By Angello Martinello (WINDSOR, ON) – Here are three ways you can reduce your taxes by taking action before the end of the year. 1. Tax-loss selling With this strategy, you deliberately sell an investment to realize a capital loss, which offsets capital gains on other investments. Capital losses realized in 2010 must first be [...]
There was an event in April of 2004 that was not significant because of its rarity, but rather because of its rarity in Canada. We are not used to opening the morning paper to read that a bomb had been set off in a school on Canadian soil. Yet that is precisely what happened when [...]
It infuriates me to no end. The things that DRIC-ites will say without shame. And what really bugs me is that there are no consequences for saying them. No one dares stand up and call the untruths out for fear of being smeared. Just ask Senators Cropsey and Bishop what happened to them. I just [...]
I must admit that the debate about the long form census forms was about as interesting to me as urban chickens are to Councillor Dwight-Lite. I am sure that you remember the Government’s position as outlined in the Toronto Star: “Even one dissenting Canadian enough to kill long-form census, says Clement Industry Minister Tony Clement [...]
(NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA) – Work has begun on Australia’s largest Brayton Cycle solar-thermal tower system at the CSIRO* National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle, New South Wales. The solar-thermal tower’s 450 large mirrors, called heliostats, are part of an advanced new solar technology which has been developed by CSIRO and manufactured by the Performance Engineering Group. With [...]
(OTTAWA, ON) – The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement concerning Haiti’s presidential and legislative elections, which were held November 28: “After the events that took place yesterday in Haiti, maintaining political dialogue is more critical than ever to the country’s reconstruction and development efforts. “It is essential that [...]
(CORVALIS, OREGON) – FBI agents are investigating an apparent attack on the Salman Al-Farisi Islamic Center in Corvallis. The fire appears to have started sometime after midnight. There was fire and smoke damage to the office of the Islamic Center. The center is located at 610 NW Kings Boulevard in Corvallis. The FBI is offering [...]
(JERUSALEM, ISRAEL) – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Liberman met German President Christian Wulff in Jerusalem (28 November). FM Liberman said that relations between Israel and Germany are excellent, between the governments as well as between the peoples, with flourishing cooperation in many areas. The two countries are involved in very [...]
Three upcoming panels at York University will look at social, economic, technological and political issues arising out of the automobile. The first panel, “Technological Futures: Automobility and Beyond,” will take place Monday, Nov. 29, from 5 to 7pm on the 7th floor of the York Research Tower, Keele campus. The event is hosted by York’s [...]
(WINDSOR, ON) – Windsor Police are searching for the driver of a white van after a pedestrian was struck in the parking lot of an east side restaurant last Friday night. At 6:50 p.m. on Friday November 26, 2010, uniformed patrol officers responded to the rear parking lot of Dirty Jerseys Sports Grill at 6675 [...]
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