Canadian money stashed in the top 12 global tax havens has topped $170-billion, according to data on foreign direct investment released Thursday by Statistics Canada. This amounts to a quarter of all Canadian money going abroad.

This figure is also equivalent to ten percent of Canada's $1.8-trillion GDP....

Canadian money in tax havens is at an all-time high -- $160 billion according to a 2011 estimate -- and growing. One of the main reasons rich Canadians and large corporations hide their money in tax havens is to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. How much...

The CBC released a huge leak of offshore financial information received by the Washington, D.C.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a non-profit group that has shared the records with CBC News and media outlets in 35 other countries. It is thought to be one of the biggest ever...

....much more needs to be done, especially on tax havens

The Tax Fairness message seems to be getting through. It was a key theme in the Federal Budget 2013. While we are pleased there were some promising first steps in closing some tax loopholes, we were disappointed there wasn't more...

The gap between rich and poor is growing in Canada and that threatens to make us all poorer, in health and quality of life, wherever you fall on the income scale. Studies have shown that unequal societies are more stressful and that this has a negative impact on the health...