News of the day: Ottawa covers steel shipping costs, banks sell Moneris, mismatched tax rules, enforcing employment contracts, credit crisis and more

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A Canadian flag flies above the steel mills in Hamilton, Ont. A new federal program will subsidize shipping Canadian steel within the country.A Canadian flag flies above the steel mills in Hamilton, Ont. A new federal program will subsidize shipping Canadian steel within the country. Photo by Peter Power/Postmedia News

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Under a new Commodities Sectoral Support Program announced on Monday, steel shippers can apply for a rebate that will offset 50 per cent of the costs to ship domestic steel by rail or marine transport across provinces and territories.

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Moneris Moneris Solutions Corp., a payment processing company, was created as a joint venture between Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal in 2000. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

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Once the sale of Moneris Solutions Corp., a company that helps businesses accept card and digital payments is completed, Royal Bank of Canada expects to earn about $475 million after tax, while Bank of Montreal will gain approximately $600 million. Neither bank expects the sale to have a significant impact on future earnings.

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A closeup of the feet of a man, resting on a table, with mismatched socks The tax on split income is not a principled tax policy; it’s a sock drawer nobody’s checked in decades. Photo by Vesnaandjic/Getty Images

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The Income Tax Act has many pairs of mismatched socks. Legislators are often more comfortable with a provision’s politics than with how it clashes with the rest of the act or with the unintended consequences that follow, writes Kim Moody.

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The real point of contention is not whether an employer can terminate, but how much it must pay. The real point of contention is not whether an employer can terminate, but how much it must pay. Photo by Adobe Stock

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Workers are protected by enforcing the law, not by pretending words have meanings that neither party intended, write Howard Levitt and Puneet Tiwari.

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bills Bankruptcy filings in Canada in each of the past two quarters topped 2009 levels. Photo by Getty Images

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Even with the recent glow from the employment numbers, 37,523 Canadian consumers filed for insolvency in the second quarter, up nearly seven per cent from a year ago and the highest for any quarter since the tail end of the Great Recession in 2009.

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