Rants

Jon’s personal, unvarnished opinion! Involving politics and economics, and sometimes the law. Rants can be totally unprofessional so if you are easily offended, please stop reading now. Provided for your entertainment only!

Rant On Capital Gains/Income Tax

RANT TIME!! Scroll on if you do not care about this issue. So Pro-publica just issued a story that is completely bullshit (See below). Bullshit, Bullshit Bullshit. I call Bullshit. Yet it has the patina of truthiness and so a lot of people will be pulled into it. So...

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Tax Objections Rant

Tax Rant Alert: So for those of you who have not figured it out by now, I am a Canadian tax lawyer. Let me explain how your rights work and do not work with regard to dealing with the Canada Revenue Agency. Please feel free to forward this to people who have...

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Rant on Impeachment

So I have been quiet lately with the political rants because reasons. But here is the nutshell about what is going on in the US with the 2nd Impeachment of Donald Trump, in my humble opinion. This will be a long one... The riot on January 6th in Washington DC was a...

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Rant on Canada Foreign Policy

It may require a subscription to get access but this short article from the Economist, but clearly highlights the fact that that Canada is an international light-weight and getting lighter all the time. We did not lose the security counsel election because we did not...

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Rant on Provincial Court Case

Wooo!!! Hoo!! Whooop!! Great start to the long weekend, just won my first (and hopefully last ever) case before the Court of Queen's bench on appeal from Provincial court!! So the friend of a client who runs a painting business got sued by a rich doctor for no good...

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Rant On Capital Gains/Income Tax

RANT TIME!! Scroll on if you do not care about this issue. So Pro-publica just issued a story that is completely bullshit (See below). Bullshit, Bullshit Bullshit. I call Bullshit. Yet it has the patina of truthiness and so a lot of people will be pulled into it. So...

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Canada’s Health Care Worse than Everywhere Else

Canada’s Health Care System Better than the US But Worse than Everywhere Else… I harp on this issue time and time again on Facebook, because it seems like it just keeps coming back around. As the latest Commonwealth Fund report shows, once again, Canada's health care...

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U.S. Military Weighs Funding Mining Projects in Canada

Article: U.S. military weighs funding mining projects in Canada amid rivalry with China Quoted in the CBC again. This is related to a lot of other big-picture issues, but if you are down for a bit of a technical tax law rant on how western Canada ought to be able...

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Charities Blog

Article: Charity sector worth $300B per year, but CRA audits have dropped four-fold since 2010 I have been off and on ranting about this issue for years, but I never had the time or energy to determine if it was just me ranting based on my personal small sample of...

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