Many households, especially those at the bottom of the income distribution, receive government transfer payments.
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The bulk of current contributions fund the benefits to current retirees.
Average rents grew by 2.5 per cent, amounting to about $30 more per month.
Lithium-ion batteries are manufactured in some of the world’s worst-polluting countries.
The province has a rental vacancy rate of 1.4 per cent.
Unemployment is lower than it’s been in at least 42 years.
Alberta has run nearly uninterrupted deficits since 2008/09.
Sale prices in the Greater Toronto Area at the end of 2016 were almost 110 per cent higher than a decade prior.
B.C. spent $11,216 per student annually on public schools compared to $13,115 in Alberta.
If Canadians were free to import from the U.S. without paying tariffs, a frozen turkey would cost 15 per cent less.
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