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‘Shady, secretive system’: Public Safety green-lit RCMP, CSIS spying devices, documents reveal

September 22, 2016

Public Safety Canada has repeatedly approved CSIS and the RCMP’s use of devices to spy on Canadians’ communications, documents obtained by CBC News reveal.

Canadians have been kept largely in the dark about police and intelligence agencies’ surveillance capabilities. But recent revelations in a Montreal court case that police are using electronic tools to scoop up mobile phone signals have prompted some experts to call for greater transparency in the approval and use of technologies that potentially violate privacy.

Source: ‘Shady, secretive system’: Public Safety green-lit RCMP, CSIS spying devices, documents reveal CBC

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Is Vancouver’s vacant home tax going to rely on snitches?

September 16, 2016

New details about Vancouver’s plan to tax vacant homes are raising as many questions as they answer, say experts, including how much it will rely on neighbourhood snitches to catch those who try to skirt the rules.Yesterday, Mayor Gregor Robertson revealed a few more details of his plan to tax empty homes up to two per cent of their assessed value, with the aim of encouraging real estate speculators to rent out their business holdings rather than leave them empty.But with tens of thousands of dollars of potential taxes on the line, Michael Ferreira of Urban Analytics says there are going to be plenty of owners looking to cheat the system.

Source: Is Vancouver’s vacant home tax going to rely on snitches? – British Columbia – CBC News

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Canada’s Household Debt Hits Record in 2Q

September 16, 2016

OTTAWA — Household debt in Canada climbed to a new record in the second quarter as the demand for loans outpaced tepid growth in after-tax income.The country’s national net worth remained largely unchanged in the April-to-June period from the previous quarter, Statistics Canada said Thursday.The ratio of household credit-market debt to disposable income in the second quarter climbed to 167.6% from 165.2% in the previous quarter. That means households, on average, owed 1.68 Canadian dollars for every dollar of after-tax income earned. The previous record was 165.4% in the fourth quarter of last year.

Source: Canada’s Household Debt Hits Record in 2Q — Update – NASDAQ.com

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Medical pot users’ needs trump landlord rights: Ottawa

September 5, 2016

OTTAWA — The federal government says it is under a legal obligation to put the rights of medicinal marijuana users ahead of the rights of property owners.

Health Canada was responding to criticism from a Coquitlam woman who said she incurred $135,000 in repair costs, caused by mould and damage to her rental property’s electrical system, due to a grow-op in the basement she discovered last year.

She said she was the victim of a $20,000-a-month commercial grow-up run by someone operating with two Health Canada licenses, giving them permission to grow a limited amount of pot for personal use. She had no knowledge of the grow op nor had she given her consent for it to be operated on her property.

Source: Medical pot users’ needs trump landlord rights: Ottawa VANCOUVER SUN

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Canadian couple forced to live apart after 62 years – So bad even the Brits reported on it

August 30, 2016

An elderly Canadian couple who have been married for 62 years have been forced to live in separate care homes.A photo of Wolfram Gottschalk, 83, and his wife, Anita, 81, went viral after their granddaughter shared their story.Ashley Baryik, 29 said her grandparents have been separated because there is no room for both of them at the same home in Surrey, British Columbia.Mr Gottschalk, who has been diagnosed with lymphoma, is on a waiting list to move into the same home as his wife.

Source: Canadian couple forced to live apart after 62 years – BBC News

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Why Canada’s Olympic medalists can’t outrun the taxman — yet 

August 30, 2016

When Canada’s Olympic athletes returned home from Rio this week with a 22-medal haul, they were met at the airport by cheering family and friends as well as autograph-seeking fans. But some of them may also soon be greeted by the taxman looking for a piece of their Olympic winnings.In addition to the hardware the winning athletes brought home from the games, each Canadian medal winner will also receive a cash award courtesy of the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Athlete Excellence Fund. Canada’s four gold medal winners will each receive $20,000, the three silver medalists will take home $15,000 per medal and each of Canada’s 15 bronze medal winners will receive $10,000. Note that the prizes apply to each member of a winning team such that, for example, each of the 18 players on Canada’s bronze-winning women’s soccer team will receive $10,000.

Source: Why Canada’s Olympic medalists can’t outrun the taxman — yet | Financial Post

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Release task force report on sexual assaults by doctors

July 18, 2016

It’s hard to believe the opinion of a single lawyer is holding up the release of a crucially important provincial task force report that shines a spotlight on the sexual abuse of patients by doctors and recommends ways to better protect the public. But it’s true.

The report, paid for with public funds after public hearings, has been gathering dust at Queen’s Park since March after lawyer Douglas Harrison of Stikeman Elliott found it to be defamatory, though other lawyers consulted by the province did not raise that concern.

Harrison said it “impugns all of the health profession colleges in Ontario, taking a broad-brush approach to accuse all of them of . . . turning a blind eye to sexual abuse and failing to appropriately discipline professionals.”

Source: Release task force report on sexual assaults by doctors: Editorial | Toronto Star

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