Foreigners, especially the billionaire type, can and have been setting up shell corporations through which to purchase Canadian real estate. The proposed measure will do nothing to stop this practice.
The measures proposed by the Canadian government are likely just political posturing and indented to "pull the wool over the eyes" of Canadian voters because the housing bubble/crisis has reached epic proportions and everyone is talking about it.
I completely agree, except I think trains have a much higher competitive range, possibly up to 1,000 km .
With a plane 1,000 km trip including all things you mention like arriving at the airport in advance, boarding, finding your way back to the city center, etc. would come easily to 4-5 hours when you calculate it door-to-door. This could be comparable to a train at 200-250 km/h.
Also, trains tend to be more punctual and less prone to delays compared to planes. And arriving in the city center as opposed to 40-50 kms out is a big advantage indeed.
Other countries should probably follow suit. Where I live the levels of Russian financed misinformation is intense and surreal. I don't mean just social media trolls which FB is awash with but also paid operatives working on the ground and in communities and instigating against vaccines, NATO, EU and other topics key to Kremlin backed propaganda.
Where I live (south of Europe) you can tell very easily what fruit or vegetables are in season:
1. They taste orders of magnitude better compared to when they are not in season (e.g. oranges when sourced from nearby Greece or Turkey, as opposed to ones shipped all the way from South Africa or Australia)
2. They are much cheaper to buy on local fruit and vegetable stands. Also, big chains like Lidl or Kaufland run good sales on them as well.
Maybe the goal of the Russian government was to block the Amazon and Google APIs in the first place, and they used Telegram as a convenient excuse. Just a thought.
I have a feeling the wealth distribution in the years prior to WWII was pretty similar to where we are or are headed. I wonder if there were comparable data/studies done back then.
It is not just the US. Canada in recent years signed a $15Bln contract to supply the Saudi Arabia rulers with weapons. (I was going to say 'government but 'rulers' feels more appropriate in this case).
Saudi Arabia is at war with Yemen and the war is causing the humanitarian crisis described in the above article.
Maybe this is because, as someone once put it, Americans don't see themselves as worse off. Rather, they see themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"?
Well, we can all argue one way or another about how relevant a CS degree would have been. The fact though that the profile was altered and other data deleted remains highly suspicious, if true.
There could be a basic minimum income level that is tax free. This would be very similar to what we have right now. For example, income under around 9,000 (or was it 10,000?) in Canada is not taxed federally.
The idea is to have everything taxed at the same rate: income, dividends, capital gains, whatever. So every source of 'money coming in' gets treated and taxed the same way.
By having a flat tax it doesn't make sense to shift 'money in' under different categories because all gets taxed the same rate.
So for example, income, capital gains, dividends would all be taxed at 10% or 15% or whatever.
"The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes because you just can't foresee the creative ways people will out maneuver the tax code."
I disagree. I simple flat tax rate where everything is taxed at a single rate would close every single one of the loopholes above, if only by making it moot.
The fact that the rich can maneuver themselves into a much lower tax rate than the average person presents a significant, unfair advantage in my opinion. A flat tax rate would make things much more equitable. Plus it would asimplify the tax code tremendously.
This has probably very little to do with porn and is most likely the first step in the UK's government attempt to track more closely who is accessing what on the internet and even have the power to blacklist and make inaccessible areas of the internet they deem inappropriate or inconvenient.
The enforceability of this is hugely questionable (they have heard of VPN right?) and the societal benefit of less porn is also hard to quantify asaik. Porn is not like hard drug use, cancer or drinking-and-driving where there is a definite and significant cost to society in terms of measurable harm etc.
The UK has a lot of issues to address currently with Brexit looming, so focusing on porn could also be a 'clever; political distraction from the pending mess Brexit is shaping up to be.
The article mentions 'increased competition'. Is Boeing facing a hard time competing against rivals say Airbus? Are Boeing's latest planes less competitive or is there less orders in the pipeline all across the industry, including at Airbus? I wish the article went into more detail here, this would have been informative.
Travelling in the US or with US airlines is not looking very good right now. Not just the United incident(s) but also TSA, Trump travel restrictions, flights constantly overbooked, massively late etc.
I wonder if it will start impacting traveller and tourism numbers at some point. I think anyone who doesn't really need to be in the US and/or is planning travelling with kids is likely to have some second thoughts at this point.
Yes, hoaxes especially like this one that end badly should be punished accordingly. At the same time the SWAT team is also responsible. After all, it was them who fired the bullets.
Note that in this case it was multiple bullets not just one as SWAT shot the innocent guy multiple times. It is not just a 'oopsie, we pulled the trigger by mistake, our bad' kind of a situation on their part either.
Back in my Econ classes we were taught that Libor was this atomic-clock-like gauge that objectively and impartially measures interest rates with absolute precision. Turns out that isn't exactly the case.
We know that some commercial banks that participated in rigging it - the article mentions about employees of Barclays who and got caught, convicted and jailed for rigging Libor. But if the Bank of England has exerted pressure one way or another on Libor the claim that it is a a 'precise' interest rate gauge determined by the 'free market' are starting to look increasingly more questionable.
I think we should let "the people" decide what is good for them, and not us doing it for them. Italy is a democratic country with a government and legal system that is upholding the laws. The court ruling appears to be in line with those laws, so i don't see a problem here.
Keep in mind, this is Europe and not the US. The argument "more car-based transportation at lower prices is good for everyone" is not necessarily something that the majority of the population in Italy or elsewhere in Europe is necessarily aspiring to. So if the government - at state and local level - is keeping the number of taxis in check by high taxes/fees while subsidizing green or mass transit, thats OK too. And the government of Italy has every right to do that. just my two cents.
The law should apply equally to everyone, regardless of how 'cool' you are considered to be.
If the law in Italy requires taxis and taxi-like services to to pay for certain operational licenses and to comply with certain government regulations, it is only fair that Uber and all other similar services should be expected to do the same. Uber does not pay or require their drivers to pay the licenses and comply with the regulations, hence the ruling.
The measures proposed by the Canadian government are likely just political posturing and indented to "pull the wool over the eyes" of Canadian voters because the housing bubble/crisis has reached epic proportions and everyone is talking about it.