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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 19h

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 17h

Ever feel like tax loopholes, wealth inheritance and flat wages worsen our top-heavy system, making it harder and harder for ordinary Canadians to get ahead?

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! Someone's cranky!

While we appreciate the free press from Terence, let's see if we can improve his mood point by point.

financialpost.com/opinion/tere...

Terence Corcoran: Help! I’m rich, so tax me more. Pretty please…

Here’s a message for socialist millionaires: send in the money voluntarily, or shut up. Read more from Terence Corcoran

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 1d

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 1d

What does it really mean to “take ownership?”

We talked to some Taproot employees to hear what it means to them to work for an employee-owned company.

Spoiler alert: lots of pride and rewards.

👉 Read their inspiring story: socialcapitalpartners.ca/what-being-a...

#EOT #CdnPoli #OwnershipMatters

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 2d

Canada’s wealth gap is way worse than official data show.

The PBO just confirmed the top 1% own nearly 25% of all wealth—which StatsCan missed because it doesn’t even count the richest families in its surveys.

🔗 Read more: socialcapitalpartners.ca/wealth-inequ...

#CdnPoli #BillionaireBlindspot

Wealth inequality in Canada is far worse than StatsCan reports

Our government’s best available data on Canada’s wealth gap excludes, by design, the wealthiest families in the country. As SCP Director of Policy Dan Skilleter writes, if we didn’t have the Parliamen...

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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 4d

Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, Canada's future is less secure than perhaps at any time in postwar history

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?

Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 7d

🚨New video🚨

As Canadians, we like to think we’re strong and free. But, when it comes to the wealth gap, we’re looking more like America Lite—better manners, but almost all the inequality.

#CdnPoli #CanadaSky #Wealth #EconSky

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Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 9d

In Canada, top 1% of wealth holders hold 24% of total wealth.
Meanwhile, PM Carney has an ‘austerity budget’, which will impact the disadvantaged.
Patriotic Millionaires Canada, which I am a board member of, estimated that a 3% tax on wealth over $100-million could raise $25-billion annually.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 9d

“While working Canadians are paying higher rates than their ultra-wealthy fellow citizens... the government is currently considering a so-called austerity budget that is almost certain to make these problems worse.” - @sabivm.bsky.social and Hon. Ratna Omidvar

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Canada's exploding wealth inequality requires tax changes

Our current tax code is not asking the wealthy to reinvest in our economy, and that failure is weakening services and programs working Canadians may use to get ahead.

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GBH @wgbh.org · 9d

Congress told us to “Go Fund Yourself.”
And with your help, we can.

Our federal funding might be gone, but we’re still here. Public media needs your support now more than ever.

A sleek GBH-branded graphic composed of deep blues and purples is displayed on the GBH mural. It reads "Congress told us to 'Go Fund Yourself.' And with your help, we can."

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 10d

The Social Capital Partners offices are closed today for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also called #OrangeShirtDay.

Today we encourage reflection on the tragic and painful legacy of residential schools.

We thank 6th-grader Albertan Sloane Campbell for her beautiful design.

#NTDR

This design was created for Orange Shirt Day by Sloane Cameron, a Grade 6 student from Innisfail, Alberta. Her design showcases a tree, a heart, and children. The tree to represent nature and the heart to symbolize that every child matters and is equally important. The children in the design are holding feathers as an Indigenous representation; however, she drew them without faces so that they have no expression and can represent any child.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 14d

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 14d

The Parkland (🍁) sale to Sunoco (🗽) offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty.

Ottawa should say no.

Read Sarah Doyle and @jonshell.bsky.social in Policy Options.

#FDI #OwnershipMatters #AlwaysCanada #Never51

policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/suno...

Canada should reject Sunoco’s US$9-billion takeover of Parkland

The Parkland sale to Sunoco offers little benefit to Canada while risking jobs, innovation and sovereignty. Ottawa should say no.

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Diane Swonk @dianeswonk.bsky.social · 15d

Why do economists care about inequality in incomes and wealth?

1) Inequality tends to dampen overall economic performance. One of most immediacy effects is on consumer spending. Low-and middle-income households spend a larger percentage of each dollar that they earn when more spending is in…

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 16d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 16d

🚨New article🚨

With fixes to fragmented financing and outdated regulatory frameworks, #YourBudget2025 could make it easier for social finance investments to properly scale and deliver the kind of outsized impact Canada needs at this time.

Let's not leave $ on the table.

#CommunityFinance #CdnPoli

The federal government is leaving investment dollars on the table—but it can fix that in the budget

At the recent Victoria Forum, community and philanthropic leaders outlined creative community finance and impact investment ideas that could mobilize big pools of private capital to invest in local bu...

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 17d

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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 18d

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 18d

🚨New explainer🚨

Levels of Foreign Direct Investment don't actually tell us much about the state of the economy.

@iipp-ucl.bsky.social's Sarah Doyle and @jonshell.bsky.social unpack what FDI is, when it is and isn’t beneficial and why these nuances matters.

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 23d

More evidence that #OwnershipMatters when growing a resilient, sovereign Canadian economy.

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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 23d

Elbows up needs to include digital sovereignty. Those who want to do harm to Canadians should not own our digital, data and cloud infrastructure.

We can't have sovereignty under these circumstances.

theijf.org/american-fir...

American firms own nearly a third of Canada’s data centres

Experts warn that reliance on foreign-owned data centres poses risks for sovereignty.

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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 25d

What a treat to spend a day in Ottawa with 40 progressive economists and thought leaders to imagine a more robust nation-building economic strategy, at the ‘Elbows Up Economic Summit’: policyalternatives.ca/news-researc.... #cdnecon /2

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