Recent content by ballz

As I recall, Special (Education) leave was essentially the bridge for people in full-time studies after they depleted all of their existing annual leave and there was no real super useful way to employ them. E.g. 01 April - Fiscal year starts (midway through Academic semester) 20 April -...

This is common in most professions. There are big law firms, big engineering firms, big accounting firms, all of whom employ lots of professionals who are not owners/partners. But there are also lots of sole practitioners or "partner-only" firms in those professions. Technically they are still...

That's because the ability to be truly be a "self-regulated profession" comes from provincial legislation. In every province, there is an Act pertaining to the practice of law, medicine, accounting, etc. that grants various authorities for a certain body (i.e. CPA Alberta, Law Society of...

The use of the word "discipline" in the professional world vs. the CAF are not interchangeable. It's making this discussion quite a tangled mess. Under the CAF, the "disciplinary" system is the NDA, up to and including very serious criminal offences (i.e. indictable) but also including less...

It's hard to pin down the correct value on professional services until you've already proceeded without it and screwed something up.

A lawyer died and was met by St. Peter at the pearly gates. St. Peter says "oh, that was a long and full life, good for you." “There must be some mistake,” the lawyer complained. “Why is that?” asked St. Peter. “Because I’m only forty-two years old!” exclaimed the lawyer. “Oh? According to your...

Yes, I noticed that as well at my last airport trip. Can't remember the exact wording on the sign, but it clearly only included currently serving members for Verified Travelers. In any event, I did get my new card about a month ago. It seems totally reasonable to me that the veteran card...

I suspect if you're looking for gains, you would only need to look as far as the portfolios of Trump and insiders, after he manufactured a >20% drop in the stock market long enough for everyone to invest, and is now manufacturing it.... I don't know if I said it on this forum, but I definitely...

If I understand that correctly, because the town of Bauline is in the St. John's CMA, it's population gets counted as urbanites? Bauline... population 412... ?

These are distinctions without a difference. To pretend otherwise is to deliberately be obtuse because it suits a partisan agenda. Income taxes and consumption taxes that are tied directly to the economic productivity of a province made up 89%+ of federal government revenues in the 2024 fiscal...

I don't really think the Carleton riding result is indicative of anything to do with PP. As mentioned by Kory Teneycke, that whole area went red in the provincial election as well. Part of the swing probably has more do with the re-drawing of the electoral boundaries, the geographic area voting...

You can put as much as you want in a TFSA or RRSP - you'll just start getting taxed heavier on it after you exceed the limits, to the point that it's usually not worth it (there are cases where overcontributions were made deliberately because it made tax sense). They can legislate to tax the...

Define "control" ? The Canadian government certainly can't tell them what to do, but it does control it's own Income Tax Act, can require any reporting it wants, can tax anything it wants, has essentially unlimited ability to audit anything, question anybody, etc. [and they can force you to...

An annual maximum, sure... can the median income Canadian at than $43,000/year (in 2022) afford to put anything into a TFSA? Probably not. What about an RRSP? Also probably not. And yet no one is complaining that the wealthier 50% of individuals who contribute to those in order to avoid tax are...

It's tax avoidance, which is legal.... You know what else is tax avoidance? Putting money into a TFSA. Putting money into an RRSP. All allowable loopholes which are not available to corporations.