Straight Goods uses the power of the Internet to help Canadians inform one another. Straight Goods promotes citizen journalism , linking Canadians from every community. We help Canadians analyze the systems that cost them money and affect their lives. In some ways that may be true. But as a person with family and friends in many provinces and states on both sides of the border, it always seems when I travel in the States that prices are the same or higher, that wages for most working people are the same or lower.
Taxes vary more from place to place and country to country.
And again, they don't seem all that different for ordinary families - although some readers already report important differences. Blair Hamren, of Ste. Anne, Manitoba, for instance, writes that generous child tax credits and other benefits directed toward low-income families were a huge boon to a family with nine children. I can tell you from personal experience that it is FAR cheaper to live in the U.S. in my case. Straight Goods columnist Richard Shillington would agree completely.