As for capital losses, tools to reduce capital gains, they can be carried back three years to reduce tax previously paid, or used in any future year. That means for 2024 (before the latest change) or ...

It’s been a rough year for our dollar aka ‘the loonie’. As seen in the chart below, the CAD/USD has been trading in a range ...

Kid Pogey goes from $7500/spawn on average in 2024 back to 1978 Family Allowance in 2024 dollar to $1450/spawn. That’ll save ...

“Count your blessings.” Blessings? What a concept! Hmmm… You mean, like, holiday pay? Paid sick days off? Any living wage at all? The Amazons who run this blog get none of those. Merry Xmas, Scrooge. ...

Yes, by bad policy. And thus we have a complex web of conflicting, uncoordinated, kneejerk, badly-understood policies that ...

Care to start a riot? Just suggest to someone who has saved nothing but paid their house off that real estate capital gains should be taxed. Blood and guts everywhere. But, we need to talk. The tax ...

When this week started indigent visitors to this pathetic blog roasted me for saying Canadian house prices would decline by 15%, then go limp. Too little!, they cried. As the week ended, hoary posters ...

As asset-class heterogeneity and complexity increases and when price discovery gets less transparent, it creates opportunities which astute managers can exploit. In these instances, active solutions ...

We know the muck is piling up in Ottawa. We know there’ll be an early election. We know who will win. But after that? Will houses become affordable and the kiddos stop whining and moaning? Nah. Not ...