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New carbon tax urged for motoring
TransportXtra
Motorists should pay an extra tax to cover the carbon dioxide emissions driving creates, according to a new report by the Prime Minister's special ...

ANALYSIS-Japan election tests opposition's green resolve
Reuters
The Democrats have called in the past for a carbon tax, but experts were disappointed that the party promised in its election manifesto only to consider the ...

NDP has reason for optimism
National Post
... employment insurance reform, credit card gouging, salvaging the auto sector, escaping Afghanistan and even attacking a carbon tax -- the New Democrats ...

Tax-backlash bandwagon
Vancouver Sun
Its recent mutation into a party of tax revolt (opposing both the carbon tax and the HST) simply panders to the view that taxes are always bad. financed ...

HST will push up utility costs for households
Vancouver Sun
... families via a personal income tax cut. They gave an income tax cut for this bogus carbon tax. They've brought now this HST with no compensating tax cut."

Climate change could heat up economy, create jobs
Calgary Herald
An international group of economists, including McGill University's Christopher Green, would scrap carbon markets in favour of a carbon tax to finance ...