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Byline: DAVID JOHNSTON Independent special rapporteur on foreign interference and former governor-general of Canada Foreign governments are working in hostile and clandestine ways to undermine Canada's democratic institutions and attempting [...]

Byline: DAVID JOHNSTON Canada's 28th governor-general The world today is filled with both optimism and promise, but also deep-seated fragility and vulnerability. The challenges and risks of climate change are [...]

Byline: DAVID JOHNSTON Lead 28th governor-general of Canada and the current chair of the Rideau Hall Foundation, a charity that promotes learning, giving and innovation I t has been more [...]

Byline: DAVID JOHNSTON Lead Former governor-general of Canada One of the profound lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic is a stark recognition of our mutual vulnerability, and consequently of our mutual [...]

He was at the forefront of a tax-policy movement based on the ideas of Henry George, which helped spark the Progressive movement in the 19th century. As Mason Gaffney bicycled [...]

Byline: David Johnston CALVIN ATHEY / THE TEMPLE NEWS I can't stop listening to Roy Blair. He's one of my favorite artists now. This past summer, I saw the pop [...]

On June 14, the New York State attorney general, Barbara Underwood, filed a civil complaint against President Trump and his three oldest children, accusing them of ''persistently illegal conduct'' in [...]

Byline: DAVID JOHNSTON The best celebrations involve friends. I am reminded of this truth today. We are just a few days away from reaching an important milestone in our country's [...]

Byline: David Cay Johnston The Panama Papers show that billions of illicit dollars secretly flow through some of the largest banks licensed in America. But how can that be, considering [...]

Byline: David Cay Johnston There's a big story in the tax returns that Donald Trump claims he cannot release because of what he describes as a routine audit. The big [...]

Byline: David Cay Johnston Finally, President Obama has proposed a federal budget that hints at the optimistic promise of hope and change he rode to election victory in 2008. Still, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCongress has been tightening the rules on charitable gifts for more than a decade, and following those rules is critical to getting the maximum deduction for gifts. Below, in [...]

Byline: David Johnston In response to the results of the recent presidential election, students at Conn and many other colleges and universities across the nation have organized protests. While the [...]

Byline: David Johnston The result of the 2016 election has forced me, and I'm sure many others, to think about what it means to be a woman and feminist in [...]

Syracuse SINCE 1974, when the Justice Department sued to break up the Ma Bell phone monopoly, Americans have been told that competition in telecommunications would produce innovation, better service and [...]

WHEN Robert Hassler of Larchmont, N.Y., went to see a lawyer last fall about devising an estate plan, he received two pieces of unexpected advice: wait until Congress enacted changes [...]

Byline: OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Apr 22, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Since its inception over two decades ago, Earth Day has been adopted by countries around the world. Its message transcends [...]

A GROWING number of charities are persuading donors to create a little-known kind of endowment as the troubled economy and this year's hiatus from the estate tax create problems for [...]

In his suicide note, the computer software engineer who flew a small plane into a building with Internal Revenue Service offices in Texas on Thursday cited a 1986 tax law [...]

Q. I bought a rental house with tenants in January 2009. The tenants moved out in May 2009, and I then renovated it and sold it this month. Am I [...]

THIS is the year of tax uncertainty, and what might seem like temporary tax benefits could turn into tax traps. Retirement accounts, charitable gifts and taxes that older, high-income Americans [...]

Byline: David S. Johnston The collapsing housing market has prompted many political and financial leaders to make urgent pleas to aid those owners who are facing the loss of their [...]