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Group Health patient could lose his doctor for using a walk-in clinic
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41So many people are so hyper focused on politics as a magical solution to their grievances and entitlements ("Carney is destroying Canada!, Pierre Pollievere is Maple Maga!, NDP is a joke!). Meantime, average Canadians and taxpayers, like this one, continue to see the services that they work hard for, and pay for, continuously decline. We turn blind eyes to money grifted by Doug Ford's endless campaign to reward its PC cronies, a new scandal almost every day. Set aside the partisan blinders and demand better.
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Canada Day celebrations are at Roberta Bondar Park
SooToday 11Bye
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GALLERY: Rotary Community Day Parade takes over Bay Street
SooToday 28Great Parade! Congratulations on everyone involved. And a Special Honourable Mention to the driver of MPP Chris Scott's "float" for bravely driving an empty vehicle through town. Good metaphor for the representation we are receiving.
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Is there a better way to move traffic between downtown and uptown?
SooToday 16Oh for crying out... I'm not a Sault native but have been here long enough to remember the peanut gallery outcry about Bay street reconstruction, and Queen Street 3-laning, and Queen street downtown, and traffic light removals, and all the changes that people who can't deal with change complain about, each predicting "Absolute Chaos!" and "Carnage" on the roads! If you're not an expert in how these things are planned and studied, you can certainly have an opinion, but not an entitlement to it.
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Canada Day celebrations are at Roberta Bondar Park
SooToday 19@OhitsJustMe. Disagree. Posts about giving up do not lead to progress. Yes, the ills of society are uncomfortable to accept and witness. This was Poutine Fest, with dozens or perhaps hundreds of people around, good people who care about the community and their neighbours, all coming together in a glorious celebration of cheese and gravy. I don't want kids to witness those things any more than the next person, but its a good teaching opportunity about such ills as the dangers of drug abuse. Ideally with honesty and empathy. If we all stop going downtown, we give up progress,.
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Ontario woman says government took 'every cent' of parents' savings
SooToday 19There is obviously waaaay more to this then what the headline suggests. There is talk of "partly RRSP" and "partly Cottage". For example, if these people's parents purchased a cottage 30 years ago in Muskoka or some such place for $100k which is now worth $2 million, which is not at all an unreasonable prospect, then that's $1.9M in capital gains which is taxed at 50%. This scenario as described is likely something similar to generate that kind of tax bill. The key line in this story is "that they need to be more informed about their taxes and estate planning" because there are ways to minimize estate and capital gains taxes.
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Ontario woman says government took 'every cent' of parents' savings
SooToday 15Just a footnote correction, the capital gain is not taxed at 50% as my example suggests. Rather, 50% of capital gains on property that is not one's primary residence are taxed at whatever that individual's marginal tax rate is. So in that scenario, say their marginal tax rate is 30%, then that would be 30% of 50% of the capital gain, or 30% of $950,000 (1.9M x .5). So that would be $285,000 tax on a capital gain of $1.9M at a 30% marginal tax rate. I'm sure there are all kinds of other considerations but for simplicity sake, the main point here is that you don't get that kind of capital gain tax without some pretty significant capital gains!
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VIDEO: Here’s the worst money mistake people make, says The Wealthy Barber
13This is good advice, but The one thing I wish were more prominent in any genuine advice about financial advice, car, house, or any loan for that matter, is this. The industry simply exists to exact as much money from you as possible. Period, full stop. And that is not necessarily a bad thing, lenders of money are not charities of course, but in most circumstances, you can be smarter. If you have cash on hand to buy a vehicle outright and have good credit to get a low interest rate or even one that matches current bank rates, you will almost always come ahead by financing and investing that cash over 3 or 4 years in safe appreciating investments over a depreciating auto loan. But you have to be disciplined.
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GALLERY: Rotary Community Day Parade takes over Bay Street
SooToday 4Yep, totally missed him then
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Ontario woman says government took 'every cent' of parents' savings
SooToday 11Maybe Burlington Today should have gotten all the facts from the letter writer before publishing clickbait that riles up the peanut gallery. They know full-well that CRA is not going to disclose anyone's personal tax information. I'm sorry these people's expectations of their inheritance from their obviously successful parents went unfulfilled and that the majority of their insurance payouts have gone to maintaining their obviously very valuable cottage property, its an outrage.
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Searchmont Resort providing info about proposed wastewater treatment plant this week
SooToday 6Hey, guess what? Your last trip to beaches of Pancake, Batchawana, Pointe Des Chenes, and all points in-between have one thing in common. Lake Superior. And Lake Superior not only receives treated wastewater from Cities like Thunder Bay, Duluth, Superior, Marquette, and every small town along the shore that has wastewater treatment, but also all the unregulated private septic systems, new and old, leaching into the Lake. It also gets all the Industrial pollution too! And for those down the line, you get SSM's treated effluent in addition to all of that! There's no Poo-fairy to assuage your concerns, one way or another it circulates. And treated wastewater to modern standards generally means it leaves the plant better that it would have otherwise, even without the toilets. So ask the questions and seek assurance that the system will be modern over the "icky" reaction to something you have been dealing with your entire lives and never gave it a second thought until now.
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Ontario public servants required to return to office five days a week by January
SooToday 3You really don't seem very happy in retirement. Definitely bored, but not happy.
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Blueberry pancake breakfast draws crowds at Old Stone House
SooToday 4Judging by some of these comments, I think they 100% nailed the degree of advertising for this event. Otherwise we'd be reading about parking, lack of napkins, some random comments about the plaza and people feeling unsafe amongst pancake eaters.
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'Game on!' Social services throws a street party for the community
SooToday 3Why don't you take the time to research the answers to the questions you pose here before you spout nonsense. Because this forum won't provide you with them.
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Public warned not to buy cars from ‘illegal’ Sault dealership
SooToday 3Well he's certainly a good customer for Soo Today's classified ads!
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Sault Humane Society searching for a new leader
SooToday 1These few comments have helped me understand that my very negative experiences with the SSM Humane Society had nothing to do with me.
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We want to hear from you!
SooToday 2While I appreciate the presence of local news coverage, especially in this day and age, I'm often disappointed in Village Media's lack of authentication in some of its articles, often relying on nothing more than regurgitating third party opinions or press releases. And I don't like the clickbait stories that are very lazy, like the recent one about some random people claiming the government takes all their capital gains. I mean, you can either be a tabloid or legitimate journalism or journalism that at least makes an effort. You can also be both as long as you make the distinction. And maybe that's the winning formula? I get that you need an audience to stay in business, but there is a market out there for some trust, so stick with that model, if I remember correctly that's how you marketed yourself when you launched.
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'Not a bad idea' to clear snow from rooftops, professor says
SooToday 3I'm so done with people who expect, no, demand, entitlement to the universe of knowledge that have no role whatsoever in contributing to it, beyond rejoicing in the ability to express their opinions in a magical anonymous digital way.
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