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Apr 9 2023

Tax trouble. Crab costs. Apple insight.

Apr 9, 2023
David Akin's Roundup
Clippings of #cdnpoli, #media, and #tech content aimed at those with an interest in Canadian politics and policy. And sometimes Canadian postage stamps.
Canada

What could a tax worker strike mean for you? The Canada Revenue Agency says it will be 'transparent' about service impacts if the strike happens. [Global]
Canada's Parliamentary budget officer said he is troubled by what he describes as the selective use of facts from his new financial analysis of carbon pricing. 👇 [CP]
When both fiscal and economic impacts of the federal fuel charge are considered, we estimate that most households will see a net loss, paying more in fuel charges and GST, as well as receiving lower incomes, compared to the Climate Action Incentive payments they receive and lower personal income taxes they pay. [Parliamentary Budget Office]
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From the provinces
Danielle Smith changes story on controversial phone call with Pawlowski
Premier Danielle Smith said Saturday that she thought Pawlowski was calling to talk about political leadership. [Global]
Plant workers worry about impacts on jobs if season is delayed for weeks; SEA-NL proposes 'Pot-to-Plate' plan so customers can connect with harvesters.
Elsewhere

Secret documents that appear to detail American national security secrets on Ukraine, the Middle East and China have surfaced online. [NYT]

Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said Saturday that her center-right Reform Party has clinched a deal with two other parties to form a coalition government, five weeks after a general election in the Baltic country. [AP]

In 2021, there were 2,590 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18, up from 1,732 in 2019. [Pew Research Institute[
Media

The detention of the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich poses new obstacles for Western journalists seeking to report on Vladimir V. Putin’s rule. [NYT]
Mathew Ingram: As I explain here, I have no plans to pay for Twitter Blue, not just because I disagree with what Musk has done with Twitter, but because the entire purpose of verification has been subverted by this new system, making the checkmark effectively meaningless. [Columbia Journalism Review]
Tech
Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of Apple
In a frank conversation, the Apple CEO offers new insight into his leadership—and explains how he has refashioned the world’s most creative company (from its privacy policy to its Oscar-winning movies to what’s coming next) on his own exacting terms. [GQ]
Issued this day ...
Issued this day in 2001: Sc # 1901: Toronto Blue Jays. Design: Paul Haslip / Omar Morson.
Issued to mark the 25th anniversary of the Toronto’s MLB franchise. 

Remarkably, this was the first major league sports franchise to be featured on a Canadian stamp. Canada Post would not get around to a stamp featuring the most valuable sports franchise in the country — the Maple Leafs — for another dozen years, in 2013 (see Sc 2664) ! 

And while the Toronto Argonauts and all other CFL teams got their own stamps in 2012 (Sc 2559-2566), we’re still waiting for a Toronto Raptors stamp. Canada Post missed that franchise’s 25th anniversary in 2020 and missed a chance to put a stamp out when the Raptors won their one and only championship season in 2019.

But back to this Blue Jays stamp: Hard to make it out in this scan of my copy but the stamp had an irregular shape that followed the bird’s beak, the banner, and the baseball. 
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