hoax.

Extreme wealth inequality undermines economic resilience and social stability, and we’re here to change that. It’s the natural next step in our mission to build an economy where more people are owners and have agency over their economic future. What we believe:

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

The latest on apocalyptic mindfulness, gambling on everything and the K-Shaped Economy all in one funny-but-factual biweekly read. Read the Social Capital Partners newsletter: mailchi.mp/195ad68d7dba... #SignUp #CdnPoli #WealthInequality #Ownership

Canada's non-market housing sector is half the size it should be, and part of the reason is a set of obscure rules quietly blocking NFPs from using their own assets. 👇 Our new paper lays out the problem and, crucially, the fixes! They're relatively simple, low-cost and within reach. #CdnPoli

Unlocking non-profit assets: The low-cost fixes Canada's housing sector desperately needs

Growing the non-market housing sector is a national priority and building the capacity of non-profits to deliver more of it is one of the most important levers available. Unfortunately, explain Michel...

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