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www.thestar.com Federal government clarifies the CRA won’t collect ‘any portion’ of a non-resident landlord’s unpaid taxes from tenants

The clarification comes after rising confusion caused by a 2023 Tax Court of Canada decision that saw a Montreal renter ordered by the CRA to pay six years’ worth of

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www.wgaeast.org Sesame Workshop Writers Authorize Strike | Press Room

Members of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) at Sesame Workshop voted unanimously, with 100% participation, to authorize a strike if management does not agree to a fair new collective bargaining agreement before their current contract expires on April ...

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Did you also watch Téléfrancais in school?
  • People have uploaded all the episodes to YouTube now.

    It’s just not the same though. The true experience is watching it on a TV/VCR on a cart that the teacher wheeled in.

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    Stubbornly high US inflation grew stronger than expected in March , vaulting to a 3.5% increase from last year
  • “High corporate profits are a main driver of ongoing inflation, and companies continue to keep prices high even as their inflationary costs drop.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits

    It’s a misnomer to call this “inflation” — it’s corporate collusion-driven price gouging.

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    Wyrmspan - First Impressions
  • Have only played two players so far. Even then, there was a lot of downtime, especially when you get to the third and fourth rounds.

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  • It’s a fun, more complex, dragon-themed game built on the foundations of Wingspan — familiar, but very different.

    It’s a lot of fun seeing the victory point-generating system you’ve built kick into gear, though once you start chaining things together turns can take forever. This, unfortunately, kind of sucks for the non-active player(s), as there’s nothing to do but sit and wait between turns.

    Playing this game with four players must take forever.

    More info about Wyrmspan: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/410201/wyrmspan

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    www.thetrillium.ca Staffers who left Ford government over Greenbelt scandal got exit packages: sources

    Ryan Amato and Jae Truesdell quit in the heat of the scandal but made as much as their colleagues who worked all year

    From the article:

    “It’s normal for government employees to receive severance if they’re fired. But Amato and Truesdell got payouts from the government despite quitting, making their cases unusual, according to three sources who've worked, or work, in ministers' offices, including one who shared a copy of their own contract.”

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    www.thestar.com Queen Street's Black Bull Tavern, one of Toronto's oldest bars, says its doors are closing next week

    A historic monumental bar is marking "an end of an era," as Queen Street West's The Black Bull Tavern— which has operated since 1833— announces its permanent closure this week.

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    www.cnn.com Fact check: Michigan GOP legislator posted about ‘illegal invaders’ at Detroit airport. It was Gonzaga’s March Madness team | CNN Politics

    A Republican state representative in Michigan, Rep. Matt Maddock, claimed on social media on Wednesday night that he had photo evidence of “illegal invaders” arriving at Detroit Metro Airport.

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    Tell me your government is clueless about students and schools without actually telling me
  • A bunch of school boards in Ontario have launched lawsuits against TikTok, Snapchat, and Meta, alleging the way the social media platforms are designed is harming children and disrupting schools.

    Ford disagrees with the lawsuits, but also believes that his ban on cellphones in schools in 2019 was effective. This demonstrates yet again that he and his government are clueless when it comes to education in this province.

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  • From this paywalled article in The Trillium: https://www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news/education-and-training/i-disagree-with-them-ford-says-of-school-boards-suing-social-media-companies-8524267

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    www.thestar.com Doug Ford's government is to blame for Ontario's teacher recruitment and retention crisis, unions charge

    Union leaders were responding to Education Minister Stephen Lecce, who said the province is considering “every available option” to address a teacher shortage.

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    Want to ease Canada’s housing crisis? Let’s start by being responsible about international student visas
  • This episode of Wag the Doug provides decent background about how the Ford government’s legislative changes and underfunding of public colleges led them to partner with private institutes to juice the number of foreign students for more cash.

    https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/56-students-in-strip-malls/

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    Want to ease Canada’s housing crisis? Let’s start by being responsible about international student visas
    1. Governments need to get back to investing in our publicly funded universities and colleges. Colleges and universities are broke from government underfunding and are turning to foreign students to fill the gap.

    2. Provinces (especially the Ford government in Ontario) changed the laws, letting private colleges (and private satellite colleges tied to public colleges) run amok, scamming foreign students and benefiting the companies that want to turn our education system into a cash cow.

    We should have a robust public education system that is attracting foreign students and providing them with the same quality of education available to domestic students. The players that look at our education system and see $$$ signs need to go.

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