Got those Budget-Shoe Blues
![As per tradition, Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty buys new shoes for delivering the Budget: steel toed to make it easier to give charities the boot! [The Conservative Govt. has threatened to pull charitable status from some environmental groups.]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1002201409022014.jpg)
As per tradition, Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty buys new shoes for delivering the Budget: steel toed to make it easier to give charities the boot! [The Conservative Govt. has threatened to pull charitable status from some environmental groups.]
Apple Falls
Apple stocks fall $45.45 or 8% even as the company celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Mac
“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
When asked about record-high child-poverty rates in B.C. and what his government could do about it, Canadian Industry Minister James Moore,[Scrooge], replied: “Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? Is that always the government’s job to be there to serve people their breakfast?”
The Evolution of the Canadian Stamp
![From the "Penny Black" to the "Dollar Dreadful". [Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra announces the price of stamps will rise from 85¢ to 1$]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/19122013.jpg)
From the “Penny Black” to the “Dollar Dreadful”. [Canada Post CEO Deepak Chopra announces the price of stamps will rise from 85¢ to 1$]
Going Postal?
Now that Canada Post is stopping home mail delivery, Seniors and the disabled will have to walk to “super-mailboxes” to collect their mail. Canada Post CEO commented that seniors have told him that they want more exercise!
Flaherty will get you nowhere!
The Provinces are united in condemning Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and the Harper Conservative Government for refusing to implement plans to strengthen the Canada Pension Plan
Tim Hortons: Extracting the jelly from the doughnuts
A Tim Hortons franchise in Fernie B.C. has been accused of demanding cash repayment of overtime wages from its temporary foreign employees.
Flakes and Nuts
London Mayor Boris Johnson proclaims that the “cornflakes” with high IQs are bound to rise to the top when you “shake the box”in a “greed is good” themed lecture at the Margaret Thatcher Centre for Policy Studies.
Love of Money: Tax Fraud Games
Jim Love, Canadian Mint Chairman and advisor to the Federal Finance Department and to former Prime Minister Arthur Meighan, helped several wealthy Canadians transfer 8 million dollars to off-shore accounts in a tax-avoidance scheme
The ChangeLNG
Gordon Wilson, a former NDP MLA, now a Clark Liberal supporter, who has been sharply critical of liquid natural gas development, has been appointed by Premier Christy Clark to the plum position of LNG-Buy B.C. advocate
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