This weekend was the first long weekend of the summer here in Canada. On Fridays before long weekends at my firm we get the after­noons off, so around 1pm everyone clears out and gets an early start on the rest of the cubicle dwellers around the Greater Toronto Area. I took the oppor­tunity to do […]

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Toronto released their budget this week and other than the usual tax hikes for property owners, this inter­esting post on Eye Daily about the gibberish and jargon of a city budget. It lists the specialized terms the budget contains to describe its expen­di­tures and revenues, and the list is incom­pre­hen­sible, even to me, a soon-to-be […]

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Last night the annual CA Convo­cation and “Dinner Dance” was held at the Westin Harbour Castle downtown Toronto. Good times were had by all, except that I think made an ass of myself on more than one occasion. That’s what drinking nothing but scotch and wine will do to you I guess! Lots of fun though […]

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A group of Toronto bloggers are getting together this weekend for the TTC TransitCamp to brain­storm ways to improve the TTC’s absolutely horrid website. When I first heard about it a few days ago, my first impulse was to try to get involved. Then I realized, there are probably many more Toron­to­nians with much more […]

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So everyone and their grandpa is still upset about the recent change to income trusts intro­duced by the Canadian federal government. The change was, of course, to implement a tax on trust income similar to corporate income tax. The outrage epicentre is Bay Street, Canada’s version of Wall Street, in the heart of the financial […]

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