55 Replies to “August 2, 2018: Reader Tips”

    1. What a hart warming story about “Syrian refugees” creating employment opportunities in building renovation, sanitation and fire prevention.

      P.S. Damn, you beat me by four minutes to post it.:p

      1. Don’t think of it as vandalism but as an economic stimulus. (Yeah, right.)

    2. Why Complain about damage when the RCMP act as Luggage porters & Wet Nurses for illegal border crossings.. The Canadian flag has been replaced with the face of Jane Fonda (Hanoi Jane) and I think I heard that Ontario School Repairs were intended to be paid by the Carbon Tax… 10 million paid to a terrorist that killed an American without a Court Judgement…Just the right thing to do between Lawyers…… and you think Hotel Damage is your problem…..Who is printing your Money?

      Please,

      1. Meanwhile, I can’t get a mistake on the income tax return for my father’s estate quickly corrected. The request was submitted in late May. It was “received” in mid-June. I found out earlier today that I might have to wait another 6 weeks before I find out how much more I need to pay.

        How on earth does the government in this ever get anything accomplished?

        1. They never really accomplish anything. It is an illusion that Canadians are more than willing to ignore as long as their taxes keep going up.

        2. I appealed a tax return consisting almost exclusively of T4 and T5 slips. 6 months 29 days 23 hours and 50 minutes of document storage. 10 minutes to make the adjustment – 7 freaking months

          1. What gets me is that I have to respond on my clients’ behalf with 30 days or else; meanwhile, they can delay for ever or near offer with minimal penalty. Am reminded of the time, back in the day, when Rev Can – as it then was – requested confirmation of a tuition receipt. Which I duly sent it (this was April). Come late June, my husband’s refund still hadn’t been processed and we were depending on that to pay our city tax bill. Phoned Rev Can, got the run-around, pointed out that it was OUR MONEY and we needed it. Fortunately it did come through just in time so I didn’t have to get creative to pay the city taxes.

            I have heard, however, of serious hardships suffered by others. One concerned a corporation who – on the original T2 – did owe but, when the adjustment was filed, did not. CRA took well over a year to sort out the adjustment, much to the frustration of the corporation, their accountant, and the CRA agent handling the case who couldn’t finish it off because CRA had a new program and said agent hadn’t been signed off on same. Meantime, a particularly aggressive and lazy CRA collections agent – no doubt going for bonus – totally ignored the file saying there was an amendment and it was CRA’s fault had not been finalized and seized the original assessed amount from the corporation’s bank account. That almost did the corporation in; fortunately, they were just able to keep going until all cleared and refund received.

            In my more cynical moments, I am willing to bet that collections agent got serious rewards for his aggressiveness.

          1. I had an audit a few years back where my ESL auditor disallowed every fuel, for my pick-up, that was less than the fuel tank capacity of my wife’s car. I’m in sales, with a territory the size of Belgium. That amounted to $500 in extra taxes. Had we paid her bank $360 for a complete paper trail, and then spent probably a whole weekend on it, we could have cleared the deduction. That was on top of a a $450 tax error in their favor that they would not relent.
            I suggested that my auditor was ethically bankrupt, having vacated a country with no opportunity for political, religious, or economic freedom only to go to work for the confiscatory arm of the federal government.

      2. The refugees hate it here.
        They squander welfare $
        They damage stuff, as reported by Sheila Gunn on the Rebel.
        Where’s the quarantine for these sick people and sessions of indoctrination then?
        Etc.

        Mister Trudeau you have some explaining to do, if you’d stop tripping and grow up. Bébé tête carré!

        Looking forward to next report by S.D.A. Ace Reporter…TQ

  2. Many of the posters here are about my age, over sixty. Here is my tip. Get vaccinated for shingles. My doctor didn’t think I was at risk. Wrong. I have been suffering from a bad case of this infection for the last five weeks.
    The first few days I thought I had torn a muscle in my shoulder. About four days later a red blister appeared, followed by a few more.
    I went to the ER and got the diagnosis and a prescription for antibiotics, five days after the pain started, one day after I started meds, the rash worsened. A day later my entire arm was affected. Meds for ten days, pain and itching for almost five weeks now.
    Do yourself a favor!
    Get the vaccination!
    https://ibb.co/kWn76K

    1. I second that. My wife is suffering the painful after affects of a bad case for over three months now. She noticed the infection after three days in mid April, but to late to catch it totally. We both had the original shots a few years ago, but found out that they are only about 50% effective. Get the new shots available as they are 90% effective. The pain is slowly dissipating.

    2. If one contracted the chicken pox as a child one can contract the shingles. You probably have been going through something stressful in your life. It can be triggered by stress.

      I feel for you because this is very painful. I had the shingles about 30ish years ago. An itch and rash started on the lower back and followed in due course along the nerve line to the front of the upper abs.The antibiotics cleared it up. Be patient with yourself. Most importantly love yourself and you’ll get better despite yourself!
      P.S :
      Thanks for sharing. You’ve given us all some good advice. Whether people take it or not, is another thing, so at least be kind to yourselves and try to avoid stress, people. Also, the photo tells it all, that’s exactly how ” pretty ” I was too!

      1. @6:57 Yes, perhaps, is that what they are saying, no go for over age 72? I don’t know about the vaccination. It is new. It has not been recommended until recently.

        However one can ‘contract’ the chicken pox and later the shingles at any age. I knew other young people who got it also. We comiserated at that time.

        Most of the younger Canadian generations don’t know how lucky they are because they have been immunized when they were babies for the childhood diseases. (measles, mumps, chickenpox etc)

        The shingles are very painful, the pain was deeply felt like it was coming from within 4 inches deep. This is not simply a rash.

      2. Both my wife and I are over 72 and our doctor is giving me the new shots, but my wife is immune for a few years because of the bad infection she had in April. So she does not have to spend the $300.

    4. Shingles is caused by the Chicken Pox virus Herpes Zoster.
      After having the Chicken Pox you carry the virus for the rest of your life.
      Shingles frequently occurs during episodes when the immune system is, for some reason, weakened.
      In my statistical life experience shingles is often an early alarm bell for cancer.
      I appreciate your warning, hope you will heed mine.

      1. Thanks for the heads up. I usually don’t get sick, maybe a cold or the flu once every couple of years
        The big killer for me is this outbreak has curtailed my lifting, for now anyway. As soon as my shoulder feels better I expect to be in the gym again in search of the elusive 450 deadlift. If I die young I want to leave a good looking corpse 😉

        1. Getting shingles is one thing but don’t be going for abdominal hernias at the gym now when you get better! Yikes!
          Good Luck! Get well soon.

  5. With very few exceptions, the inhabitants of poor countries either:

    1. Profess Islam or communism
    2. Don’t have the intelligence or impulse control required to stop themselves from having more children than they can feed.

    With very few exceptions, that’s why they’re poor.

  9. I’d like to know the education level of these ‘refugees’. I’ve read they are illiterate in their native language with an average education of about grade 6.
    If this is true the prospect of becoming literate in English is likely remote. The chance of being a productive citizen even remoter…..Howz that for literacy – ha

  10. Remember the era, before the borders were thrown open, when refugees were actually vetted to determine the skill sets they might have that would enable them to find work. There isn’t that much work at Tims and Walmart for the unskilled.

    1. Tims and Walmart require some basic manners and civilized behaviour from their employees.

    1. She was a “TAD” overwhelmed by her mental illness. She’s lucky she wasn’t in some other state and the man didn’t have kids in his car or she might have a hole in her head rather than her purse.

  12. I did NOT know this.
    The always must-read Bruce Bawer.

    THREE PROMINENT BRIT CONSERVATIVES DEFENDED TOMMY’S TREATMENT

    https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/freedom-for-tommy-robinson/

    Ever since Tommy Robinson was summarily arrested, tried, convicted, and imprisoned on May 25 – for the supposed offense of having live-streamed a Facebook report from outside a courthouse in Leeds where members of a Muslim rape gang were on trial – the British left and its allies abroad have been arguing that justice was done. And it’s not just the left that has defended this sham. As I noted on June 5, three of Britain’s most prominent conservative critics of Islam joined in the pile-on: columnist James Delingpole, UKIP founder Nigel Farage (who pronounced that “the judge had almost no choice but to give him a jail sentence”), and Tory MEP Daniel Hannan (who affirmed that “Tommy Robinson belongs in prison”).

    1. Whoa, should have finished the piece before posting.
      MELANIE PHILLIPS too!
      Author of ‘Londonistan’.

  13. Socialism gets a hard left to the jaw.

    “The party’s leader Jagmeet Singh has refused to accept a paycheque in his new position until the party’s coffers are in better shape.”

    …-

    “NDP’s Financial Woes Continue As Jagmeet Singh Refuses Paycheque

    The party says the recent Ontario election affected fundraising.”

    “OTTAWA — The federal New Democrats are having a difficult time catching up to their federal rivals in the fundraising department, as the party reports pulling in less than a million dollars from far fewer donors than the other parties during the second quarter of the year.”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/08/01/ndp-fundraising-jagmeet-singh_a_23493834/

    1. “The first quarter was stronger for the party, when it raised $1,372,760 from 16,132 contributors.”
      That’s an $85 dollar average. I bet they give even less per year to charity.

  14. AGW FAIL FAIL.

    From Siberia to Georgia, USA.

    …-

    “Record cold in Siberia – Breaks 99-year-old record

    Average daily air temperature is below multi-year values ​​by 4-6 degrees C, in some places by 8 degrees.

    On the night of July 30 in Tobolsk the thermometer dropped to +6.5°C, tying the 1955 record.

    Last night, July 31, the absolute minimum temperature in Krasnoyarsk was blocked, the current one is +3.3°C, lower than the previous one by 1.6°C, which was observed in 1919.”

    https://www.iceagenow.info/record-cold-in-siberia/

    …-

    “Georgia peaches clobbered by cold – 2nd year in a row

    Cold weather has taken a jumbo bite out of the Peach State’s peach crop for the second year in a row.

    A similar hardship appears to have eliminated half of Georgia’s more lucrative blueberry yield.

    Last year’s freezes and other ill-timed cool weather destroyed all but about 15 percent of the state’s peach crop.

    Georgia peach farmers were hoping for a better harvest this year, but late freezes in March ravaged many orchards, destroying more than half of this years crop.”

    https://www.iceagenow.info/georgia-peaches-clobbered-by-cold-2nd-year-in-a-row/

  16. The Altering of the Deal…isn’t central planning wonderful?

    https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/no_doubt_about_it_the_deep_state_is_real_and_trump_is_its_latest_tool

    THE DEEP STATE
    IS REAL & TRUMP
    IS ITS LATEST TOOL
    By John Whitehead, RUTHERFORD.org
    7-23-18

    “Behind the ostensible government sits
    enthroned an invisible government,
    owing no allegiance and acknowledging
    no responsibility to the people.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt

    (EXCERPT)- With Trump’s blessing, the military’s budget—
    with its trillion dollar wars, its $125 billion in administrative
    waste, and its contractor-driven price gouging that hits the
    American taxpayer where it hurts the most—
    will continue to grow.

    Borrowing a leaf from his buddies in
    China, Russia and North Korea,
    Trump is even planning a $12 million military parade
    on November 10 to showcase the nation’s military might.

    Follow the money.
    It always points the way.

    The corporations are getting richer, average Americans are
    getting poorer, the military is getting more militaristic,
    America’s endless wars are getting more endless, and the
    prospect of peace grows ever dimmer.

    This is exactly how you keep the Deep State in power.
    We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for so long
    —sold to us in the name of national security and global
    peace, maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and
    order, and enforced by a standing army of militarized police
    and a political elite determined to maintain their powers at all
    costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it all started
    going downhill, but we’re certainly on that downward
    trajectory now, and things are moving fast.

    The “government of the people, by the people, for the people”
    has perished.

  18. The Seth MacFarlane cartoon is amusing, even the jibe at us annoying Christians at the end, but I find his comments on Twitter even more amusing.

    Seth MacFarlane on his awesome personal integrity as it relates to politics: I’m a liberal because I was always taught, even when we were broke, that some things are more important than money. Twitter 31 Jan 2018

    Seth MacFarlane denouncing Tucker Carlson and Fox News: In other words, don’t think critically, don’t consult multiple news sources, and in general, don’t use your brain. Just blindly obey Fox News. This is fringe shit, and it’s business like this that makes me embarrassed to work for this company. Twitter 16 Jun 2018

    What’s funny about this? MacFarlane is worth about $200 million, virtually all of which he earned because of Family Guy on Fox, the company he’s ashamed to work for, but continues to work for. Some things are more important than money, LOL.

    Although the conservative side I support is seriously flawed as all of human endeavors are, I don’t look forward to the day when liberal and socialist atheists like MacFarlane are ruling the US. It’s bad enough that they presently run Canada.

  19. Dying UN tweerts: Send muny with our Blue-White hellmets. Hurry!

    …-

    “United Nations grapples with financial woes, decline in global influence”

    “What’s more, the cash shortfall is worse than in previous years, Guterres said, and appears to highlight a disturbing pattern in late payment by member countries.

    “Our cash flow has never been this low so early in the calendar year, and the broader trend is also concerning: we are running out of cash sooner and staying in the red longer,” the Portuguese diplomat wrote in a letter to member states.”

    https://globalnews.ca/news/4357715/united-nations-cash-shortfall-decline-in-influence/

  21. “United Nations grapples with financial woes, decline in global influence”

    Dan 11:20  Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

    Should be translated, “one who sends out a raiser of taxes”/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi41iklHU9I&list=PLF-jxWf6vmouWy7ldOTh1ay9_Yg8Fv7z9&t=0s&index=20

    The Globalist Plan To ‘Repeal And Replace’ The United Nations

  22. so who’s the bad guy here? the trigger happy cop or
    the Vietnam vet saving his grandson from gawd knows what?
    https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/08/02/a-vietnam-war-vet-fatally-shot-a-home-intruder-to-save-his-grandsons-life-then-colorado-police-shot-and-killed-him.html
    ‘not all cops are bad snarf snarf snarf’ uhuh. but how can you tell the rotten apples when they ALL read from the same script, ALL subject to the same screening, training, evaluation, police act regulations, all part of the same ‘brotherhood’, all parked under the same cone of silence?
    hmmm? just how does one tell the difference?

  23. https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/08/01/569921/The-SoCalled-Arab-NATO-To-Counter-Iran

    The So-Called Arab NATO: To Counter Iran

    It’s not a new idea; but an intensification of the United States’ hostile policies toward Iran, under Donald Trump’s presidency.The idea of forming an anti-Iran political and military alliance comprised of the US and six Persian Gulf Arab states plus Jordan and Egypt. A so-called Arab NATO that is tentatively known as the Middle East Strategic Alliance or MESA. The White House says it’s been working on the concept of the alliance with the US’ partners in the Persian Gulf region for several months now.

  25. Outbreak of cat scratch itch reported in HofC Liberal aisle, to left of SLJustine’s cat scratching bench.

    Let the ridicule begin. Ezample: Here, Puyss…..

    …-

    “McKenna’s anti plastics push on Twitter running afoul of local businesses”

    ” Environment Minister Catherine McKenna’s campaign against plastic straws is fodder for her Twitter critics this week after she twice posted incorrectly that local Ottawa restaurants have banned them entirely.

    McKenna, who is on a nationwide tour this summer to tout the need to reduce plastic waste, took to Twitter on Wednesday and Thursday claiming both the Feline Cafe and Bar Laurel in her Ottawa Centre riding had confirmed they were no longer providing straws.”

    https://globalnews.ca/news/4367968/mckennas-anti-plastics-local-businesses/

  27. AGW Fail.

    …-

    “Jerry Brown: Fire-Fueling Heat Worst ‘Since Civilization Emerged 10,000 Years Ago'” (PJ)

    …-

    “My Great-Grandparents and the Matheson Fire of 1916”

    “My great-grandparents, Edgar and Emmeline Caswell, moved to Cochrane in 1909, six years before this fire. Here’s how the Northland Post told the story of this move in Edgar’s obituary:

    It was at the beginning of 1909 that Ed reached Cochrane, his family following in the spring. He carried on as a builder and contractor, one of his first contracts being for the foundation of the new station.

    Then he started a grocery store, which Mrs. Caswell carried on for a time while her husband worked out of town on railway construction. Following an attack of typhoid, however, he returned to town, sold the store, and entered the service of the municipality in May, 1913.

    During the next thirty years he filled practically every position on the town staff outside the offices. He was town foreman and building inspector for many years, and at one time even served as acting chief of police.

    The fire of 1916 was, in fact, the third fire to “wipe out” the town of Cochrane.

    First came the fire of 1910. Edgar’s biographer, Dick Bourgeois-Doyle, tells the story of an August night that summer:

    Ed Caswell was awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of gunfire in the streets near his home.

    The bank manager had emptied his shotgun into the sky when he realized that people were not being roused by the engine whistles and all the yelling. Fire had broken out for unknown reasons along the town centre. For the next three hours, Ed and his neighbours ran, sweated, and strained to kill the fires in heroic – but nearly hopeless – bucket brigades, ultimately saving only one house on the two main streets.

    Then, in the summer of 1911, just a year later, the Great Porcupine Fire, also reported in The Guardian, struck the town: …”

    https://ruk.ca/content/my-great-grandparents-and-matheson-fire-1916

  28. Live Watching Sean Hannity at 21:45 Eastern:
    He said that very soon something big is going to be going down in the U.S. of A.! Arrests?

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