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The research by scientists from Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Watershed Watch Salmon Society, and the Universities of Victoria and Simon Fraser is published in the journal "Public Library of Science ONE."
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The rapid growth of marine salmon farms over the past two decades has increased host abundance for pathogenic sea lice in coastal waters, and wild juvenile salmon swimming past farms are frequently infected with lice, the authors say.
"Given the high intensities of lice observed on some juveniles in this study - up to 28 lice on a single fish - there's an urgent need to understand the extent of threat posed by sea lice to juvenile Fraser River sockeye," said co-author Dr. Craig Orr of the Watershed Watch Salmon Society.
Sea lice on a juvenile salmon caught in the Georgia Strait (Photo by Daniel Beltra courtesy Greenpeace)
The scientists examined sea lice on migrating sockeye in an area of Canada's west coast between Vancouver Island and the mainland known as the Discovery Islands, taking samples in 2007. This region hosts the northeast Pacific's largest salmon farm industry, 18 active salmon farms, and also hosts one of the largest migrations of salmon in the world, primarily to and from the Fraser River.
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The new study contradicts the Canadian fisheries agency's statement that, "Juvenile sockeye that migrate past salmon farms in the Discovery Islands are significantly larger than pink salmon ... when they migrate into the ocean, well beyond the threshold for susceptibility to sea lice."
Sea lice can compromise regulation of fluid within the bodies of the host fish, induce behavioral changes that increase predation risk, reduce growth rates and, in sufficient numbers, result in host death. Sea lice also have been shown to serve as vectors for the spread of fish diseases.


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Contract dispute persists in court
A BITTER contract dispute between AJ Lucas and Gladstone Area Water Board continues to simmer.
The issue became public in May when truck drivers and earthmovers complained they had not been paid for work done under Lucas on the Curtis Island Sewerage and Water Infrastructure Project.
In recent months, the issue has played out in Brisbane Supreme Court where Gladstone Area Water Board and Lucas have been going head-to-head.
There is still disagreement between Lucas and GAWB about money owed between the parties. Lucas said it was committed to paying the subcontractors.
"Lucas is finalising all third-party creditor accounts as expeditiously as possible," a representative said.
The following is AJ Lucas' complete response to questions from the Observer;
Q1/ Does AJ Lucas still have outstanding payments for sub contractors on that project? How much?
Lucas is finalizing all third party creditor accounts as expeditiously as possible. This has been difficult as some subcontractor accounts have been complicated by a number of factors such as intervening insolvency, a third party Garnishee Order (to re-direct any payment), sub-subcontractor charges (also re-directing any payments due) and related claims or matters in dispute under the Head Contract defecting or rejecting work values claimed in relation to the third party project creditors' works.
Q2/ Is there a legal process underway to resolve this issue?
The parties under the Head Contract have entered into a formal Deed incorporating an expedited dispute resolution process to settle the final account before an expert panel. This process has commenced and is expected to take some time to conclude.
Further, Lucas has obtained a judgment debt of $2.5 million as against GAWB which Lucas would apply immediately to discharge third party project creditors if it could. However, GAWB has obtained a temporary Stay Order preventing payment of that judgment sum on the premise that Lucas could not repay the sum if it was paid. Lucas is demanding that GAWB make the payment. Notwithstanding the stay application by GAWB filed in Court, Lucas has made direct overtures to GAWB in an attempt to receive such funds so that third party project creditors can be paid as a priority. These settlement discussions are not assured of success.
Importantly, GAWB insists that the disputes between it and Lucas are separate and distinct from any sums owed to Lucas' third party project creditors. Conversely, Lucas insists that the disputes and issues complained of by GAWB directly concern the third party project creditors' works and as such the issues are directly linked.
Q3/ If AJ Lucas still owes money (and I am not sure if it does), can AJ Lucas guarantee that all payments will be made?
Lucas will meet its trading creditor commitments in the ordinary course of business.
At present Lucas and GAWB each insist the other owes it a substantial sum of money. From Lucas' point of view if the expert panel finds in its favour then all third party project creditors would be paid their respective monies due and Lucas would recover its project costs; however, GAWB has either denied the entitlement and/ or value of that relevant construction work.
Once again GAWB insists that the disputes between it and Lucas are separate and distinct from any sums owed to Lucas' third party project creditors. Conversely, Lucas insists that the disputes and issues complained of by GAWB directly concern the third party project creditors' works and as such the issues are directly linked.
The following comments came from GAWB Chief Executive Jim Grayson yesterday;
"We (ie GAWB and GRC) have been in Court with Lucas over various matters in recent months, including seeking to compel compliance by AJ Lucas with their commitment to pay creditors the $8m that was paid 'on account' by GAWB and GRC in June pending the resolution of the substantive matters in dispute. For clarity, this proceeding was finalised in August, and as a result of it we are satisfied that adequate proof has been supplied evidencing these payments by Lucas to its creditors. The other issues in Court relate to matters that are associated with the substantive issues in dispute that are to be resolved by an expert determination panel - it is not appropriate for me to make further reference to them as they are ongoing.
In relation to the questions posed by your first e-mail:
- We have previously said that there was an accelerated dispute resolution process that was agreed by the parties that is being pursued. This involved claims by AJ Lucas against GAWB/GRC and also claims by GAWB/GRC against AJ Lucas. We are significantly progressed in this process and my current hope would be for the outcomes of this process to be finalised in November. We have the ability and desire to achieve this, but this hope of course is dependent upon both parties' desire and ability to have the dispute resolved in the shortest reasonable period.
- In the legal proceedings that GAWB/GRC instituted to compel compliance by AJ Lucas with its obligations to creditors (arising from GAWB's/GRC's payment on account of $8m) affidavit material was filed by AJ Lucas advising that only two (2) creditors to which these obligations attached remain unpaid due to disputes (Brisbane Supreme Court of Queensland Proceeding 5767/12, Doc. 11, para 19 and 59 Affidavit of Peter Thomas - re creditors still owed money). Of those creditors I am aware that one itself is in Liquidation with debts relating to project related activities and non-project related activities.
- Question 4 - McCosker are progressing works on site at present, with some key milestones nearing completion.
For clarity none of GAWB/GRC's claims both from and against Lucas in any way affects the legal responsibility that AJ Lucas has to pay creditors as and when these debts are due for payment. Any suggestion of a linkage of both matters by representatives of Lucas (as I understood occurred historically) is incorrect."
The Dispute
- The dispute between Lucas and GAWB has left several small subcontractors in turmoil, most of them truck drivers and earthmovers.
- One significant Gladstone-based civil works company, which was owed millions of dollars by Lucas, has been forced into liquidation.
- The Curtis Island Sewerage and Water Infrastructure Project involves laying pipes from the mainland to the LNG projects on Curtis Island. The project is ultimately paid for by the LNG proponents. Gladstone Regional Council placed the project in GAWB's hands. GAWB subcontracted AJ Lucas, which in turn subcontracted several smaller operators to do the work. The dispute started when it became apparent subcontractors at the bottom of the chain were not being paid on time by Lucas.


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Globally and in Asia, demand for flexible workspace is rising. Over 2016 we expect flexible working operators to lease 20% more space in Hong Kong than Chinese groups took up in 2015; and they are expanding in Shanghai too. Landlords can expect higher demand for space, but must build relations with a new type of tenant. As occupiers, international flexible working operators should be competitive in Hong Kong and Singapore, but will find it tough to penetrate China. Landlords and investors alike should pay heed to flexible working operators' business plans, since over-expansion is a risk.
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Camron on 60 minutes: I wouldnt snitch on a serial killerPosted by Miss Info under Uncategorized
[24] Comments
watch the footage here….set your DVRs….
24 Responses to "Camron on 60 minutes: I wouldnt snitch on a serial killer"
bookie Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 1:54 pm
i think camron was right i feel as though if you telling you eating cheese, if u call da cops its still half of snitching because if u call the cops u might ass well tell the cop everything. in my hood and my books thats a big no no. so anybody thats disagree with it live your life as a snitch.just always remember no matter how much they say it will never come out believe me the next person will always know who told on them.
bookie Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
i forgot one more thing everyone in the world is not perfect and i go against killing and all but be realistic would u want somebody to tell on u think if u was going threw crisis. think about it
Sheki Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 2:02 pm
oh Geez!…I think this is IGNORANCE to the highest power. I think that some people don't realize or understand somethings until it happens to them. Now if Cameron's sister or some member of his family is a victim of a serial killer…I'm sure he would want someone who knows about it to do/say something. Pure Bullshit…I'm sorry if I may appear judgemental..but I can't understand the logic of this to save my life. I can't even blame his way of thinking on being a youth…because I think he's grown enough to know what he is saying is just pure Bullshit. Cameron get's a Bullshit degree from me.
Sheki Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 2:04 pm
oh Geez!…I think this is IGNORANCE to the highest power. I think that some people don't realize or understand somethings until it happens to them. Now if Cameron's sister or some member of his family is a victim of a serial killer…I'm sure he would want someone who knows about it to do/say something. Pure Bullshit…I'm sorry if I may appear judgemental..but I can't understand the logic of this to save my life. I can't even blame his way of thinking on being a youth…because I think he's grown enough to know what he is saying is just pure Bullshit. Cameron get's a Bullshit degree from me. The mentals is just plain FUCKED up…one more thing…"THANKS CAMERON YOU ARE NOW A TRUE TOUGH GUY"…LOL get the fuck outta here! His next album should be titled "THE MENTALITY OF A COWARD"…peace
IL WiL Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 2:04 pm
YO CAm MY DUDE but in certain situations u might have to tell the boys or handle dat like a grwon man and take care ofthe killer if he libing right next to u. u cant shit like dat happen like we across seas or . r.i.p va
Bunz Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 3:00 pm
F*ck you and your fcknn self righteous code of the mthafcknn street! That goes for all you punk ass ppl who give the hip hop and minority communities such a terrible and degrading image.
GenoBaby Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 4:40 pm
This snitching thing is gone too far in the hood. I think ppl are forgetting the actually meaning of snitching. A snitch is either a tattle or an informant… but i think ppl think reporting is also snitching which it's not. Now let's say for example you were the roommate of the VA Tech Killer and YOU KNEW what his plans were, can you really sleep a night knowing that you could have prevented over 30 INNOCENT ppl getting murdered in cold blood because of some foolish code of ethics. I know if someone were to go at Cam's family he would be singing a different tune rather than "it would hurt my record sales."
missinfo Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Genobaby….I totally agree, good points! In fact I think that alot of folks (faculty members and police) down at V-Tech are probably feeling like they should have done more because the killer was obviously disturbed, he was showing so many signs of mental illness, and they kept doing small things but still letting him roam free, and buy guns. sigh….as for Cam, i really cant blame him for this ignorance, we're all being reminded over and over dont snitch snitches get stitches etc. So of course, rappers think they have to follow the code of the streets…..even when their paychecks all come from a corporation. Not the streets, lol.
-Miss Info
Jaz Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Camron, you a talented artist and all that but I don't think you honestly thought about the questions you were being asked.
Put this into perspective: Imagine there's a guy out there raping and killing numerous 8 year old little black girls.
You so happen to know he is doing it and he will keep doing it. He lives next door to you. What do you do Mr Camron. Do you say: "Oh it's snitching so I wouldn't sing to the cops? Mr Camron you need to seriously Retract that statement because the whole world is looking at you and calling you very stupid my brother. That is not a good look. J…..Europe….
nbonez Says:
April 22nd, 2007 at 11:34 am
LoL that was the funniest fing ive seen in weeKs lol soz i gotta go watch dat agen LoL…. oh man dat funny , i know cam was creasin wid his boyz afta dat lol who wudnt do something if they knew a serial killah lived nex door init lol ud tell someonE obviously an d way d streets is it wud get back to dat persons mama who wud b str8 down the local po.po station init ?? lol i wudnt snitch but id let the hood know for sure ! its a either/ither situation the feds wud end up knowin anyway thru talk on road ! lol yo cam u a funny mofo lol big up missinfo each an everytime nuff raspect Braap one lv
tatiana Says:
April 22nd, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I think it's interesting that 60 minutes would pick Camron of all people to speak on this. He is probably the least inteligent rapper to ever come to the mic. He's also been on Bill O'Reilly to talk about why it's okay to call women bitches and hos. It's sad because things like this are seen by millions of people and they make hip hop seem like it only consists of ignorant fools who are just happy to have some diamonds and rims to show off. Just another attempt by the media to keep white people scared of rappers (and black people) for that matter.
loyd banks Says:
April 23rd, 2007 at 2:56 am
camrom is one of the dumbest person i've ever seen . he's stupid to the fullest degree ,how can he degrade hiphop and that makes what opera say come to ligth. wake up camron this world we live in is not perfect BUT .BUT. BUT IS A PREPOSITION
Sir AKA MrFreshTaDef Says:
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 am
everyone made a good point i'm in the army and to be honest if i was to go tell the police something they might have my back until the case is over but what about after ppl can get you killed in protective custody as easy as they can kill u at ur house they want you to help them but in my book they aint really lookin out to help you look at the sean bell thing look at all them shots the police made and then they flip it to where they wanna run around queens lookin for a forth person one of my peoples was one they grabbed and my homie is like a geek (lol) but they just wanted to find someone when i feel how can u find someone when u dont even know what the person look like its like a win lose thing if u ask me u will never get a good or bad thing out of it its could go both ways
Tyjigga Says:
April 23rd, 2007 at 4:32 pm
I'm like Chris Rock right now. I can't fucking defend hip-hop no more. At least not these ignorant ass rappers like Cam'ron and shit. Fuck man, this nigga is so goddamn muthafuckin stupid it boogles the fucking mind. How he can possible fucking say that he would never call the police because some goodamn "code". He is the reason why hip-hop get such a horrible fucking name. If this was all there was in hip-hop then I would pray for it's death.
rich Says:
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
yo diz shit is rediculous dis mothafucka is retarted…white people make guns and bullets? man how stupid can u be wit dat big gap in da middle of ya teeth u fool… thers certain shit dat u don snitch on..das petty shit but like if ma ppl got murked or ma fam fuk dat ima find out who did it and wen it happens to cam i wanna c wat dis dude duz cuz hes full of shit its all an image yo on da real
myke Says:
April 24th, 2007 at 12:11 am
If there is someone next door to u killing motha fucka for no reason u should tell the police … or take care of it yourself …. that shit aint apart of the GAME ! niggaz dont know the game …… CAM'RON dont know the game..that shit was so fucking dumb… U got regular people and u got people in the streets its a difference !
Kerry Says:
April 24th, 2007 at 1:13 am
I feel all what camron said but he should of kept it profesional because certin things he said and his way of sayin it(he do make us as black people look like when we get bread we get too pompous)(fuck it) …….Duke was wildin like for example with the whole serial killer shit. keep it real the serial killer live next door to u either niggas on the block is gonna handle it or the killer is ur friend……not only please snitchin is at a all time high right now niggas is snitchin and u wont even know with all these hotlines thats out now..
Ms. Sinnocent Says:
April 24th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
You know this is why white people tend to look at us minorities like we are of lower intelligence because of people like Cam. Sounding so ignorant! So you mean to tell me that if a rapist or child molester lived next to him he would just pick up and leave?And what if that rapist went on to rape a family member of his? Wouldn't he feel guilty knowing that he could have potentially stopped or detered it? All this "stop snitchin" or "snitches get stitches" shyt needs to stop because our youth is growing up listening and believing this and this won't have a pretty outcome.
ya boy Says:
April 24th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
damn i have to agree with mosta these comments-hate to say it cos "purple haze" was one of my fav albums,but cam REALLY isnt smart,he's plain ignorant.he's got me cringing when he's answering these questions. how can u justify not tellin the police where a serial killer lives? fuck codes and bullshit – it AINT snitchin, its innocent live saving. snitchin is rattin out somebody who u know, or someone u shdnt be rattin out for whatever reason. what favour du owe a serial killer u dnt know?i live for hiphop and the music but it's dumb shit like this that (rightfully) gives it such a bad reputation; how can you argue?! I couldnt have pointed it out better than my man above saying that with these "Codes of ethics" u couldn't snitch on the v tech shooter knowing what he was planning it because "it aint street, it'll damage sales…etc". i can honestly say that, in my opinion, the majority of rappers would not stop short of calling the police to give life-saving information.and i even think cam would do it,though bets are he stays anonymous,lol.1
Big Will Says:
April 25th, 2007 at 12:40 am
You know what kills me about these dude, is they really go on TV and interviews acting like they are right. Snitching is something that came about with gangster and if you commit a crime with them. Lil Kim is a idiot and So is Cam. I mean but the thing is these people are rich and they are playing on the intelligence of our youth, Sad, so Sad
CHYNA Says:
April 25th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Mike B Says:
April 25th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
"yo, i dont want to snitch. i like to see my community go down and lose value due to not snitching. i'm the average hood person. i am dumb…."
this is pretty much what cam is saying… although even he doesnt LIVE in the hood. dope and selling dope is played. people need to move on to better hustles.
SUKI Says:
April 25th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
This is what I think Hip Hop is promoting "No Snitching!" to the highest bitter because there has been so many murders and crimes within the Hip Hop community that they are scared of going down. Of course most of them will come out and promote the slogan so they wont go down with the rest of them. There is atleast 2 people in the "streetz" as they say that know about some rapper that did this or did that.
g-man Says:
April 29th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
This is total ignorance and this putsa bad light on the hiphop a bad rap. I mean how can you know a serial killer lives next to you and not call oneof those hotlines. I that the snitching was dealing withthe mafia and the druglords. but cam got no morals and just listento his ryhmes that says alot about him.


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BKW embraces a $21.9M budget and new board member
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Casting queue: Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central School District voters step up to each receive a number before entering the voting booths in the auditorium on May 20. Two-thirds of the voters approved a $21.9 million budget by 66 percent, and 80 percent approved a bus proposition. For school board seats, Vasilios Lefkaditis and Russell Chauvot had the most votes.
The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
The role of the school board was an issue raised when Vasilios Lefkaditis requested detailed calculations used by the Berne-Knox-Westerlo business office for contract negotiations with the Civil Service Employees' Association. Flanking him are board members Joan Adriance, left, and Gerald Larghe, right. Lefkaditis won another three-year term on the school board last Tuesday.
BERNE — Voters replaced Chasity McGivern with Russell Chauvot on the school board — Vasilios Lefkaditis retained his seat — and passed the $21.9 million budget proposal that aims to take money from non-teaching operations and spend it on academic performance at Berne-Knox-Westerlo.
The 2014-15 budget, passed 443 to 224, includes several new expenses, but uses the same $10.9 million tax levy as last year. Increased state aid, reductions in bus runs, and shared services contributed to the adoption of a spending plan that doesn't raise a larger amount of money from property owners but still spends 1.8 percent more than the 2013-14 year.
The bus proposition passed, 465 to 201. The total cost of the four new, mid-sized buses is $230,500, eligible for state aid reimbursement and paid for with $92,200 from reserve funds and a $138,300 five-year bond. Four other buses will be sold off.
In September, individual tax bills may vary from last year based on any changes in each municipality's tax roll. They will apply the veterans' alternative property tax exemption, new for the school district this year, which school officials expect will raise non-veteran property owners' taxes by 0.58 to 0.88 percent.
One of the most talked-over cost-cutting measures for the next school year was the consolidation of BKW's food services into one kitchen, saving money on salaries and benefits. BKW currently shares its food-services director with Greenville Central School District. The board also approved sharing the costs of its business office and an operations and maintenance supervisor as part of the new budget.
Calculations by the district total more than $1 million in new spending and $880,000 in savings from the new budget. It includes hiring 19 instructional employees.
The new spending is for one full-time secondary-school music teacher, a full-time computer-science and business teacher, a program that pays students to work on the district's technology support services, eight certified teachers as teaching assistants, one math teacher for additional academic support in the secondary school, expanding the hours of the elementary librarian, hiring a part-time science teacher to co-teach in the elementary school, training and coaching for teachers, a job coach for special-education students, hiring six part-time teachers' aids for the elementary school, and an additional class for each of nine secondary school teachers. The new budget also includes money for equipment repair.
To reduce costs, the district replaced six retiring teachers with less costly new staff, reduced two food-service positions to part-time, eliminated five bus runs with bus aids, shared its business official with Duanesburg, used Board of Cooperative Educational Services business services, and consolidated its operations and maintenance.
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Incumbent Lefkaditis, the board's most frequent dissenter, garnered 406 votes, McGivern had 329, and Chauvot had 477.
A total of 692 ballots were cast, nine of which were absentee ballots.
Asked about the turnout, Chauvot said, "I don't really have a good answer as to why that might be except for there's just not enough information out to the public. Those who are always involved in the community are involved and they get in to vote."
"Because there was a zero-percent tax levy increase, I don't think anyone was expecting a high turnout," Lefkaditis said.
Lefkaditis voted against the $21,921,272 budget, as he did the year before. He voted against the plan for consolidating food services, as well, saying too many questions were unanswered to be sure it would be safe.
"I think we put ourselves in a tight spot financially and I hope it works out in the long run," Lefkaditis said of the 2014-15 budget on Wednesday.
"As a voter, I'm happy that it passed, because I know that, whatever the school board came to in agreement with the school, or the administration, I'm assuming they're putting forth what they think is best for us," Chauvot said of the budget.
Lefkaditis, a manager for a real-estate equity firm, has been critical of the level of spending; pushing for more modest plans and adjusted calculations for assessing the impacts of settling contracts that have been lapsed for years.
Lefkaditis, along with Gerald Larghe, abstained from voting on the past two collective bargaining agreements, with Teacher Support Staff and the Teachers' Association. For both, other board members overrode his requests for special meetings to address what he said were inaccuracies in calculations.
The three-member majority that approved the contracts included McGivern, Earl Barcomb, and Joan Adriance.
At the May 12 board meeting, Lefkaditis requested a detailed presentation of the calculations used by the district as it negotiates an agreement with the final unit, the Civil Service Employees' Association.
"We can show data," said Lonnie Palmer, the interim superintendent. "What I don't want is for you to manipulate or change the data."
The motion passed with Lefkaditis, Larghe, and Adriance in favor. Barcomb and McGivern both abstained, telling The Enterprise that they didn't have an opportunity to ask questions when Lefkaditis called the question, a procedural measure that, after a vote, compels action, according to Roberts' Rules of Order. The board didn't vote on his calling the question.
Letters to the Enterprise editor in support of Lefkaditis in recent weeks praised his scrutiny as a board member.
"We don't need a rubber stamp, and that's true," Chauvot said of the board yesterday. "We need bits and pieces from each personality, but hopefully it can be moderated."
After an 18-year career in the United States Army, Chauvot works for The Research Foundation for the State University of New York as a trainer on computer applications for the state's Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.
He has had two children attend BKW, his own alma mater. His son, Alex, is a senior this year.
"I believe I probably garnered a little more support that way, because people knew me and hoping that what they know of me would be a reflection on the board itself, which, we talked about earlier, is bringing a bit of harmony to the board," said Chauvot.
In the next few months, Chauvot will take training as a school board member. Lefkaditis invited Chauvot, pending other members' approval, to join them in their meetings of executive session in the coming weeks before he takes his seat, starting a new three-year term, in July.
McGivern was sworn in just after the results were read on Election Night last year, to fill the vacated seat of Maureen Sikule.
McGivern, who hadn't posted roadside campaign signs, suggested not promoting her candidacy was a factor in her fewer number of votes. She said she would stay active in Sports Boosters, Bulldog Pride, and her effort as a school board member to pursue a grant through the United States Department of Agriculture. The Farm to School initiative would fund connections between local farms and the school's food services, McGivern explained in April, and enhance the school's curriculum.
Federal guidelines meant to introduce more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains into school meals have been attributed to decreased satisfaction in students nationwide.
Among the board's accomplishments during her year as a member, McGivern spoke of the two contracts that were settled and a budget development process that helped people participate.


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Victor Ryan is an Inuk lawyer from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador and a member of NunatuKavut. He joined Burchells in 2018.
Victor obtained his Bachelors in Journalism (High Honours) from Carleton University in Ottawa, with a minor in Political Science. He earned his Juris Doctor from the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, with a Certificate of Specialization in Law and Social Justice.
While at law school, Victor received the Brian Tsuji Graduating Award in law, offered to the student who has contributed the most to student affairs during their three years at law school. Victor was an associate editor at the UBC Law Review, President of Legal Education Outreach, and a UBC Law Student Ambassador.
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Sydney Waitley has given her dad, David, plenty of Father's Day presents over the years. But this year, she says there's no way to repay the gift he gave her just before Christmas — his own kidney.
"It was very emotional for me," says Sydney, 22. "He literally gave a piece of himself. I was so thankful, and also so glad."
The surgery at Sharp Memorial Hospital was just another chapter in the family's remarkable history. Sydney is one of four identical quadruplets, the odds of which are somewhere around 1 in 11 million. When the girls were born, David and his wife, Heidi, already had three daughters at home, so the couple found themselves parents to seven daughters — all under the age of 8.
The quadruplets were born three months early at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns — weighing only about 2 pounds each — and spent three months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Doctors were initially concerned about Sydney's kidney function, but it improved by the time she and her sisters went home.
Sydney felt healthy until she went away to college a few years ago. Before classes even started, she grew seriously ill and was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease.
She moved home to focus on her health, and it soon became clear she would need a transplant. Though her sisters were willing to donate, Sydney's father stepped up to spare his daughters from undergoing the donor surgery.
"It was an easy decision for me," says David, 54. "I think most parents would cherish the opportunity to give."
David was one of 31 living donors who gave a kidney in 2016 at Sharp Memorial, which performs more of these procedures than any other hospital in San Diego.
Nationwide, nearly 100,000 people are in need of a new kidney. Without living donors, people with kidney failure often wait five to 10 years for an organ from a deceased donor, some dying during the wait.
The benefits of living donation are numerous. Besides shortening the wait time for others on the organ waiting list, long-term survival rates for patients are significantly better for transplants from living donors compared with transplants from deceased donors.
Sydney says her transplant experience inspired her to go into the medical field, and she recently completed training to become an emergency medical technician (EMT).
"I'm so thankful that I am alive and that my dad was part of that," Sydney says.
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|Riyaz Dattu says the whole area of government procurement is contentious and Trump's executive order makes it even more so.
In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's latest trade-related executive order it seems the ability for Canadian companies to continue trading as usual is in question and some may be contemplating setting up shop south of the border.
At his press conference in Wisconsin last week, Trump zeroed in on Canadian dairy producers using anti-NAFTA rhetoric. Now the U.S. Commerce Department has hit softwood lumber imports with duties ranging from three to 25 per cent.
"Canada should brace for a lengthy trade dispute with the U.S. on softwood lumber because of the entrenched positions on both sides of the borders," says Brenda Swick, lawyer with Dickinson Wright LLP in Toronto.
Swick has represented clients in numerous government contracting disputes. She says "this is a perennial dispute and will eventually be resolved through an agreement though at greater costs for Canada perhaps this time."
All the uncertainty is extremely "unhelpful" for planning purposes for businesses, and there are a number of areas of great concern to Canadian businesses, says Riyaz Dattu, partner, international trade and investment law at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.
After the presidential inauguration in January, Dattu said he received calls from clients asking if they needed to move their business into the U.S. to stay competitive. Dattu says the "Buy American" plan adds another layer of complexity for businesses trying to sell into the U.S. market to governments. For example, a component of the Order singles out the steel industry, directing a review of procurement rules favouring U.S. companies to see if they are actually benefiting from the existing "Buy American" provisions.
"Initially we said 'hold off' but the evidence is mounting that over the next few years things are going to be in flux. The whole area of government procurement is most contentious and this makes it even more so," he says.
His phone began ringing more this week with questions on procurement rules and concern on higher levels of trade enforcement. Customs enforcement is also becoming stricter.
"For business looking at what side of the border should they invest with in all the uncertainty things are puling in the direction of the U.S. at this point in time," he says.
The faster Trump moves, the more uncertain Canadian suppliers are becoming.
"It's pretty clear we're not quite at 'tear up the agreement' but we're certainly more than 'tweak' right now in his eyes," says international trade and customs lawyer Dan Ujczo of Dickinson Wright based in Columbus, Ohio.
"Be careful what you ask for is the message here — we wanted them to take a very rational approach but now it's very data driven and that's going to be creating evidence for these negotiations and for the U.S to take unilateral action."
Ujczo says issues such as dairy and lumber are "the last bastion of protectionism" — 20th century trade fights, or in the case of softwood lumber a 19th century trade fight. Last week's "Buy American, Hire American" edict from Trump has set a chilling tone when it comes to how foreign bidders and suppliers will factor into Trump's America.
The "Hire American" focuses on guest worker programs, particularly, the H-1B visas for highly skilled workers. Last week's executive order calls for a multi-agency review for changes to the program.
"Any of those issues around supply management and procurement are areas the administration is going to point to. Anytime Canada says we want access to the U.S. market, we want free trade, the U.S. is going to point to that," he says.
There are several problematic areas Canadian businesses must consider if they are looking to continue doing business with the U.S. For example, the rules of origin to qualify for tariff free treatment. Dattu says there are "clear signals" those rules are going to change.
"The rules of origin is an area of concern because supply chains have been built up over the last 23 years under NAFTA based on certain content requirements and transformation requirements from components to finished products," he says. "That was going to be a very problematic issue for many companies built on North American and international supply chains."
The rules of origin apply for exporting product into the U.S. to get free tariff treatment. That would be the case for non-government as well as government purchases.
"They need to know whether their goods will qualify under the rules of origin and whether they will meet any waivers under free trade agreements with the Buy American provisions," Dattu says.
As well, there will be tighter procurement rules and greater emphasis on enforcement of trade laws and immigration rules will also become tighter.
Ujczo says the biggest risk to Canadian companies is for those in a supply chain where it's going to be a U.S. company bidding on the project and they are supplying that customer.
"What you will start seeing is U.S. companies saying 'We can't have those Canadian suppliers in our supply chain.' Canadian companies may have to look at whether it makes sense to set up operations in the U.S. We saw that after the Obama stimulus package — a number of Canadian companies picked up stakes and moved a component of production to the U.S."
But setting up shop in the U.S. is not necessarily an easy decision for Canadian companies to make with the low loonie. And, by tightening the immigration programs Canadian companies use to go into the U.S. it's going to make it very difficult.
There are now strong disincentives for a U.S company to use Canadian supplier.
Ujczo says it is "imperative" that the Trudeau government look at the NAFTA renegotiation in a new way.
"Instead of talking about it terms of how much stuff Canadians buy from the United States, or 'We're you're largest export market' — the message should be that 'We're the world's most integrated trading relationship and so we're different than any other relationship the U.S. has'," he says.
Dattu adds that not only does one need to be concerned about the federal government rules but each state has their own rules. Recently Ontario was able to convince New York state not to pull back on the exemption for Ontario on the New York State rules of procurement.
"That was seen as a big win for Ontario, but what [Buy American] does for the federal government may increase incentive for some state level governments to be more protectionist. Many of the infrastructure projects the federal government funds for states such as highways require a certain amount of U.S. content," he says.


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It's such a fun game to play with babies and tots. "I've got your nose!" you say playfully, after you've made a gentle swipe. To prove you've really snatched their proboscis, you hold up your hand, curled in a fist, with your thumb sticking up in between your pointer and middle finger. Your thumb, of course, is supposedly the baby's nose. Alas, while this game is common in the U.S., Australia and Canada, it's never played in Turkey. In that country, the hand gesture, commonly known as "the fig," is like calling someone an unprintable name [source: Peters]. It's also quite insulting to people in Indonesia, Italy, India, China and Russia [sources: Language Trainers, Link].
This gesture hails back to ancient times, when the Romans used it to indicate sexual union. In a positive manner, that is — to wish someone good luck and fertility. It also was seen as a protective measure against the evil eye. The Romans called the gesture mano fico, or fig hand, as they felt the thumb-in-fist looked like a woman's private parts. "Fica" is Italian for fig, and also slang for vulva; Romans equated figs with female fertility [source: Symbol Dictionary]. Interestingly, the gesture is also the same used for the letter T in American Sign Language [source: Language Trainers]. Oops.


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Mark Cuban is so upset about officiating in the NBA that he's even calling out refs not working Dallas Mavericks games these dayas.
Cuban had some harsh words for official Ken Mauer on Wednesday, calling for the league to discipline the ref that missed a blatant double-dribble in the opening possession of Tuesday night's Brooklyn Nets/Los Angeles Clippers game. Mauer later drew the ire of Clips coach Doc Rivers in overtime, who was ejected for basically losing his mind on the officiating crew in overtime.
Cuban said during a pregame workout chat with reporters that he's on Doc's side on this one.
"Suspend him, demote him, make him ref a game in the D-League," Cuban said during his pregame workout Wednesday night.
Cuban declined to mention Mauer by name, simply saying to watch the video that went viral of Nets shooting guard Bojan Bogdanovic's blatant double dribble that went uncalled and see which referee is staring at the play.
Cuban said that kind of officiating error isn't a judgement call, and the NBA should be more vigilant with its officials making mistakes so blatant and in close proximity to the play itself.
"That call? At the beginning of the game? Right in front of him?" Cuban said. "That wasn't an error in judgment.
"Refs are going to miss things because there's other things going on, but there was nothing else going on. It was the first or second play of the game, and he was standing right there."
Cuban is obviously no stranger to criticizing officials in his time as Mavs owner. But this is one of the rare times he's courting fines in response to something that didn't happen to him and his team. That's usually a pretty good sign that something truly went wrong. Cuban was asked why he was commenting on a non-Mavs ref screwup, and he responded with a pretty convincing argument.
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CIt's been four years since the release of Santigold's sophomore album, 2012's Master of My Make-Believe. An insatiably curious multi-disciplinary artist, Santi has remained busy since then with touring, writing, collaborating on a makeup line with Smashbox Cosmetics, appearing on The Office, and even giving birth to her son Radek in 2014. Ahead of the release of her new album, 99¢, the singer sat down with Paper to discuss the commercialization of art, the challenges of being a musician and a mom, and how she stays true to her voice.
Were there any specific sources of inspiration -- even things in different mediums like film or visual arts -- that informed this album?
There wasn't one thing that informed this record. I put my other record out in 2012, toured it until 2013, and then did a couple of other things. I like to give my mind a fallow period, a break from music where I just get to revitalize. I can't imagine if I just went straight into the next record; there's no time for growth or perspective.
During the time when I was pregnant, I was working on music really slowly. I recorded a couple of songs, and then I had my son. About two months after that, I started working on music again. I was listening to the lyrics and it seemed like I was writing a lot about what it felt like to be an artist in this cultural climate where everyone is so focused on marketing themselves all the time. It's not a way that I'd like to be as an artist, interacting with that type of self-promotion all the time, especially since it probably takes as much -- or more -- time as doing the art! So, I was like, "Oh, this is what my record's about."
Also, because I had just had my son and it's my third record, I started to get an idea of how to direct the process better. I was like, "If I'm going to keep making music, it's going to be fun for me." A lot of the things I talk about are so absurd that it's funny, and I decided to approach it from that angle, where it was this playful, fun way to get into this subject.
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What do you think is behind this commercialization of music?
I think there are several causes. I think one of the causes is the fact that technology is moving at such an insane pace that we are not really developing our perspective as quickly as the technology is developing. As far as the music with all these streaming services goes, there are a couple of things at work. First of all, everybody has access to everything at once. And they're not paying for it, really. I think that changes the way that people interact with music, for sure.
Also, as an artist, you end up spending so much time making content and hardly any time making music. There's no way you can put out good music that quickly. First of all, if you're doing that, most likely you're not writing your music. Which is totally fine, but it's a different type of music. It's kind of like factory line music. The songs are great –- people love those types of pop songs. But it's just a totally different type of music than the type of music I make and that a lot of artists make. So, it kind of puts us out of this equation, which I think is sad for the landscape of what pop music is. Because we end up getting the same types of songs over and over again. You just can't put out quality that quickly, especially when you've got to tour and hustle to make money -- because you're not making money from selling your records. It's a strange time. And these are some of the things I deal with in my record. I guess that's what inspired me: my experience as an artist.
How do you find that balance of making a living, but also being true to your voice as an artist?
The main thing for me is just making sure the music is uncompromised. I make sure that I carry out my exact vision in my music. I talk about what I want to talk about, it sounds exactly like I want it to sound. And then, as a working musician, I play the game to get my music out there. So, I make the music that I want to make and then I get it out there how I can. By incorporating the topics that I want to talk about, it's like holding up a mirror to society and saying, "This is what we look like right now. Does it look as absurd to you as it does to me?" I think art is traditionally always a catalyst for propelling culture forward by basically holding a mirror up to it and then helping direct it. And I feel like that's one thing that I can do in my art that's really important to me.
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You mentioned before that having your son in your life has brought a new energy to your music. Outside of that, has becoming a mother changed the way you think about art or the role that art has in your life?
There's the practical answer -- which is probably not the one you're thinking about -- but, as an artist and as a mother, it's even more important to figure out how to make a living at your art. So, the issues that I'm talking about are really, really important to me right now because I do want to keep making music and I do want to be able to continue doing this as my main career, and there are a lot of things that make it really hard. Like, I've got to take my son on tour, you know? And I was like, "How do people do this?" I haven't even talked about how insanely crazy it is to be rolling out a record and doing photos and press and endless content with a less than two year old.
Oh, my god, I can't even imagine.
I was looking online and I was like, "How do you people bring cribs in a tour bus?" First of all, you can imagine that there's hardly anything on that online! And then the only things I could find were people who are like, "I customized my tour bus and had it specially built so it could incorporate the crib." So, you know, these are the real life challenges that I face every day. I'm an artist at this level and I'm trying to do some stuff, but there are not many guidebooks for the things I have to figure out.
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Beyond the logistics of it, has it also shifted things on a philosophical or intellectual level?
There are certain things -- like, obviously, I care about his future, which means I care about the future of everything. I care about the earth more than ever. I know this sounds crazy, but I know I'm not the only mom who's looked at her son sleeping and thought, "Oh my god, I hope he doesn't have to live through a Terminator end of the world." I cared beforehand about all these things and I feel like my music has always been music with a message about the world and about humanity and about fear and about power.
There is one song on my record called "Big Boss Big Time Business," in which I call myself "mama" through the whole song. And it's really about how badass I have to be to handle my life as an artist and be a mommy at the same time. That's about as close a step as I get to it topically. Because, really, it's my one chance to be back in my own world. It's my space, you know? I get to be all the way for me and just in my own headspace. As a new mother, that's probably the only place I get to do that. So, I feel like I go into that place and it's a little bit separate from everything else.
Sometimes it can be hard to reconcile making art for oneself and also wanting to save the world. How do you personally reconcile pursuing your own artistic vision and also caring so much about these broader issues?
I've actually thought about it a lot because I have done other stuff for various causes –- like in 2010 I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro for clean water awareness and I did a Save the Music thing in New Orleans. I love doing stuff like that; I really love doing more hands-on stuff. And, one day, as I was driving to the studio, this woman came up to my car and asked for money. And I was like, "Man, I'm so full of shit." I'd just been in my own world working on music. There are so many things going on in the world and I'd just kind of tuned out. But everybody has their own purpose in the world and it's really important for you to know what yours is. I do other things, but I think one of my greatest gifts is my ability to reach people through my music.
The more people come back to me to tell me that my music has inspired them for different reasons, that's what lets me know that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing to help make change. Even if I can help a little girl feel comfortable in her own skin or know that you're worth more than just your appearance -- that's huge. Music is so powerful, and it's not just on a lyrical level where the message lies. Sometimes you can just feel a way when listening to something and, off that feeling, you can go and do something great.


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APPLE cut its last remaining non-proprietary physical standard from its new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, which was announced yesterday in San Francisco.
Gone is the 3.5mm headphone jack. Instead, the new EarPods that come with the new models plug into Apple's proprietary Lightning port. A 3.5mm earphone jack adapter comes free with the new phones.
Apple has also launched its first wireless headphones, the AirPods (S$238), which have a five-hour battery life and come with a charging case.
The home button is still there but it no longer has any moving parts. Screen size remains unchanged, as do physical dimensions, although both models are a few grammes lighter than their predecessors. Storage memory now starts at 32GB, and goes up to 256GB for the first time.
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The iPhone 7 makes do with a single 12-megapixel rear camera with optical image stabilisation, a new lens, flash and image processor. The iPhone 7 Plus adds an additional 12-megapixel rear camera, which gives more zoom options. This is Apple's first dual-camera product. Both models sport new 7-megapixel front cameras.
A new main processor helps give the iPhone 7 Plus up to an hour more battery life than the 6s Plus, while the iPhone 7 gains up to two hours of battery life over the 6s.
Singtel, M1 and StarHub have all confirmed that they will start selling the new iPhone models on Sept 16, and are now letting users register their interest online (Singtel, M1, StarHub). The new iPhone models will start at S$1,048 from Apple without a contract.
Apple has also updated its smart watch. Most of the improvements in the Apple Watch Series 2 are internal, and the regular models look very similar to the ones that they replace, with the same 38mm and 42mm case sizes.
An exception is the new Apple Watch Nike+ model, which features special watch bands, along with exclusive virtual watch faces and Siri voice commands.
Apple's collaboration with Hermes has also been updated with a new band design. The Double Cuff in Swift and Epsom calfskin leathers will cost S$2,328. The Single Tour style also gets a new Deployment Buckle option (S$2,188). Existing Hermes band options will remain.
Gone though are the Yellow Gold and Rose Gold Apple Watch Edition models, the most expensive of which cost S$25,500. A single ceramic model replaces them at S$1,818.
Fitness buffs will welcome 50m of water resistance across all Apple Watch Series 2 models, along with built-in GPS, which will make the smart watch more useful standalone.
The price of admission to the Apple Watch Series 2 will be S$548 for both 38mm aluminium and stainless steel cases - S$30 more than the previous cheapest Series 1 model. The Series 1 will continue to be sold, but with an entry price of S$398 - a S$120 price drop.
Orders for all Apple Watch Series 2 models start now, with availability on Sept 16 with the exception of the Apple Watch Nike+, which will be available in late October.
The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus launches come on the heels of Samsung's latest and greatest, the Galaxy Note 7, which went on sale here last month.
"Apple's new products match, rather than exceed, the technological envelope already created by competitors in the audio and mobile accessories markets," said IHS Technology senior analyst Paul Erickson.
Ian Fogg, IHS Technology's head of mobile analysis, said: "Apple needs the iPhone 7 to be a major success because it is the main driver of growth for the whole company."
"The iPhone drives acquisition for Apple's entire ecosystem, supports up-sell of Apple Watch, Macs and iPads," Mr Fogg added. "The more iPhones Apple sells, the larger the addressable audience for accessories such as Apple Watch Series 2."
Apple shares closed at US$108.36 on Wednesday.
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The near hysterical debate over the small-business taxation demonstrates a simple truth: Canada's tax system has become mind-numbingly complicated. Maybe, just maybe, it's time to consider more-complete reform.
The current system is plagued by huge differences in how different types of income are taxed. It's riddled with complexities and inequities. Taken together, those problems are driving the current rush among Canada's big earners to incorporate themselves.
Ottawa is absolutely right to take issue with this trend. Among other absurdities, the current rules allow the owner of an incorporated small business to pay substantially less tax than the owner of an identical small business that isn't incorporated, even though both earn the same amount of money.
This is not the way taxation is supposed to work in Canada. You shouldn't get a big reward from the taxman simply for doing the same thing but inside a different economic wrapper.
But the government's attempts to crack down are ham-handed. And that reflects how difficult it is to tinker with a system that has grown into a labyrinth designed to discourage anyone except the bravest tax accountant.
Consider, for instance, income sprinkling – the entirely legal practice in which the owner of a Canadian-controlled private corporation passes on income to other adult family members by paying them dividends. If those other family members don't have much in the way of earnings – if they're university students or a stay-at-home spouse, for example – they pay very little tax on the money they receive.
Ottawa wants to rein in the practice, most notably by looking at whether the amount received is reasonable compensation for what the family member has contributed to the business. But determining what constitutes reasonable compensation would pose endless problems, observes Kevyn Nightingale, a partner at the accounting firm MNP LLP.
What would happen, for instance, if a woman comes up with a brilliant idea for a business, her sister executes it, while a brother figures out how to make the product substantially more efficient? Or if parents lend their tech-genius kid a vital few thousand dollars that enables him to start a company that unexpectedly turns into a huge success?
Making the problem even worse is that the whole point of income sprinkling is to spread out earnings to low-income, lightly taxed family members. This means the amounts involved typically aren't huge. "How does one reasonably determine that a person's contributions are worth $30,000, $40,000 or $50,000?" Mr. Nightingale asks.
The questions become even more complex in the case of Ottawa's two other proposed reforms. Government wants to reduce the incentive to use private corporations as tax-sheltered piggy banks for large amounts of passive investments that aren't directly tied up in running a business. In addition, it aims to make it tougher for the owner of a private corporation to enjoy a lower tax rate simply by converting regular income into capital gains.
Both proposals are eminently reasonable in concept, but they come with enough ambiguities to fuel years of debate and litigation. "This is adding a huge amount of complexity onto a system that is already complex," Jack Mintz of the University of Calgary told a conference this week.
What's the payoff for all that angst? The government says it does not know the exact figure. But the impact on federal revenues is likely to be small; the income-sprinkling measure, for example, is expected to yield only $250-million. Stacked up against Ottawa's $315-billion annual budget, the potential rewards seem inconsequential to many analysts. "These proposals involve a great deal of added complexity and uncertainty for a small gain in equity and revenue," Mr. Nightingale says.
Others disagree. Kevin Milligan of the University of British Columbia argues that it's important for the tax system to maintain neutrality – in other words, for government not to push people to package their economic activities into different shapes simply as a way of avoiding tax.
Prof. Milligan and others point out that the private-company structure delivers the greatest benefit to high earners. It deviates from the guiding principle that people who earn the same amount should pay the same amount of tax. Left unchecked, the current trend toward incorporation risks creating a two-tiered system – a flexible, low-tax one for people who can take advantage of incorporation and a much sterner, higher tax one for those who can't.
But all of that brings us back to the case for wider reform.
At the moment, Canadian-controlled private corporations pay a special, low rate of tax on their first $500,000 in active business income thanks to what is known as the Small Business Deduction. This results in an effective combined federal-provincial tax rate of 10.5 to 18.5 per cent – which just happens to be the lowest such rate in the G7.
Other business income is taxed at a general rate that is much more onerous – 26 to 31 per cent. But even that looks like a mad bargain next to personal tax rates. Levies on the biggest earners have surged in recent years and top marginal rates now nudge 54 per cent in Ontario and several other provinces.
Given this pyramid of pain, there has been a growing and overwhelming motivation for people to arrange their affairs so that as much income as possible is taxed at the small-business rate rather than at the personal rate. This has resulted in a boom in incorporation – and also increasing concern that the growing swarm of private corporations are being used primarily as tax shelters rather than for their intended purpose of providing an effective vehicle for a growing business.
An ideal system would simplify the tax code and remove the need for elaborate manoeuvres designed to shuffle dollars from one income bucket to another. Most importantly, it would provide incentives for companies to grow.
The boldest idea would be to abolish the small-business deduction. Having only a single corporate tax rate with no preferential rate for smaller enterprises might infuriate Canada's small-business lobby, but it would go a long away to simplifying Canada's byzantine tax structure.
It would also remove a disincentive to growth. At the moment, companies that are nudging up against the $500,000 income limit have a strong motivation to split into smaller units to avoid paying a higher tax rate. This can result in a proliferation of small companies that are too tiny to ever achieve economies of scale. They're primarily tax shelters rather than growth vehicles.
A move to a single corporate tax rate could be sweetened by reducing personal or corporate tax rates. The small-business deduction now costs the government $4.1-billion a year. Eliminating it would give Ottawa room to bring down rates elsewhere or to introduce incentives aimed at small companies that are actually growing.
To be sure, moving to a single tax rate for all corporations may be a fantasy in the current political climate. Dr. Milligan argues that, for now, policy makers have to focus on making the current proposals work by finding ways to reduce their administrative burden.
He suggests balancing the reforms with measures that would do more for companies that actually want to grow. For instance, firms could be allowed to immediately expense a certain amount of capital investment annually rather than deferring the depreciation deductions. "This gives an advantage to smaller firms, and the advantage is directly targeted where we want it: incentives to grow investment," he said.
For his part, Dr. Mintz believes several alternative policies would have been preferable to Ottawa's current proposals. For instance, he would have favoured moving to a single corporate tax rate, such as Britain introduced in 2015. But he argues that even more sweeping changes are needed to address issues ranging from double taxation of savings to how the tax system handles risk. "These reform proposals should have been put in the context of major reform," he told the Calgary conference.
Exactly. The most positive thing to emerge from the current firefight would be a commitment to a wider rethinking of a system that has grown too messy, too complex, for anyone's comfort.


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To usher in this popular festival, Airtel has come up with an exciting offer for its customers and their children where in Airtel Santa will personally deliver X'mas messages to your loved one's.
From today till December 24th all customers have to do is visit Airtel Relationship Centre (ARC) at various locations and leave a message with Santa Claus for their loved ones.
On the day of X'mas, Airtel Santa would deliver the message along with an Airtel goodie bag to the person to whom the message has been sent.
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The procedurally-generated, world-building, space-sim multiplayer sandbox genre has gotten a little out of control on Steam Early Access. It's like a great swarm of developers looked to something abstract and inherently unwieldy in an effort to bring it down to Earth and let players dissect it as they please. While some of these titles have incredible fan support and extremely passionate developers, launching one of these games can be an ordeal unto itself, and keeping things organized and intuitive ultimately winds up being a challenge.
Still, if you measure each project by its self-satisfying excitement and the breadth of its reach, you'll find a lot to love in the sheer determination some developers have in throwing the kitchen sink at players. Look to Steam Early Access title Space Engineers and you'll find exactly that. With servers already filling up, there will be no shortage of unique, splintering worlds that continue to differentiate themselves, driven only by the player's own imagination and ability to wrestle with controls.
Space Engineers started in 2002 when developer Marek Rosa wanted to provide players with an outer-space sandbox that could support "dynamic structures in a grid-like environment, with realistic physics and realistic volumetricity." If that sounds like a mouthful, it's because the design quickly became complex. The game uses real-world science and NASA technology as a basis for its worlds, and if you're not careful, you could jetpack yourself far off into empty space and not even Alfonso Cuaron can bring you back.
You can equip several different tools and items as you explore rocks floating in space. You'll used the WASD keys to move forward, backward, left, and right, but inertial dampening devices will allow you to turn off the momentum that might catapult you too far one way or another. In all honesty, struggling with this system of movement proved to be the most frustrating thing in my brief hands-on time, second only to having little to no clue as to where I was supposed to go or what I was supposed to do.
Space Engineers presents the truest sandbox experience I've ever set foot in, but it's up to you and your friends to make it interesting and entertaining. You can focus on construction or combat. You can blow up asteroids or fly your ship around trying to hit fellow explorers like little space bugs. You can set a bomb on someone else's ship. You can play with computers or add to the game by building new worlds for the Steam Workshop platform.
Space Engineers might have a long road of development ahead, but the emphasis on freedom is generally liberating if you can accept the responsibility that comes with it. If you want to be a jerk to others on a server, prepare for consequences. If you want to look for a team to build something exciting, that can happen too, but the most important element I can stress is that it takes time and dedication to get anything out of Space Engineers.
However, don't expect to hop online for 15 minutes in between matches of Counter-Strike. The developers themselves admit that players will likely skirt around combat to focus on creating war machines that do battle for them: "Space Engineers shouldn't be about troops; it should be about the machinery you build." As such, it's no surprise that "everything in the game is subject to change." In a way, that's perfect for the Early Access model, given that players have every opportunity to help shape the experience and drive development going forward.
You can download and play Space Engineers right now via Steam. The title costs $19.99 and the developers also offer a 4-pack for you and your friends at $59.99.