I read that they are going to purchase the condos below the cost of construction. They are lowering the price, but for the government not us
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brit...ey-responds-vancouver-bc-condo-plan-9.7248862
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If the Canadian Federal Government wants a better tax income.....
Tax the generational wealth aspect, especially if families are hiding the money in a tax shelter, off -shore tax haven, or a family trust.
All of these things should be taxed at personal income for the next generation (takes up to 50% of their wealth). My thinking here is why should generational wealth not help the rest of Canadians in Canada.
The problem here is that Canadian Citizens have better access to accountants and tax strategists, who can start a person to start a "generational wealth" fund. As more people in Canada do this, less money is available for tax income from these wealth savings shelters.
Also banks should be taxed 2 - 3 X on what they make from "borrowing funds" repaymen,t than just plain interest. Interest made from borrowing off stocks (3X), interest off "lines of credits" , Visa interest. Banks have to pay this outright every quarter.... this is the case where the Fed government reaps the benefits of borrow money in Canada....
Also all first time buyers get "simple" interest on their mortgages on 1 house only. This applies to couples (only 1 house allowed only), if they divorce, it only goes to the person who gets the house... The other spose gets the benefit back, and then only a lifetime of 3 houses (3 divorces) applies.
People that have a tax haven shelter outside Canada, when found out, the Cdn government can extract up to 75% of the funds for government use.
Rich people leaving Canada have to leave 80% of assets behind over 2,000,000.00. (taxed of course)
Tax the generational wealth aspect, especially if families are hiding the money in a tax shelter, off -shore tax haven, or a family trust.
All of these things should be taxed at personal income for the next generation (takes up to 50% of their wealth). My thinking here is why should generational wealth not help the rest of Canadians in Canada.
The problem here is that Canadian Citizens have better access to accountants and tax strategists, who can start a person to start a "generational wealth" fund. As more people in Canada do this, less money is available for tax income from these wealth savings shelters.
Also banks should be taxed 2 - 3 X on what they make from "borrowing funds" repaymen,t than just plain interest. Interest made from borrowing off stocks (3X), interest off "lines of credits" , Visa interest. Banks have to pay this outright every quarter.... this is the case where the Fed government reaps the benefits of borrow money in Canada....
Also all first time buyers get "simple" interest on their mortgages on 1 house only. This applies to couples (only 1 house allowed only), if they divorce, it only goes to the person who gets the house... The other spose gets the benefit back, and then only a lifetime of 3 houses (3 divorces) applies.
People that have a tax haven shelter outside Canada, when found out, the Cdn government can extract up to 75% of the funds for government use.
Rich people leaving Canada have to leave 80% of assets behind over 2,000,000.00. (taxed of course)
Canada's former chief trade negotiator said Monday he doesn't expect Ottawa to reach a tariff deal with Washington before the U.S. midterm elections.
Steve Verheul told an online business audience Monday that there could be a window when U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are looking for a political win before American voters head to the polls in the fall.
"But I think it's more likely that the discussions will continue beyond the midterms and possibly even into next year."
While Canada and Mexico have both signalled they'd like to see CUSMA renewed for another 16-year period, the U.S. could opt to send the deal to rolling annual reviews. Trump could also trigger a clause to exit the agreement at any point with six months' notice.
While Trump has mused openly about walking away from CUSMA, Verheul noted there's broad support among the U.S. public, businesses, senators and members of Congress for renewing the trade pact.
https://www.biv.com/news/canadas-fo...ts-no-tariff-deal-before-us-midterms-12486721
We're still looking for a better Canadian economy.
Steve Verheul told an online business audience Monday that there could be a window when U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are looking for a political win before American voters head to the polls in the fall.
"But I think it's more likely that the discussions will continue beyond the midterms and possibly even into next year."
While Canada and Mexico have both signalled they'd like to see CUSMA renewed for another 16-year period, the U.S. could opt to send the deal to rolling annual reviews. Trump could also trigger a clause to exit the agreement at any point with six months' notice.
While Trump has mused openly about walking away from CUSMA, Verheul noted there's broad support among the U.S. public, businesses, senators and members of Congress for renewing the trade pact.
https://www.biv.com/news/canadas-fo...ts-no-tariff-deal-before-us-midterms-12486721
We're still looking for a better Canadian economy.
Consider a reverse mortgage, 80watts. You get the projected value of your equity in cash tax free. You spend freely and when you pass the bank's agent sells to recover the bank's cash. Caveat: if you sell you have to pay the cash back yourself.
A bit of west coast Canadiana. Historic heritage stern paddle wheeler and bush planes adapted for flights to Victoria and a few other places nearby. Burrard Inlet at east end of Coal Harbour next to Vancouver Convention Centre. 4x zoom and then compressed from 2.4 MB to 195 kB.
Happy Canada Day.
Canada can’t trade its way back to prosperity
The Economist even floated Canadian membership in the European Union.
The premise is appealing, but mistakes Canada’s problem. No trading partner can compensate for an economy that has spent years producing too little from each hour of work.
Workers produce more with better tools, and better tools come from investment, the machinery, software and infrastructure that let each worker produce more. Canadian firms have invested less than their American rivals for years.
Between 2013 and 2023, capital spending per worker grew about 28 per cent in the United States and roughly 7 per cent in Canada, and investment in the resource industries fell about 15 per cent. Business makes that investment. Government sets the climate in which firms decide.
Much of the gap between American and European incomes is a choice. Europeans take longer holidays, shorter weeks, earlier retirements. They traded income for time.
American output per person sits near US$85,000 and the European Union near US$43,000. Canada, around US$54,000.
By OECD estimates, an hour of Canadian work produced about US$75 of value in 2023, against US$89 in France and US$97 in the United States. Canada reaches European income only by working longer hours, and still produces less value per hour.
https://www.todayville.com/canada-cant-trade-its-way-back-to-prosperity/
Through extensive Public-Private Partnership (PPP) frameworks Canada builds infrastructure. Either the private sector continues operating the infrastructure after completion and gets paid in accordance with performance. Or alternately government operates the completed infrastructure.
The workforce needs be better familiarised yet and aquire aptitude preferably at an early age to operate infrastructure. Science demonstrations in elementary class. Full fledged hands-on experience on their own space starting by 7th grade. Comprehensive shop and laboratory science courses to the end of 12th grade. Supplemented with maths, written language composition, world history, geography. Efficient early learning allowing youths to learn-on-job complex work environments straight out of secondary school.
The Economist even floated Canadian membership in the European Union.
The premise is appealing, but mistakes Canada’s problem. No trading partner can compensate for an economy that has spent years producing too little from each hour of work.
Workers produce more with better tools, and better tools come from investment, the machinery, software and infrastructure that let each worker produce more. Canadian firms have invested less than their American rivals for years.
Between 2013 and 2023, capital spending per worker grew about 28 per cent in the United States and roughly 7 per cent in Canada, and investment in the resource industries fell about 15 per cent. Business makes that investment. Government sets the climate in which firms decide.
Much of the gap between American and European incomes is a choice. Europeans take longer holidays, shorter weeks, earlier retirements. They traded income for time.
American output per person sits near US$85,000 and the European Union near US$43,000. Canada, around US$54,000.
By OECD estimates, an hour of Canadian work produced about US$75 of value in 2023, against US$89 in France and US$97 in the United States. Canada reaches European income only by working longer hours, and still produces less value per hour.
https://www.todayville.com/canada-cant-trade-its-way-back-to-prosperity/
Through extensive Public-Private Partnership (PPP) frameworks Canada builds infrastructure. Either the private sector continues operating the infrastructure after completion and gets paid in accordance with performance. Or alternately government operates the completed infrastructure.
The workforce needs be better familiarised yet and aquire aptitude preferably at an early age to operate infrastructure. Science demonstrations in elementary class. Full fledged hands-on experience on their own space starting by 7th grade. Comprehensive shop and laboratory science courses to the end of 12th grade. Supplemented with maths, written language composition, world history, geography. Efficient early learning allowing youths to learn-on-job complex work environments straight out of secondary school.
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I would add 2 extra languages. And at a early age, cause its easier for kids to learn them.
Spanish and Chinese, (Indonesian, Thai, Japanese, Vietnese, Korean).
Forestry- has to get rid of clearcut (except for emergency cut for infestations), and go to Swedish/Norweigan model of selective cutting. Using wood to build houses is just wasteful (although cheaper), a more permanent solution is cement, ICF.
For mining the government should charge 15-20% mineral take (this sets aside minerals for future use), plus usual take on bussiness taxes. Of the business tax (10%) into a "Rainy day fund/Canadian future fund" of which only partial interest can be used by the Government. It a pay it forward fund for future generations
The main sources for taxes today are: 1. oil and gas taxes 2. income tax 3. GST and PST. 4. Stock market taxes (dividends and captital gains taxes)
Spanish and Chinese, (Indonesian, Thai, Japanese, Vietnese, Korean).
Forestry- has to get rid of clearcut (except for emergency cut for infestations), and go to Swedish/Norweigan model of selective cutting. Using wood to build houses is just wasteful (although cheaper), a more permanent solution is cement, ICF.
For mining the government should charge 15-20% mineral take (this sets aside minerals for future use), plus usual take on bussiness taxes. Of the business tax (10%) into a "Rainy day fund/Canadian future fund" of which only partial interest can be used by the Government. It a pay it forward fund for future generations
The main sources for taxes today are: 1. oil and gas taxes 2. income tax 3. GST and PST. 4. Stock market taxes (dividends and captital gains taxes)
Nurses are governed by an essential service designation, meaning the Labour Relations Board can determine what work functions nurses can and can’t withdraw.
Nurses could decide they are banning non-nursing administrative duties, leaving them to the managers at health authorities to cover.
The union could also restrict overtime, which would quickly decimate the capacity and operating hours of the system due to the fact overtime is widely used just to keep core services, like emergency room departments, available.
An offer of a 12 per cent raise over four years, plus improvements to benefits, shift premiums, and nurse-to-patient ratios, was rejected by 67 per cent of voting members.
Government health authorities tap private nursing agencies to backfill nursing vacancies in care. The move has angered the BCNU president Adriane Gear, which says the government should be spending that money on filling the more than 4,000 vacant nursing positions.
Nurses have cited crowded hospitals, understaffed facilities, reductions in benefits, workplace violence and low-wage increases as roadblocks in the negotiations.
https://www.biv.com/news/commentary...as-pressure-builds-on-eby-government-12500425
Children need to learn how to avoid strain on healthcare facilities throughout elementary school. Nutrition, hygiene, safety, lunch programmes, exercise regimes, manual dexterity.
Nurses could decide they are banning non-nursing administrative duties, leaving them to the managers at health authorities to cover.
The union could also restrict overtime, which would quickly decimate the capacity and operating hours of the system due to the fact overtime is widely used just to keep core services, like emergency room departments, available.
An offer of a 12 per cent raise over four years, plus improvements to benefits, shift premiums, and nurse-to-patient ratios, was rejected by 67 per cent of voting members.
Government health authorities tap private nursing agencies to backfill nursing vacancies in care. The move has angered the BCNU president Adriane Gear, which says the government should be spending that money on filling the more than 4,000 vacant nursing positions.
Nurses have cited crowded hospitals, understaffed facilities, reductions in benefits, workplace violence and low-wage increases as roadblocks in the negotiations.
https://www.biv.com/news/commentary...as-pressure-builds-on-eby-government-12500425
Children need to learn how to avoid strain on healthcare facilities throughout elementary school. Nutrition, hygiene, safety, lunch programmes, exercise regimes, manual dexterity.
Breaking: Bitumen pipeline headed to Roberts Bank.
https://www.todayville.com/by-closi...y-pipeline-route-that-can-actually-get-built/
https://www.todayville.com/by-closi...y-pipeline-route-that-can-actually-get-built/
Canada needs to take the tar sands oil and produce products from it, instead of giving it away at bottom prices, where other countries sell those same products back to Canada.
Got to get rid of "we don't want CO2 production in Canada", because it takes jobs away from Canadian.
Might have to do with who owns those tar sand oil companies.
AB, Sask or MB could set up a refinery on the Saskatchewan River (north or south)... ship it out through Churchhill MB
Canada should be refining over 90% of the tar sands.
That is just GNP that is flowing out of Canada... Its also the side jobs and companies that could also help GNP.
The smart countries today make their own products.
If I go into a grocery store and half the products come from the USA.....It means Canada is not trying to hard for food prosperity. food banks don't count....
Got to get rid of "we don't want CO2 production in Canada", because it takes jobs away from Canadian.
Might have to do with who owns those tar sand oil companies.
AB, Sask or MB could set up a refinery on the Saskatchewan River (north or south)... ship it out through Churchhill MB
Canada should be refining over 90% of the tar sands.
That is just GNP that is flowing out of Canada... Its also the side jobs and companies that could also help GNP.
The smart countries today make their own products.
If I go into a grocery store and half the products come from the USA.....It means Canada is not trying to hard for food prosperity. food banks don't count....
The Canadian government has chosen a German company to build Canada’s new submarine fleet.
Two senior industry sources with knowledge of the process have confirmed to CTV News that Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems will be awarded the lucrative contract for 12 new submarines.
One of Canada’s largest ever military procurements, the vessels are meant to replace Canada’s current fleet of four British-made Victoria-class submarines, which have been plagued with issues since they were purchased in 1998.
TKMS is pledging $160 billion in economic activity in Canada, $86 billion in GDP and more than 650,000 jobs over the entire project.
TKMS also says it has signed 19 memorandums of understanding in recent months, including agreements with companies like Seaspan Shipyards, EllisDon, and Marmen.
German government is backing major investments in the Port of Churchill in Manitoba to help get critical minerals and LNG to market. It also wants to invest in a carbon capture facility in Alberta.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...company-to-build-new-submarine-fleet-sources/
Seaspan is an association of Canadian companies involved in coastal marine transportation, shipdocking/ship escort, ship repair & refit.
EllisDon is a global employee-owned construction and building services company founded in 1951. In the Vancouver area.
From its beginnings in 1972 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Marmen, a family-run business, has experienced tremendous expansion and has propelled itself into international markets.
Submarine construction in Germany and Norway with designer European magnetic steel. Twelve billion dollars for 12 submarines. Including lifetime maintenance contracts could reach $100 billion for 30 to 50 year life.
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ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Type 212CD submarines do not use magnetic steel. Instead, they use a highly specialized, non-magnetic austenitic steel. This crystalline metal prevents the hull from disrupting the Earth's magnetic field, allowing the submarine to evade detection by enemy Magnetic Anomaly Detection sensors and rendering immune to magnetic naval mines.
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New West-East Pipeline: Premiers Smith and Ford announce MOU for Northern Shield Energy Corridor
“After signing an agreement last year to work together with Alberta and Saskatchewan to build new pipelines through an economic corridor from Alberta to Ontario, the Government of Ontario has unveiled a potential route of a new 3,300-kilometre oil pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to Sarnia, Ontario.
https://www.todayville.com/new-west...unce-mou-for-northern-shield-energy-corridor/
Didn't watch all of 27 minute video included bottom of short article. Smith speaks to Canada while Ford seems to preach to the choir. The current pipeline, Enbridge Line 5 carries over 500,000 barrels per day from Alberta through State of Michigan to reach Sarnia. Michigan complaints of environmental risks.
“After signing an agreement last year to work together with Alberta and Saskatchewan to build new pipelines through an economic corridor from Alberta to Ontario, the Government of Ontario has unveiled a potential route of a new 3,300-kilometre oil pipeline from Hardisty, Alberta to Sarnia, Ontario.
https://www.todayville.com/new-west...unce-mou-for-northern-shield-energy-corridor/
Didn't watch all of 27 minute video included bottom of short article. Smith speaks to Canada while Ford seems to preach to the choir. The current pipeline, Enbridge Line 5 carries over 500,000 barrels per day from Alberta through State of Michigan to reach Sarnia. Michigan complaints of environmental risks.
Ottawa has flagged space launches as a key sovereign capability in its new defence industrial strategy. The 2025 budget also earmarked $183 million over the next three years for establishing space launch capabilities.
In March, the federal government signed a 10-year, $200-million lease with Maritime Launch so Canada can send satellites into orbit without the help of other countries or foreign corporations. Defence Minister David McGuinty said at the time that about 20 per cent of the Canadian economy relies on satellites, including banking and telecommunication systems.
Spaceport Nova Scotia is being developed to provide launch infrastructure for commercial, civil and defence clients and is expected to become Canada’s first commercial launch pad when it becomes operational this year. It will provide Isar with the launch site, an operations centre and more services. It says Isar Aerospace Germany could be conducting up to 40 launches per year at the site by 2029.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...ear-deal-to-use-nova-scotia-space-launch-pad/
Canada built satellites:
MDA Space: Located in Montréal and Brampton, MDA Space is Canada's largest space contractor. They operate a massive digital satellite manufacturing plant where they build the MDA AURORA™ satellite line for global defense, communications, and Earth-observation missions.
Kepler Communications: Headquartered in Toronto, Kepler Space operates a 5,000-square-foot facility where they batch-produce their own Internet-of-Things communication satellites.
Churchill, MB, had a launch site. With most of our threats coming over our northern horizon (or southern if you include the orange asshole) and our desire to establish a northern military presence, Churchill would be a better location.
Churchill is a real pain in the ass to ship anything to!
Rail link only, dodgy port facilities, not much infrastructure, unreliable power grid.
Maybe northern Quebec? It’s closer to the Northwest Passage.
Looky here now!
It's that cowboy fella that Granny Clampett had a crush on!
Not a guy who would know anything about "warrior culture" LOL
It's that cowboy fella that Granny Clampett had a crush on!
Not a guy who would know anything about "warrior culture" LOL
"which have been plagued with issues since they were purchased in 1998."
The biggest mistake was trying to Canadianize a 20 year old submarine and expect it to actually work..... on a shoe-string budget. the fucken idiots should of built their own subs and industry in Canada....
And today we do the same mistakes from the past, give away the jobs and industry to another country for promises that will in 10 years be gone. The thing is if the sub was built here in Canada, the spare part would be built here too. In a time of conflict, going over to Europe to get a part to make a ship work is fucken stupid. Meanwhile we send 12 to 20 billion over to Europe and won't see anything for years to come.
After WW2 Canada and the US were the only countries not bombed, so our industries were there for post war expansion. However, Canadian industry started to disappear to pay for the War debt, or got wiped out due to lower prices of American goods.
Pretty sure you don't want a warrior culture, but warrior ethics. You need soldiers who will follow orders, yet know how to think for themselves....
Canada fight to be a nation came on the battlefields of WW1 and WW2, where officers took the advice of their soldiers under them. Not the stupid English "they are troops and they will advance (get killed), because those are my orders"....la la land.....
And how do you get shit from the prairies to Quebec, Northern Ontario is quit rugged and full of hills and valley and lakes.
The way to open up the interior of Canada (AB, Sask, MB) is to have a transport system that is better than Ontario/Quebec (st lawrence seaway and trains) with a long term project from the Sask River System (north, south, nelson rivers) to Hudson Bay.
The Hudson Bay still freezes up in Winter...So you have a 6 month ice free period??
Churchill is the worst for a military base. Not even close to the NW passage. The NW passage there are 4-5 routes to take. Still lots of hazards where it looks like open waters.
Pretty easy to make a deep water port in the Arctic, use lots of C4....dredge, and put in Roman cement barriers.
The problem arise because the gov wants it now. So they hire outside Canada for ships to do construction. When Canada should build its own speciality ships for any long term construction in the Arctic.
