This must be a terrible time to be a bookkeeper, accountant, or tax prep person. Especially in the prairies. I’ve heard horror stories from our auditor at work of people showing up on their doorstep with a couple of ExMas orange boxes and a garbage bag full of “receipts”, handing
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Maanvi Singh reports on the corporate purchase of water rights in Arizona which signals the diversion of the necessities of life to the highest bidder once greed and mismanagement have undermined their availability. – Drew Anderson writes about the similar water crisis
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 18, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: CRA paid out $37M to tax scammers, unsealed affidavit alleges #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews https://tinyurl.com/bdhk5fbf – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Perhaps They’ll Ease Their Pain With A Free Cup Of Coffee?
Well, Tim Horton’s has done it again – disappointed their customers. Of course, that’s nothing new, but I’m not referring here to the mediocre coffee that is inexplicably a national icon. Nor am I referencing their disturbing and bizarre forays into food innovations they have no business experimenting with. There
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: How important is it to have a Last Will if you are in your 30s?
Having a Last Will is still important, even if you are young. There is no better way to provide for your family and your future. You can create a Last Will to plan ahead for a time when you have increased assets or a larger family. Now is always a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Nova Scotia Medical Professionals Deny Evidence Based Medicine.
This isn’t going to go well for them. Link to the BMJ article.
Continue readingCathie from Canada: "Protect the rich" is NOT going to catch on
Yeah, lots of financial press whining in the last 2 weeks about how raising taxes on the rich or on corporations would be so unfair & so awful — but “protect the rich!” just isn’t going to cut it as a #BaloneyFactory slogan. — Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️🌈 🇺🇦
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Manufactured ignorance
Many readers of IN-SIGHTS examine public issues with great care and email private comments to me along with links to worthwhile material. What follows comes from a paper sent to me by a long-time follower North Van’s Grumps, fellow blogger at Blog Borg Collective. The complete paper shown below is
Continue readingViews from the Beltline: Budget ’24
Now about my tax dollars. Finance Minister Freeland tabled her 2024 budget Tuesday and, by and large, I approve. The signs are about right: the NDP non-committal and the Conservatives screaming. Some random thoughts on bits that caught my attention: A hefty slice for housing—$8.5 billion in new spending—is much
Continue readingIN-SIGHTS: Douglas, Lewis, Broadbent, and Layton spinning in their graves?
This item, contributed by a reader, comments upon BC Hydro now offering a ten to fifteen billion dollar commitment to private power producers. This continues Gordon Campbell’s aim of twenty years ago: PRIVATIZATION BY STEALTH.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: 10 reasons to be optimistic
It’s easy to get depressed these days. Whether you are Jewish or not, we live in a depressing, difficult time. Tuesday night‘s outrage was yet more of the same: foul-mouthed Hamasniks blocking a major road and railway crossing in Toronto’s West end – pushing at police officers and likening them
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jenna Wenkoff discusses how “ethical oil” is purely a (risible) marketing concept rather than any meaningful description of actual fossil fuel operations, while Chris Russell discusses how the tar sands’ environmental disinformation is even worse than people assume. Ian Urquhart writes that the
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Legal Tweet of the Day: April 17, 2024
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Proposed class-action lawsuit against Shoppers Drug Mart alleges ‘unsafe and unethical corporate practices’ #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CTVNews https://tinyurl.com/yz84a4k3 – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: In The Gutter
Craig Wallace writes that you can’t run a country on outrage and insults. But that, apparently, is what Pierre Poilievre intends to do. Wallace writes: If recent polls remain the same, sometime between now and October 2025 Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Leader Pierre Poilievre will become Canada’s next prime
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: 4 Things to know when making a Last Will and Testament
If you’re making the Last Will there are 4 things that you should think about. 1. Who do I want to leave my property to after I pass away? 2. Who’s the person that I want to appoint to take care of all of my property and affairs after I
Continue readingA View From the Back Bench: Going professional
2008 had been a busy year for me. I wrote dozens of essays and articles, ran data for a pair of election campaigns, started my first newspaper column, became a regular guest on a local radio show — Royal City Rag with Jan Hall on the University of Guelph campus
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Can We NOT put Males in Female Prison – Oh Canada…
Canada is putting men into female prisons and not just non-violent ones, but the ones that have caused serious harm or murdered their victims who happen to be mostly children and females. I want to meet the people who thought this was – somehow – a good idea. I’m not
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Inflation? Never heard of it! Finance Minister Nate Horner weighs in on public service bargaining
To hear Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner tell it Monday, you’d almost think there’s been no inflation in Alberta since the pandemic. Alberta Union of Provincial Employees President Guy Smith in a typical pose (Photo: David J. Climenhaga). Well, Mr. Horner is a scion of Alberta’s enduring and (mostly) Conservative
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Centrepiece cat.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emilia Belliveau makes the case for the fossil fuel sector to start paying for the harm it causes through carbon pollution, rather than being subsidized to lock us into dirty energy for decades to come. And Glenn Scherer reports on Johan Rockström’s work
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