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The Tories Just Raised Tariffs On iPods: Economist

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.04.2013 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - A business professor has discovered that last month's federal budget contained a five-per-cent increase in the tariff on iPods, as well as tr...

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The Case Against Taxing Soda

David Gratzer | Posted 01.14.2013 | Canada Politics
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David Gratzer

The biggest target of obesity in North America? Soda. Many experts now claim that soda is the new tobacco -- indeed, Google those terms and you get more than 7 million hits. For them, Coke is the new Camel. Let me take a step back and note the basic problem in fighting obesity like we fought tobacco.

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