This year, Tax Freedom Day is Monday, June 19. If you had to pay all your federal, provincial and municipal taxes up front, you would give government every dollar you earned from January 1st to Tax Freedom Day, when Canadians finally start working for themselves. In 2023, the average Canadian family (with two or more people) will pay 46.1 per cent of its annual income in taxes, including income taxes, payroll taxes, health taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, fuel taxes, carbon taxes and more.

Analysis of Changes in Median Employment Income in Canada’s Census Metropolitan Areas, 2008-2019 is a new study that ranks Canada's 41 major cities by their rate of growth in median employment income, using data from 2008 to 2019. The median employment income growth, in inflation adjusted dollars, for all of Canada was 5.4 percent.

Repeating the Past: Provinces Accept Federal Money at Their Peril draws on the experience of Canada in the 1990s, when the federal government reformed and reduced transfers to the provinces to tackle the federal deficit and mounting debt—and how that comparison can be used to inform the decisions of policymakers today.