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Doug Ford’s PCs vote to end access to political officials’ records
64And Doug Ford whines about double standards! Give me a break.
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Group Health patient could lose his doctor for using a walk-in clinic
SooToday 42So 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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Violence against teachers, staff the ‘new normal’ in classrooms across Ontario
5Kids today have a completely different worldview that you did, and so did the parents of these kids. For one thing (and one thing only) you and others here never endured 2+ years of social disruption during the most formative years brought on by a global pandemic, so spare us the "old ways" is better.
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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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Controversial tenancy bill passes at Queen’s Park
SooToday 27More gaslighting from the Ford government and its patronage appointed Landlord Tenant Board. Has this administration done anything for those who aren't their wealthy donors?
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Recurring equipment failures close Searchmont for the day
SooToday 25Grow up
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Canal District questions city’s support for moving Agawa Canyon Tour Train depot
SooToday 28It's truly bizarre that many of you think that this is some failure or conspiracy of the City, which neither operates or owns the Canal District or the Tour Train.
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Police warn drivers not to be naughty during Santa Claus Parade
SooToday 17One less Grinch.
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Police warn drivers not to be naughty during Santa Claus Parade
SooToday 17Your nightmares aren't very frightening.
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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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Ford government to restrict public access to politicians’ documents
SooToday 22This is about as predictable as snow in March.
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Violence against teachers, staff the ‘new normal’ in classrooms across Ontario
15A lot of "analysis" here about this issue from frequent site users who have, through their submissions over the years, demonstrated the very reasons why young minds question and act on differences of opinion, who continue to analyse with no hint of responsibility or irony....
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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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VIDEO: Canada’s population actually shrank last year — is that a good thing?
13Maybe the "Domestic" population can start to fill the void that business, industry and social services require to maintain the entitlements that they expect.
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Sign of spring: Street sweeping is underway
SooToday 12You don't know anything about street sweeping do you?
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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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Doug Ford’s PCs vote to end access to political officials’ records
13That started a long time ago
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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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