Economic and Fiscal Update November, 2005: – Decrease lowest tax rate from 16% to 15%, retroactive to January 1, 2005 – Increase basic personal amount over 3 years to reach $10,000 in 2009 Economic and Fiscal Update October, 2007: – Decrease lowest tax rate to 15% from 15.5%, retroactive to January 1, 2007 – Increasecontinue reading
October 2007 Archives
Everything’s (sort of) fine (for now)
RBC Royal Bank is feeling so confident about the Canadian economy that it thought it would hold a press conference to share its sunny outlook yesterday. According to Jim Westlake: “If the U.S. economy settles down and they get the types of growth that are forecasted right now, and you don’t see any more secondary effect,continue reading
Unclear on the Concept: part 2,135,234
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Parks Canada encourages geocaching
Pretty cool, even if they are controlling it a bit: Parks Canada caches are located in publicly accessible areas and are accessible from trails and/or roads. Instead of containing trade items, caches contain messages that reveal interesting often unknown aspects of the area where they are located. Parks Canada aims to encourage geocachers to sharecontinue reading
Tiny bubbles
– Am I the only person who is baffled by the parity protests? What is it that makes Joe 2-4 think that Canadian prices should be identical to those in another country, with a different size, different transportation costs, and different labour laws? And why is Flaherty grandstanding on this issue, pressuring retailers, who havecontinue reading
Is the blond hegemony crumbling?
As Toronto has grown, the share of Toronto-born-and-bred residents of the city is ever smaller. As part of that diminishing minority, I’ve noticed that many people who move to the city later in life are blissfully ignorant of the significance of being from one part of the city or another. Overall, this is a goodcontinue reading
Well, that’ll piss off the generals
Prime Minister Moves to Grant Honourary Canadian Citizenship to Leader of Democracy Movement in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi Interesting move. I approve (since I’m sure Stephen Harper’s decision-making hinges on my approval…). Note the language, too: in news articles and press releases including this one, I’ve noticed an almost total switch from “Myanmar (alsocontinue reading
May the years stretch ever longer in a Better Canada
It’s amazing what Strong Leadership can do. For example, it can apparently extend the number of days in a year in a previously unheard-of fashion: “During the last session our crime bills were held up by Opposition-controlled House committees or the Liberal majority in the Senate for a total of 976 days,” Prime Minister Harpercontinue reading
Canada’s never-to-be majority government strikes again
Still not sure what the Harperites are calling themselves since they decided that, with a fresh session of parliament, it was time to drop the “new”. Given this photo, though, I’m confident my own personal name for them is correct. Here they all are, having a good laugh at Stephane Dion, his slightly less torturedcontinue reading
Oh dear
Headline in my RSS this morning: Canada’s New Government Increases it’s Commitment to Enhancing Girl’s Education in Afghanistan