Selective portions of a popular speech delivered on December 11, 1979 at Oslo, Norway. As we have gathered here together to thank God for the Nobel Peace Prize I think it will be beautiful that we pray the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi which always surprises me very much. Lord, make a channel of [...]
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Using Google to power your business
All of us know about Google – the search engine company. Most of us might even know about gmail, the email service from Google. But did you know that Google offers you an entire suite of office software and more? Office software similar to Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. And here is the best part, [...]
Fraudsters Beware: Detection Will Not Take Time
This is a true story of Corbin Joseph, who received a big payout from the Insurance Corp. of B.C., after committing a fraud. Mark Jan Vrem, spokesman for ICBC, says Joseph’s troubles began when he rolled his truck on a rural road when he was prohibited from driving. But in order to collect insurance on [...]
Canada is World’s 4th Friendliest Country: HSBC Survey
Canada is the fourth friendliest country in the world for expatriates, according to the results of HSBC’s Expat Explorer Survey. HSBC surveyed 3,385 expats in 100 countries between May and July 2011, but the findings only ranked 31 nations because those with less than 30 respondents “were deemed statistically insignificant,” Forbes.com reported. The countries were [...]
What Banks think?
‘At the condo side there is probably vulnerability ‘ -Royal Bank CEO Gord Nixon. There is a risk of a downturn in the housing market and the best hope is for a soft landing; investor owned properties are a cause for concern because there is a build up of supply based on investors expecting there [...]
Toronto is adjudged as world’s fourth most liveable city
The Economist Intelligence Unit announced last month (February 2011) it’s list of the World’s Most Liveable Cities. Toronto is world’s fourth most liveable city. Only Vancouver, Melbourne and Vienna are rated higher. In 2011 rankings, just 2.3 percentage points separated the number 1 ranked Vancouver, and the number 10 ranked Auckland, New Zealand. The Economist [...]
The Price of a College Education
In the market of goods and services, college education is unique in the respect that people typically assume that no price is too high to pay for a “quality education.” According to FinAid.org, a college financial aid website, the average cumulative debt for a student who has just completed an undergraduate degree is $22,500. For [...]
Freedom 65
A proposed federal private members’ bill – Freedom 65 – now seems likely to die before it can be voted on. If that happens then it is unfortunate. The bill would repeal a section of the Canadian Human Rights Act that allows federally regulated employers to terminate employees who have reached “the normal age of [...]
Fire the Fear
Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood,” said Marie Curie. new born child knows no fear. As the child grows, it starts to experience fear at one stage or another. Parents and others knowingly or unknowingly teach fear too. Then those fears run through life. Only very few people [...]
Tax Related Questions and Answers.
The Canadian income tax system is a self-assessment regime. Taxpayers assess their tax liability by filing a return with the CRA by the required filing deadline. A taxpayer who disagrees with CRA’s assessment of a particular return may appeal the assessment. The appeal process starts when a taxpayer formally objects to the CRA assessment. Here [...]
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