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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…

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 …

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 aw…

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.…

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 appro…

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"?

It feels like the ruling is essentially stating the obvious.

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 suspici…

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 Ca…

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 havi…

"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 rat…

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 …

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 …

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,…

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…

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 …

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 th…

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 operati…

As a side note, the term "Byzantine empire" does not reflect how people called it or thought of it at the time of its existence at all. They referred to it as the (Holy) Roman Empi…

"But that's a moot point if the light isn't there in the first place." When I said "traffic light" I meant the entire set of traffic lights of the intersection. You can't have just…

The set up described in the article is actually equivalent to "come to full stop, then right turn only". You cannot replace the light with a sign because by law traffic lights have…

The article makes the mistake of talking about France and Germany and maybe Spain and then of generalizing it to mean "Europe". There are in fact lots of other countries in Europe,…

If iOS has 17% of the market, having 12-15% is not something to be ashamed of. It still represents billions upon billions of business every year. Sometimes its better to set realis…