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Phil Froats
For the second time this year, Canadian Business Magazine has issued our proprietary ranking of 30 OECD countries. The ranking examined 49 individual indicators for each country and grouped these into 12 categories. This year, Canada's ranking increased by four positions to 7th place, a greater rise than any other ...
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According to the websites for Chartered Accountants (CA), Certified General Accountants (CGA) and Certified Management Accountants (CMA), there are appoximately 200,000 people in Canada who hold or are working toward their professional designations. Payscale.com reveals that the median salary for accountants with 10 to 19 years of experience is $89,100 ...
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Last year the 60 CEOs of Canada's largest companies were paid $647,133,700 or an average of $10,785,600. That's over $200,000 per week and up 41% from the amounts paid in 2006. Almost half of this was profits realized from the exercise of company options. Compensation ranged from $550,000 per ...
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So your son or daughter just got accepted to university and you may now have the challenges of paying for at least four years of their education. If you'd opened an RESP with $1,000 at the end of 1990 and purchased a single stock, there are a few companies that ...
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The current edition of Canadian Business magazine features details on the CEOs of Canada’s 50 largest companies by revenue according to the 2008 CB Investor 500. The 54 gentlemen (no women) on the list shared 39 given names.
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The amount of money the federal government spends on you for culture seems to depend on where you live. A total of $3.5 billion or $114 per Canadian was spent in fiscal 2004 on cultural activities such as libraries, heritage, broadcasting, arts and film. Almost half of this was broadcasting, ...
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I once heard a speaker say he started to enjoy his vacation 10 minutes after it was over. He was so worried about things going wrong while away that only after vacation, and back on his home turf, could he look at it and think he had a really good ...
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What would happen if all provinces received transfer payments at the same per capita level as Nunavit? What if all provinces received these amounts at the national per capita average? Well, payments to all Canadians at the Nunavit level would total 84% of national GDP and almost 2.5 times all ...
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The current edition of Canadian Business Magazine has a feature titled “The Power of Innovation” with a ranking showing that we are number 7 out of 25 in 2007 when compared to the world’s largest economies. (See rankings at www.canadianbusiness.com/countryrankings). This remains unchanged from 2006. So how much money has ...
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What could you do with $11,000? That’s the 10-year cost per Canadian taxpayer of corporate subsidies according to a paper titled “Corporate Welfare: A $144 Billion Addiction”, authored by Mike Milke and published by the Fraser Institute last fall. It nicely covers how the three levels of government have distributed ...
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