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  1. Canadian officials seem woefully unprepared to deal with the ongoing flow of migrants illegally crossing into Canada.
    These illegal crossings create a real security threat, and Canadians are not happy about it.
    An Angus Reid poll is the latest to convey this, finding that nearly three-quarters of Canadians prefer a focus on border security rather than providing aid to those illegally crossing into Canada.
    There is near unanimous agreement on the fact that these migrants pose a threat to our national security. Of those surveyed, half say the risk of dangerous people entering Canada is ‘significant’ or ‘huge,’ while 93% agreed there is some level of risk.
    http://www.torontosun.com/2017/04/14/canadians-are-right-to-be-concerned-about-border-security

  3. Hear its almost that time of year again.
    Earth day yet again.
    This year I was planning on renting one of those Hollywood rotating search lights.
    #keepthelightson

  7. AGW RIP.
    …-
    “Antarctica Record High Temp Of 19.8°C In Fact Set 35 Years Ago – When CO2 Was Low”
    “On March 1st Arizona State University reported on Antarctica’s record high temperature. Surprisingly the record was set not this year, or even this decade, rather it was set in the year 1982:”
    http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.Auklh2Z3.dpbs

  9. YeahWell >
    Stop destroying the narrative.
    Canada’s Liberals have spent a great deal of time and energy to turn Canada into a Third World shithole to teach us all a lesson in equality.

  10. “Stop destroying the narrative.”
    I will immediately report to room 101, and will henceforth desist from posting until I have been properly conditioned to love Big Brother.

  11. In your zeal to castigate the Liberals for spending a great deal of time and energy in turning Canada into a Third World Sh*thole, you seem to have missed the point that they have spent a couple of billion dollars of our Canadian taxes on spreading their idea of world-wide financial equality.

  12. I’m running my snow blower dry. It’s an annual ritual. Lots of exhaust ( two-stroke )
    and noise. Also just got a new firepit. All this past winter’s detritus is being burned.

  13. YeahWell >
    It’s interesting to note that nearly half the “Caucasian felons” or 99% of the “white women” were mixed in for “Parental Abduction”.
    Any bets that the majority of those involve custody battles with “foreign men”, attempting to relocate the children to the Middle East?
    Also if you subtract photo’s concerning – “Parole Violation”, “Failure to Appear” and “Breach of release condition” – it becomes crystal clear the cover-up of Canada’s major crime demographics.
    CAPTCHA = TARANTO

  14. Antenor >
    “….you seem to have missed the point that they have spent a couple of billion dollars of our Canadian taxes on spreading their idea of world-wide financial equality.’
    I guess I missed it.
    That said the Liberals really only expect equal poverty for the unwashed masses. They’ve never believed in financial equality for themselves. Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, Ian Cameron, Clintons, Zuckerburgs, Gates, Gores, the Turdeaus and on and on………..

  18. As we approach that magical time of year once again when the government demands our fealty in the form of taxes we come across this little gem, courtesy of our national broadcaster,
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-revenue-agency-paycheques-writeoffs-salary-clawed-back-1.4068087
    It would seem that the federal agency that requires us to reconcile our yearly earnings to taxes owed or paid can’t even reconcile a weekly time-sheet to a pay cheque. This would seem to be a little like the Adscam program of Liberal governments past, but on a rather smaller scale. For example, supervisor A tells laid-off worker X, “I’ll keep you on the payroll if you give me half of your cheque, and if we’re caught I’ll blame it on the computer or the program, and we’ll write it off because we can.” A really great little con game that only a government official could get away withy since if it happened in private business there would be fraud charges laid. By what stretch of the imagination can anyone believe that this has been going on for almost twenty years and nobody has been brought to account. Oh! Damn! Silly me it is after all the CRA.

  19. Clarice Feldman describes the schemes, lies, skullduggery, underhandedness and all the other ills of unchecked power.
    This is a sign and process of socialism in all its forms, socialism, fascism, national socialism and communism.
    It is quite unbelievable that this could happen to free people.
    Some of the things she describes are allowed under the United States constitution.
    You see, those that wrote and installed the constitution, worked on the assumption that future generations would be as decent and freedom loving as their own and that the people in their daily lives would take care of the republic. Well it does happen in large measure in the small town of America, in the big cities not so much.
    It remains to be seen if the fascists that mask themselves as antifa, to pre-empt calling them on it, will be successful in their quest for totalitarian dictatorship.
    If you think it can’t happen, just watch.
    The article quoting John Hinderaker of Powerline, Harry Lewis, Sharyl Attkisson, describes how the things that the government is not allowed to do to the American people, can actually do and construct a situation that will appear legitimate.
    Completely made up set of circumstances, quotes and assumptions.
    Here is one quote:
    …. “wiretapping” or electronic surveillance can also be done under Title III authority. The government used this authority, for example, …. in the secret Fast and Furious “gunwalking” case …. U.S. presidents have the power to issue secret presidential directives that can authorize otherwise illegal acts (theoretically in the country’s best interests). …. directives may come with pre-planned cover stories to be used in the event the operation is exposed, …. they come with indemnity for those involved, giving them permission to lie …. without fear of prosecution
    You will notice in the mass media that they quote people, some idiot will say something completely made up, then it gets quoted and quoted and quoted and referred to until it becomes the truth.
    It may get retracted here and there, though the seed is sown and it will grow.
    In Her Majesty’s Disservice
    By Clarice Feldman
    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/04/in_her_majestys_disservice.html
    The article reads as though it is some kind of fiction.

  20. Speaking of clawbacks, I recently had my late father’s accountant prepare the income tax return for last year. I was flabbergasted that, according to the government, my father earned too much money from his investments and the pension from his former employer.
    The result was that the estate had to pay back some of the OAS and CPP benefits that he received. These were benefits that my father worked for while he was alive, benefits that were deducted from his paycheque, and benefits that the government no longer thinks he was entitled to.
    Meanwhile, we’ve got federal cabinet ministers who unashamedly collect theirs because they’re entitled to their entitlements. Clearly, there is one law for the peasants, and a different one for the ruling class.

  21. Yes Liberal hypocrisy has no bounds. They remove money from your paycheck and call it a pension plan and then when you cut back on your lifestyle to save and invest for your future they claim that you are rich and therefore don’t need the full amount of your share of their government pension plan. Fifty years of paying all the taxes required in this country and they will chase your estate for even more when you die. The Liberals and NDPeers are past masters at the con game. What amazes me is that the vast majority of Canadians are like sheep and accept this as normal. To continue on the CRA item I once knew a person that worked for the CRA and believed that Harper’s TFSA only benefited the wealthy, that is the mentality we have to deal with in Canada today. There are none so blind as those who will not see or to put it another way, “Stupid is as stupid does!” As for Canadians well there are dupes, and then there are DUPES, and then there are Liberal/NDP voters.

  22. …people in their daily lives would take care of the republic. Well it does happen in large measure in the small town of America, in the big cities not so much.
    Well said!! People in big cities are like those who were so easily manipulated and controlled by the persuasive rhetoric of Hitler and his socialist minions. Cities are ‘shit magnets’ for the lowest levels of society; those who are always looking for more ‘free’ government cheeze.

  23. If you manage your finances so you ‘retire’ as a poor person, then the greedy govt gets very little of your retirement savings. Of course, if you were a wage-slave [aka. employee] you’ll get screwed. BOHICA
    If you are self-employed it’s a lot easier to screw THEM.

  24. Fifty years of paying all the taxes required in this country and they will chase your estate for even more when you die.
    Tell me about it. My father worked long and hard for his money, saved and invested whatever he could, and ended up with a small fortune by the time he died. (OK, it was a fortune for him.)
    Now I’m in the process of probating his estate. By the time I’m finished paying all the fees and taxes, both the provincial and federal governments will end up taking at least 10% of it.
    Aren’t these the same governments that say we’re supposed to be independent and stand on our own two feet?

  25. Of course, if you were a wage-slave [aka. employee] you’ll get screwed.
    That’s because the great unwashed are to be fully dependent upon Big Daddy Government for all their needs.
    It’s the same mentality behind why the Bolshies executed the well-off. They may have saved their money or resources, but they were regarded as criminals. Saving was seen as hoarding, and hoarding was considered to be theft.
    The ideal citizen is supposed to live in a tar paper shack and wear rags. Anything better than that is a sign of ostentatiousness and against the approved social order.

  26. For some people, making more money has been their goal. For me it’s been giving the least amount of what I earn to the government to waste. If that means working less, earning less, and having more free time to pursue my interests, then so be it. As one gets older time becomes much more valuable than money.

  27. I agree. I worked toward having adequate cash flow for retirement and use my time pretty much as I wish. I don’t have a company pension but staggered my modest investments so they would be available as earned income dwindled. I won’t say it was a perfect strategy but it keep the tax bite low and in my seventies I still play golf, enjoy beer, and spend part of the year in Florida.

  28. We must have had the same up-bringing. What you described is exactly my take on the workaday world and government extortion.
    Fortunately, I was able to combine a skill set that put me in an inflation proof service business … That financial arrangement really worked well. My wife worked for gov. so we had benefits. I could have grown my biz, but I didn’t want employees or complications.
    I minimized my tax hit with the zeal of a top tier tennis pro.
    Now retired .. it all worked out.

  29. I was able to combine a skill set that put me in an inflation proof service business … I could have grown my biz, but I didn’t want employees or complications.
    Exactly my case as well. I will be semi-retired for as long as I can keep enjoying what I do. I love my part-time self-employed work and the business deductions mean that most of the tax I’m forced to pay as I’m required to draw from my RIF, is returned as a refund.

  30. Agreed CRA’s payroll system is scandalously lax, but what about the payees. They all know whether or not they are entitled to said cheques, but are keeping them anyway. In the “real” world, that’s called fraud.

  31. B. A. – you need to check with your accountant. CPP is NOT clawed back, only OAS. And even then, clawback of OAS only begins when net income (line 236) is over $73,756.00. So a couple can have a combined income of almost $150,000 before clawback of OAS. What IS clawed back earlier is the age amount on Schedule 1. That clawback begins at $35,927.

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