mercredi 30 mars 2016
CRA orders First Nations man to pay $190K in back taxes
An Ottawa man must pay more than $190,000 in back taxes despite an arrangement through an outsourcing company that he and thousands of other indigenous employees believed made them exempt from paying personal income tax on income earned off-reserve.
TV service complaints outnumber all others, Canadian regulator says
Canada's top telecom regulator gets more complaints about television service than it does about all other forms of telecom put together, the watchdog said in its semi-annual report yesterday.
Lululemon profit rises as sales top $2B for first time last year
Lululemon Athletica Inc. on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $117.4 million.
NewLeaf discount travel company gets clearance to start flying
Winnipeg-based NewLeaf Travel Company has been given clearance to begin offering low-cost flights in Canada.
Acts of terror are unlikely to stop business travellers hitting the road
LAST week this writer was presented with a dilemma. While preparing to travel to an event within walking distance of the recent suicide bombing in Istanbul, news broke of the attacks taking place in Brussels. Alongside the feeling of revulsion, a question briefly arose: should I travel to the site of one recent terror attack just as another is taking place?
Brussels caught the West's collective attention, but in many ways it is Turkey that gives more cause for alarm. The attack in Istanbul on March 19th was the fourth such incident this year. The grim truth is that it may well not be the last. As the BBC apocalyptically opined: “Turkey finds itself in the midst of a hideous vortex of overlapping security crises, struggling to tackle one without exacerbating another. With each bombing, the precariousness of Turkey's situation seems even more acute.”
Any doubt was momentary, however. Flights, meetings and hotels had all been booked. Despite the background threat there was no compelling reason not to travel. In the end it was no dilemma at all.
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IPhone builder Foxconn to buy Japanese electronics company Sharp for $3.5B
The Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones agreed Wednesday to buy control of financially struggling Sharp Corp. for $3.5 billion in the first foreign takeover of a major Japanese electronics producer.










