Knowledge is power -how did we do ?

A easy to use  useful interactive tool that  makes comparisons easy for competitive reviews of city or community services.  Objective information , third party administered makes performance benchmarking easier

 New Web Site Graphically Presents the Finances of 130 Municipalities
As of December 3, 2010, the Frontier Centre's living database of municipal financial statistics contains graphically presented data and comparisons of municipal finances. Frontier's David Seymour explains why you cannot have it three ways at once with any business, including Crown corporations.

This is a useful tool to compare results of the communities we live in :

http://www.lgpi.ca./report/ontario/brantford/2009

As we are moving into the new council and new budget process ,maybe this information can be used to do even better . It is our community to grow and together make it prosper .

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A tax saving strategy that helps charities

Worth a look   http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/tax-matters/a-donation-strategy-to-help-shelter-income/article1821238/

 

In the 2000s, tax shelters evolved and donation tax shelters became the rage. Many were buy-low-donate-high schemes where you'd purchase something for one price then donate it to charity and receive a donation receipt for a much higher value. The Canada Revenue Agency isn't exactly thrilled about these.

Interestingly, not all donation tax shelters should be painted with the same brush. Some are different. Some legitimately help charities.

Recent tax saving structure There's a donation tax strategy, designed by EquiGenesis Corp. and their legal team, that is worthy of some mention. Over the past seven years since it was first introduced, it has distributed $14.7-million to charities in Canada, with significantly more expected over the next decade.

Now, before I go on, I want to emphasize that this strategy does come with tax risk. There's the likelihood that the CRA will audit the 2010 version of this strategy, and the risk that taxpayers could be reassessed.

Having said this, I like the fact that the total cash to be distributed to charities over the life of this tax structure will be greater than the donation receipts issued to the taxpayers who participate. This gives the strategy more legitimacy than many. It also helps that this strategy is fully on the taxman's radar already. It was audited by the CRA for 2005 and 2006, and was given a clean bill of health subsequent to those audits.

How it works

There are basically two phases to this tax structure. The first is that the taxpayer will make an investment in a limited partnership. The second involves a donation to charity. It's a 10-year program so that, at the end of 10 years, your investment is wound-up and you are expected to receive a cash distribution (although not guaranteed).

Specifically, the investor will borrow money to invest in a limited partnership. This will provide the investor with annual deductions on his tax return for interest costs on the debt and financing charges.

Once the investor acquires the limited partnership units, he uses those units as collateral on a second loan, and he donates those loan proceeds to charity. There is no deduction available for the interest on this second loan, but the individual investor will receive a sizable donation receipt. So the tax savings in the first year can be significant.

Part of the funds that are invested in the limited partnership are set aside and invested in a portfolio that is designed to grow over the 10-year program. At the end of 10 years, the funds in the portfolio are expected to be sufficient to pay off the loans. This is part of the risk of the structure. If that portfolio does not grow sufficiently, the investor may have to make up the difference to pay off the loans. The fact that there is some risk to the structure makes it more palatable to the taxman.

At the end of the day, the net cash in the investor's pocket from the tax savings and cash distributed in year 10 is expected to be higher than the cash outlay, with most of the tax savings coming up front in the first year.

If you can help charities and save more tax at the same time, it's worth a look. But before jumping into any tax-structured program, be sure to have a tax specialist review the program on your behalf.

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Hollecrest & Associates Inc   -"Turnaround Consultants"  .

Sunridge Lodge  "Back to Eden" quality 24/7 care
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Brant Positive Action Group -a positive community affirmative action group that promotes goodwill and timely cost effective creative solutions to enhance the competitive well being of Brant Brantford and Six Nations  

What is rich -an interesting perspective and food for thought

Go Ahead, Tax the Rich, Just as Long as It's Not Me
Cliff Ennico
A lot of people are confused right now about Congress' plans to raise taxes (more precisely, eliminate the Bush-era tax cuts) for people with incomes of $250,000 per year or more.

"How can anyone argue against a tax increase for rich people?" I've heard people ask. "After all, they can afford it more than middle-class people can. And raising these taxes will generate $700 billion in revenue for the government over the next 10 years without anyone suffering too badly."

There's nothing wrong with that logic. Since 1913, the federal government has been committed to a program of "progressive" taxation -- basically, the more you make, the more taxes you pay. Aside from affordability, many people believe that wealthier people have a social obligation to subsidize government benefits for those who are less well off (and besides, there are so few rich people that their votes at election time don't count for much).

The problem comes about in defining precisely who is "rich" and who isn't. There's an old saying: "A rich person is anyone who makes more than I do." In other words, it's OK to increase taxes on the rich as long as I myself am not included in the definition of "rich."

I have always had a problem with a progressive tax system that is based solely on people's income. The reason is that I have always lived in the New York City metropolitan area, where the cost of living is extremely high. A lot of people I know make more than $250,000 a year, and they are outraged by the notion that they are so rich that they can afford a significant tax hike.

To understand the shortcomings of a progressive tax system based solely on income, take the following two situations:

-- Person A lives in rural Kansas, in a sprawling family farmhouse with no mortgage. Person A has an annual pretax income of $150,000, has no dependents and has average annual expenses of $30,000.

-- Person B lives in midtown Manhattan, in a cramped two-bedroom condo with two mortgages and two children in private schools (not because Person B is a snob, but because his kids stand a better chance of surviving to adulthood than if they were in New York City's public schools). Person B has an annual pretax income of $300,000 and has average annual expenses of $270,000.

Who would you say is the "richer" of the two? Most of us would say Person A, and we would be right from an economic point of view. Person A makes half as much as Person B, but has four times the discretionary income of Person B ($120,000 versus $30,000) because of Person A's low expenses.

However, under our current tax system, Person B is considered to be "richer" than Person A, and is taxed at a higher rate. If the Bush-era tax cuts for high-income people are not extended, Person B will see a significant increase in his taxes. The tax increase for Person B may be enough to wipe out his meager discretionary income and may threaten his personal liquidity. Meanwhile, Person A, who could more easily afford a tax increase because of his high annual discretionary income, continues to enjoy a "windfall" from his continued low tax rate.

The big assumption here, of course, is that all of Person B's expenses are necessary and unavoidable, and not the result of irresponsible luxury spending. In my example, I think they would be -- New York City has the highest cost of living, real estate costs, and state and local taxes of just about anyplace in America. And anyone who knows anything about New York City's public schools would send their kids to private schools in a heartbeat if they lived there. Frankly, there isn't much room for Person B to cut back on his living expenses.

There isn't any effective way for the government to base taxes on "discretionary income" -- this varies widely from individual to individual, and somebody's "necessary" expense is somebody else's "luxury." ("After all," I can hear some readers thinking, "nobody's forcing Person B to live in Manhattan" -- except perhaps his employer).

But if the government's goal is to allocate tax burdens to those best able to bear them, I think a better approach would be to base our tax system upon people's assets -- what they're worth after taking expenses into account -- rather than just their income. With a tax on individual net worth (or perhaps a progressive income tax that is adjusted or "weighted" to reflect a person's overall assets), Person A would pay higher taxes than Person B, resulting in a much more fair and equitable outcome.

If as a business owner you make a significant income but are working 24/7 in your business and are up to your ears in legitimate business debts, you are not "rich," yet the government thinks you are. It's time for that mentality to change.

Cliff Ennico (crennico@gmail.com) is a syndicated columnist, author and former host of the PBS television series "Money Hunt."

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Target: New business culture needed -Rejecting Subsidy, Shunning Dependencyfrom Frontier Centre

Rejecting Subsidy, Shunning Dependency
Ben Eisen's study of "stealth equalization" provides further evidence for the new movement of Atlantic Canadians who understand that federal subsidies undermine their economic capacity for self-reliance and foster dependency. Frontier's Research Director Marco Navarro-Genie discusses how the notion of dependency is being restored to its non-ideological meaning.

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Brant Positive Action Group -a positive community affirmative action group that promotes goodwill and timely cost effective creative solutions to enhance the competitive well being of Brant Brantford and Six Nations  

Interesting food for thought on property rights

Private Property Is Nothing To Fear  http://www.fcpp.org/

An economic study of successful First Nations is being held in suspicion through erroneous thinking about the notion of private property. Aboriginal policy analyst Joseph Quesnel looks at some common fallacies held about indigenous peoples in Canada and the notion of private property. He argues the debate about the appropriateness of property as an economic development tool should be free of misinformation.

Freedom Is The Destiny Of Native Canadians
A poll conducted by Frontier Centre reveals there is a hunger out in Indian Country for more democracy, starting with an elected grand chief in each province. Frontier's Aboriginal policy fellow Don Sandberg looks at a poll conducted by the Frontier Centre which highlights strong support across all Prairie First Nations for elected grand chiefs. First Nations clearly want democratic leadership and an end to the system where only chiefs select important leaders.

http://www.siegholleward1.com/
https://sites.google.com/site/bpagsiegholle

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How to help small business create jobs

Here are two news bulletins for new members of Government

 We are watching what you do

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-- Small-business owners will not go out and hire people if by doing
so they have to reduce their take-home pay -- they will continue to do
most of the work themselves and pocket the profits.
-- Asking small-business owners to increase their expenses today in
return for a tax deduction or credit, which they won't see until next
year, is a non-starter -- it's like the Wimpy character in the old
Popeye cartoons, who "will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger
today."
For small-business tax breaks to be really effective, they will need
to put more money in small-business owners' pockets (or at least not
reduce their current ODI).
Here are the tax breaks America's small businesses really need to grow
and create jobs the way the government wants them to do. Newly elected
members , whatever your party affiliation, please take note.

• -- Eliminate employment taxes for small payrolls. Most employee
  salaries are artificially inflated because of Social Security,
  Medicare and other employment taxes. This makes employees extremely
  expensive and discourages small-business owners from hiring people. By
  eliminating these taxes for payrolls of less than $5 million, three
  wonderful things will happen:
• -- Small businesses will actually go out and hire people, because they
  can now pay them lower wages that employees can live on without
  drastically reducing the owners' own incomes.
• -- Employees will end up with more after-tax money in their pockets
  (many existing employees will get a "de facto" wage increase), which
  will encourage them to spend more on stuff.
• -- Small-business owners will no longer have to pay huge sums to
  bookkeepers, accountants and payroll services to help them keep track
  of the byzantine employment tax rules.

I would also recommend that in adopting this law, government
eliminate these taxes on the owners' "self-employment income" as well.
A "pre-emption" of state and local payroll taxes eliminating those as
well on payrolls of less than $5 million would be nice, but I'm not
holding my breath for that.

For the ideas file on how to make things work better
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Inspirational fact -what goes around comes around -pass it on

Go-Getters Who Give    This Zig Ziglar column was originally published in 2000
Zig Ziglar
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Many years ago, in the moors of Scotland, a farmer named Fleming was working hard to support his family. One day, while he was out in his fields working, he heard a distinct cry for help coming from a nearby bog. Mr. Fleming dropped his tools and ran to the bog, where he saw a young lad mired to his waist in black muck. The youngster was screaming and struggling to free himself. The farmer jumped into the bog, saving the young lad from a horrible death.
Thinking no more about it, Mr. Fleming went on about his work. The next day, a beautiful carriage pulled up to the front of their modest cottage. Out stepped an elegantly dressed nobleman, who introduced himself as the father of the boy Mr. Fleming had saved. The man said, "I want to repay you for saving my son's life."
However, the farmer said he couldn't accept payment for what he did, which he said was only the right thing to do. At that moment, the farmer's young son walked up, and the nobleman asked the farmer if that was his son. Mr. Fleming replied, "Yes." And the nobleman said, "I'll make you a deal. Let me take your son and give him a good education. If he's like his father, he will grow up to be a man you can be proud of." The farmer agreed, and the son left his home and went with the nobleman to receive an education.
Later, the son, whose name was Alexander, finished his education and graduated from St. Mary's Hospital School in London. He went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the man who discovered penicillin. Many years later, the son of the nobleman who put Alexander Fleming through school fell gravely ill with pneumonia. He was near death's door, but was saved by a new drug called "penicillin."
You probably have guessed that the nobleman was Lord Randolph Churchill. His son was Sir Winston Churchill. The old saying that "bread cast upon the waters often returns buttered" was certainly true in this case.
I'm not even mildly hinting that when you do something for someone else, the story will have an ending as dramatic as this one. However, what Mr. Fleming did was save a life, and any life has enormous value. He did it without thinking, without any motive other than to save the young boy's life. He graciously accepted the education for his son, because that was for his son's benefit.
The rest of the story is that Lord Randolph Churchill felt a lot better about the transaction because he had a chance to express his deep gratitude in a very real way. This is a classic example of my oft-quoted statement that you can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. I'm certain Mr. Fleming did not have that in mind when he rushed to the aid of young Winston Churchill, but nevertheless, the application is perfect.
The same applies when you give a person in need a word of encouragement. An act of kindness, a helping hand to a youth in trouble, an encouraging word to someone who has lost his or her job can mean a world of difference to that person. There is nothing quite like encouraging people in their struggles through life.
Interestingly enough, research shows that those who get involved in local projects like cleaning up a neighborhood, serving in a soup kitchen, participating with Habitat for Humanity in building homes for the homeless, and so on, are so energized in the process that they end up being more successful in their chosen professions. Now, as newscaster Paul Harvey would say, that's "the rest of the story."

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 If they can not do it –we can as citizens
 – all ideas and community action plans welcome

A call to action for Brantford

Subject: A call to action for Brantford

BRANTFORD ECONOMIC INITIATIVE ;the-brantford-economic-initiative@googlegroups.com


A community call to action for Brantford, Brant and Six Nations
"We have to do more then water the flowers –we need to plant a vibrant
garden with the help of many good people"


As the many good people who did not win the race for official
government office take down their election signs, action plans and
better vision platforms, please remember that your community needs you
in many capacities. You have spent months getting real face to face
input and grassroots feedback from the people of your community. You
are now an real expert on what the people want, what the people do not
want and you have their pulse and the many ideas of what they think
should be done to better their community..

There are many issues that must be addressed to grow our community
successfully with your help. Individually or together we can make a
difference. I am sharing some current challenges gleaned from my
"boots walking" people survey . Here are some of the things that I
heard and learned from the people .

"Energy costs are rising to hurtful levels " … "Many costs of living
are rising  here"

This is a issue that is going to get hot in the cold of winter -
particularly for those who use electrical heat and the costs escalate
to unaffordable "shut off "levels. What are we going to do to help
these people-that is the question?  Some issues that are of interest
•       An upload to the the provincial and federal govt- can the home
energy sector be made exempt from the HST  ? What actions or
considerations will make this possible?  There are citizen groups
starting to promote this " Influencing actions at the federal and
provincial level on utility bills like hydro, water and other
municipal intergovernmental issues"
•       Predatory pricing practices of local utilities -such as connect and
disconnect charges - excessive interest and service charges hidden and
new profit centres to subsidize cost centres? - What to do to
remediate this or remedies on an exception basis?
•       Consolidation of local utilities - there is one energy supplier -why
do we need multiple energy distributors - what happened to the
consolidation strategy - to reduce the number of overheads of the many
local energy distributors?

Why are the bad investment decisions of the past absorbed or
subsidized by the utility user?   This is a monopoly pricing situation
over which they -the user have no control. Should these bad decisions
not come out of the general account?

A further sampling of my boots survey    Voter comments

"Taxes and fees are out of control and we are not getting much for the
increased costs"." How are we going to pay for it?" "How are we going
to get high paying jobs here? "I just lost my job after many years and
now work for a temp agency-I have no choice and hate it." "There is a
drug house in the neighbourhood, I am afraid and the police can do
nothing about it. "  " I moved from Toronto and commute every day –my
taxes are higher here-can you improve transportation to make it easier
to get to my work- a Go Station would be nice " " I live here, but the
large company that I run is in Cambridge –would have built it here –
but the City administration reneged on a major promise " "What do
those people who work for the city really do for the big money we pay
them –I work harder for less money ?" " This development plan for  80
heactres is owned by the city and could support 500 houses -we have
been working at it for 5 years – this part of the public consultation
has cost $200,000  , and it is going on for longer to make sure we
have proper input-what is your opinion?" "Why does everything take so
long to get approvals to do my projects- it is easier and faster in
other cities?" Why can we not get along with our neighbours and work
with them better –losing 350 jobs because of disputes is childish and
stupid "   " Why is city garbage piled up next to my house –it stinks –
the city owns the rental complex –I have complained but nobody helps
me or cares" . "Why does it take a city truck , with  a crew take  two
days to paint a park bench" "Why do we have so many empty city owned
buildings  seems like a waste to me – should we sell them to someone
who cares" 'Great plan but I have heard this before  can you deliver
on the promise –action is really better then words –show me how I can
help get it done " "You are the first person who asked me –thank you
for asking  "

The need for change

These questions and public comments from the people indicate that we
must change how we do things in this city and area- in the future
-.for the better . It is a call to action to do things that deliver
positive outcomes. It is a challenge to the new council to deliver
results , it is a challenge to business to grow jobs , it is a
challenge to all existing and new volunteer groups to add real value ,
it is a challenge to all individuals and groups to care how things are
done  in this community .  It is our city, our community and we get
what we put in.


I thank the people of Brantford for the opportunity to listen to your
very real concerns. It is a call to action that I accept as a
community volunteer and business person . I wish the new council every
success and sincerely hope all other candidates -not chosen for
council- will continue to support this community with their energy,
plans and ideas. Together we can make this an even better place to
live and prosper.

Thank you, people its been an exhilarating march  and new self
motivating leadership ride

Sieg  Holle BS MBA
http://www.siegholleward1.com/

Moving forward with new energy and ideas –
please join me
Brantford Economic Initiative   BEi

In progress - Brant Positve Action Group  If they can not do it –we can as citizens – all ideas and community action plans welcome

Join the Brant tea party -can we duplicate the success of the USA tea party group

Energy trend

Study: Energy alternatives won't be ready
DAVIS, Calif. (UPI) -- Given the current pace of research and development, global oil supplies will run out 90 years before replacement technologies are ready, a U.S. study says.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, based their conclusions on stock market expectations, on the theory that long-term investors are good predictors of whether and when new energy technologies will become commonplace, a university release said.

Two key elements of the new theory are market capitalizations, based on stock share prices, and dividends of publicly owned oil companies and alternative-energy companies.

Other analysts have used similar equations to predict events in finance, politics and even sports, the university said.

"Sophisticated investors tend to put considerable effort into collecting, processing and understanding information relevant to the future cash flows paid by securities," UC Davis post-doctoral researcher Nataliya Malyshkina said.

"As a result, market forecasts of future events, representing consensus predictions of a large number of investors, tend to be relatively accurate."

The forecast was published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

"Our results suggest it will take a long time before renewable replacement fuels can be self-sustaining, at least from a market perspective," said study author Debbie Niemeier, a UC-Davis professor of civil and environmental engineering.

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Smile -why we need to do service audits when we are having a bad day

Having a Bad Day?    At work,at city hall in your organization -do an audit to find out why

Well, then, consider this..............

In a hospital's Intensive Care Unit, patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11:00 a.m., regardless of their medical condition.

This puzzled the doctors and some even thought it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, so a worldwide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents.

The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11:00 a.m., all of the doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about. Some were holding wooden crossses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits.

Just when the clock struck 11:00, Pookie Johnson, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged the life support system so he could use the vacuum cleaner.

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Small things can make bad thing happen in a big way - all parts of your organization -big and small must properly work together.

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Still Having a Bad Day?
The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez Oil spill in Alaska was $ 80,000.00. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers.

A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.

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Good intentions ,money do not necessarily make a difference

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If Universities Were In Business, They’d Be Out Of Business: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

If Universities Were In Business, They’d Be Out Of Business: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy


Monopolies don’t change until a competitive alternative comes along. Online learning offers a far superior formal teaching product. What it can’t deliver is teacher-student interaction. This is the competitive response that will make university life better for both faculty and students. Given that the education system is vital to Canada’s future, the payoff would be enormous.

This Globe and Mail report shows that all institutions have to re-invent themselves . Embrace the possibilities -do not place hurdles in front of constructive change and possibilities . PR

Fwd: Fw: *****BLACKLISTED***** Dalton McGinty

Subject: FW: *****BLACKLISTED***** Dalton McGinty

lets remember this for the next election.  i will remind you for sure...............
 
  

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Subject: Fwd: *****BLACKLISTED***** Dalton McGinty
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:02:16 -0400

 

Subject: Fwd: *****BLACKLISTED***** Dalton McGinty

PLEASE READ, PASS ON (erase my e-mail before you 'forward' it please) AND REMEMBER NEXT ELECTION Here is what our Premier has done for Ontario in the past seven years. Remember...he promised no tax increase in his campaign election message. He has increased all the licensing fees from your car to your boat including fishing and hunting. He introduced the temporary health care premium (surcharge) in 2004 (not called a tax) and some couples pay as much as $1,500.00 a year. And you are still paying it.   He doubled the price of most lottery tickets. (Not called a tax). He has put an ECO tax on many containers such as paint cans and window washer fluid most and people still don't realize it until they see the bill - he kept that one real quiet. He put a disposal tax on all electronics. He put the disposal tax back on tires. And now he has passed the HST tax - the largest tax on the province ever and the only other tax in Ontario that ever came close to this in the past was the health care premium.  He passed this bill even though 76% of the people in Ontario were against it. The HST will provide the Province with an additional THREE BILLION dollars a year. He awarded the Provincial PST Tax Collectors a staggering $9 million severance package when their jobs were transferred to the Federal Government as HST Tax Collectors and not a day's work was lost. Soon we will all have our S.M.A.R.T.. meters that we will have to pay rent on and will end up doing our laundry in the middle of the night.  We are also going to pay big time for air conditioning from now on because when we need it the most it will be in the prime time of usage. Let us not forget the E-health scandal with 1.2 billion dollars wasted and paid out to friends and relatives.    What was Mr. McGuinty's answer to this? "Well, if the people of Ontario don't like it, they can show it in the next election."  Nice attitude.  This after he fired the CEO of E-health and then gave her a severance package of $300,000 - not bad for only being on the job for seven months. And what about the SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS windmill power plant contract that he awarded to KOREA?  One would think there was some place in Canada or North America that could have built these. He also closed the emergency rooms in Port Colborne and Fort Erie because there is not enough money. There have been two deaths since then because by the time they got to St. Catharine's it was too late. But he then awards a hospital in Toronto three million dollars - of course, that was in the riding where there just happens to be a by-election to replace George Smitherman! He has taken the richest most prosperous province in Canada down to one of the poorest and has created a deficit of TWENTY SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS and he still has a year and a half to go. And don't forget his nice little salary increase of $40,000.00 a year - millions of people in the province don't earn even half of that. Have we forgotten all the MPP'S who also got a 14% increase? And now that they've had their increases he comes out with a new budget to freeze all provincial employees wages for two years - a bit late don't you think. He increased the hydro tax by 10% in April of 2010. He has increased the tax on liquor and wine by 10% in May of 2010.  But, Mr. McGuinty will retire with his nice comfortable pension and all his benefits paid.   This needs to be passed around the province of Ontario and everybody needs to remember the way we got screwed by McGuinty and the Liberal party and not one Liberal MPP had enough guts to vote against any of the above.

 

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Gmail - [FAIR Newsletter] Whistleblower watchdog strikes out for third time: FAIR calls for change - siegholle@gmail.com

http://mail.google.com/mail/#mbox/12b999d765ac1dc5

The Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, the agent of Parliament charged with protecting government whistleblowers, published her third annual report this week. For the third consecutive year the Commissioner’s office, with its annual budget of $6.5 million and staff of more than 20, has uncovered not a single case of wrongdoing and has protected not a single whistleblower.

Amazing is Canada really that good????

Education pricey, but worth it

Education pricey, but worth it

If a recent release from the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) is to be believed, university graduates contribute more to Canada's economy and communities than do those without the benefit of higher education.

The new AUCC data on the value of a university degree highlight the benefits of investing in higher education against the backdrop of Canada's shifting demographics and the need for an increasingly flexible, adaptable and productive workforce.

"University graduates enter the workforce with the skills and knowledge necessary to adjust more easily to shifts in the employment market," says Paul Davidson, president, AUCC. "They find jobs quickly — and they find good jobs, that are interesting and pay well."
Never before did a university degree prove more useful than during the recent economic downturn, the worst in 70 years. University graduates enjoyed 150,000 net new jobs from September 2008 to March 2010, compared to 684,000 fewer jobs for those without a degree during that same period, according to AUCC data.

"This is a compelling arguement to increase and support higher education in Brantford to become a leading innovation and education hub and centre" says Sieg Holle who is running for Ward 1 in Brantford Oct 25 election.

"Knowledge is power -a power that we need to become a leading  innovation and learning hub "

Accountability and leadership: Sieg Holle Councillor for Ward 1 Brantford

Of 11 candidates there is only 1 experienced business MBA in the race.
Sieg Holle BS MBA deserves one of your two votes to make a constructive community difference

Advisors News | Industry news | ADVISORS - Preston Manning to advisors: No substitute for integrity

Advisors News | Industry news | ADVISORS - Preston Manning to advisors: No substitute for integrity

" "If the aim is corruption-free government, business, or professional advice, there is still no substitute for character, personal integrity and adherence to strong ethics," Manning told the audience. " This is good advice

Plant closings mean loss of 150 jobs - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA

Plant closings mean loss of 150 jobs - Brantford Expositor - Ontario, CA

-compliance with the law, but the prosecut

Ests that might be vitalized and exalted by that knowledge of the
life hereafter, which spirits alone can demonstrate. Instead of
confining
ourselves, therefore, to the relation of phenomenal facts and
speculative philosophy, we shall
endeavor
to show how beneficially the spiritualistic revelations of the
nineteenth
century might operate through such departments
of earth life as reform, science, theology, politics,
occultism and the only true and practical religion, viz.: goodness
and truth in the life here as
a preparation for heaven and happiness in the life hereafter." As to
Occultism and Theosophy, they say: "Every article that will appear in
these columns will be written by _one who knows_, and
who will deal with those subjects from the standpoint of practical
experience." The article on this subject in the first number
is extremely interesting and instructive, in fact, the first clear
and satisfactory statement that
has been published. Among other facts it mentions that "Lord
Lytton,
the Earl of Stanhope, and Lieut. Morrison (better known as Zadkiel),
and the author of Art Magic, belonged to this society,"--a secret
Occult society in England, successor to the ancient societies
of Egypt, Gree

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mile, would have had then a population of only 481,728 upon that
basis,
leaving Massachusetts in 1860, 1,273,393 more people than Maryland.
Thus is the assertion in a former part of this article now proved,
'that in the absence of slavery, the population of Maryland in 1860
would have
then been at least 1,755,661, and Baltimore at least 542,000.' But, in
view of the many other natural advantages of
Maryland, as shown in this article,
viz.: in climate and salubrity, in shore line and navigable rivers, in
fertility of soil, and hydraulic power, in a more central location for
trade with the whole Union, and especially with the West, and nearer
supplies of cotton, and, above all, in coal and iron, it is clear, in
the absence of slavery, Maryland must have contained in 1860 a
population of
at least two millions. By the census of 1790, Massachusetts was the
fourth in population of all the States, and Maryland the

sixth; but in 1860, Massachusetts was the seventh, and Maryland the
nineteenth; and if each of
the

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Favorite wisdom from Mencken

 

Classic Quotes by H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) US writer
A bore is simply a nonentity who resents his humble lot in life, and seeks satisfaction for his wounded ego by forcing himself on his betters.

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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

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Ontario, like California, Going for Broke: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Food for thought -can we afford to let Ontario at 35% of the Canadian economy go down or hit the debt wall?

Ontario, like California, Going for Broke: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Although California’s economic policies (high spending, high taxes) are destructive, this is mainly a political drama. Democrats will not cut spending. Republicans will not raise taxes. As messy as this left-right struggle gets, California will almost certainly pay its bills, one way or another, in the fullness of time.

Will Ontario? The province has a distinctly different problem: It must now borrow more and more to accomplish less and less. It takes some sophistication to conceal this divergence. Ontario’s effective interest rate – the rate it pays, on average, on all of its debt – is 4.5 per cent. Interest payments will thus cost the province $10-billion (Canadian) this year on its $220-billion debt. Ontario needs half its deficit to make its interest payments.

In 2000, Ontario’s effective interest rate was much higher (8 per cent), its debt much lower ($114-billion). In 2000, interest payments cost $8.8-billion. Ontario, in other words, has used low interest rates to finance higher debt. Any increase in interest rates now will have profoundly disturbing consequences. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty conceded the other day (in another context) that his government has made “some mistakes.” Really? D’ya think?

California Needs To Revive Progressive Practices: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

Can Ontario learn from California ?

California Needs To Revive Progressive Practices: FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

In the past few years, Mr. Kotkin notes, California has lost 700,000 jobs – among them, 400,000 manufacturing jobs and 130,000 Silicon Valley jobs. For the first time since the Great Depression, personal incomes are falling and middle-class Californians are fleeing. (Between 2004 and 2007, California lost – net – 500,000 residents; in 2008, it lost another 135,000.) Unemployment officially approaches 13 per cent, one of the highest rates in the country. In Fresno, described by some as “California’s Detroit,” unemployment reaches 40 per cent. In Los Angeles County, 20 per cent of the population (2.2 million people) receive social welfare.
Who fled California? Mostly, Mr. Kotkin wrotes, middle-class workers – people who earned between $35,000 (U.S.) and $75,000. The result of this exodus, he said, is a two-tier society: “a lucrative one for the wealthy and for government workers … a grim one for the private-sector middle and working class.”
Anti-Private Sector Policies
California has always been governed by “progressives,” he writes, by trend-setting leaders who invested aggressively in “middle-class infrastructure” – highways, schools, hospitals, docks, water management, public parks and clean air. But the progressives of yesteryear understood the fundamental need of middle-class workers: jobs.
The progressives who govern now have turned against the private sector, imposing one of the most burdensome tax regimes in the U.S., largely destroying the small-business sector that produces most of the jobs. These progressive have also turned against the suburbs, where the middle-class has traditionally thrived, directing people instead into densely populated inner cities where the public sector can more efficiently engineer “sustainable housing.”
“This new urban model will apply not to the wealthy progressives who own spacious homes in the suburbs, but to the next generation, largely Latino and Asian,” Mr. Kotkin observes. This fashionable repudiation of the suburbs will not work, he writes. More than 80 per cent of Californians either own their own homes or aspire to own them. By the thousands, Californian refugees are now finding jobs and “sustainable housing” on their own – in the suburbs of Houston and Phoenix.
Mr. Kotkin writes that a coalition of environmentalists and public-sector unions run the state – and spends lavishly. (From 2003 through 2007, state and local government spending increased by 30 per cent.) “In the past, both [Republicans and Democrats] had to answer to middle- and lower-class voters sensitive to taxes and dependent on economic growth,” he writes. “But these days … power is won largely by mobilizing activists and public employees.” The results can be seen in the utopian reach of state legislators: California’s Global Warning Solutions Act will (according to a study by economists at California State University) reduce the state’s GDP by $182-billion in the next 10 years – and cost 1.1 million jobs.
'Smart Growth' Strategy
California often points to companies such as Disney, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Apple (and scores of smaller innovative companies) as evidence that the state is pursuing a successful “smart growth” strategy. But Mr. Kotkin notes that these companies have moved most of their middle-class workers to other states.
He recommends a return to the progressive practices of the past. First, California should shift its priorities – for example, by ending the lavish pensions provided to public-sector bureaucrats. Second, it should invest once again in “middle-class infrastructure” – ports, bridges, highways and sewers. He notes that California’s ports are so congested that the state exports dockyard jobs north (to Canada) and south (to Mexico).

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Case Study: How Open data saved Canada $3.2 Billion

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David Hutton – August 27, 2010

In his excellent blog about open government and open data, David Eaves describes how a Toronto consultant exposed a multi-billion charities fraud – simply by analyzing contributions data obtained from Canada Revenue Agency.

Using just a PC and a spreadsheet, the consultant analyzed the contributions reported by charities in Toronto during 2005 – a dataset that he had obtained from CRA – and uncovered some startling facts.

Sorting the spreadsheet by total contributions revealed that two hitherto obscure charities had each raised far more money than the United Way, Canada's leading charitable organization. This was clearly implausible and likely fraudulent. Worse, the data revealed that four out of the top 15 charities on the list were suspect.

The outcome was that over the next few years CRA deregistered numerous fraudulent charities and disallowed or questioned $3.2 billion in tax receipts claimed by 100,000 Canadian tax filers. And a class action suit against one of these charticies was launched by thousands of donors.

If one person with a spreadsheet could accomplish this by scrutinizing a tiny sliver of one department's records, imagine what waste and misconduct could be uncovered if the government would abandon its obsessive secrecy and open more of its books to scrutiny by citizens. Why not? It is our money.

See the complete post on David Eaves blog
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FAIR Monthly Headlines: August 2010 A list of articles added to the FAIR website last month. These are about whistleblowing, whistleblowers, and the types of misconduct that they typically expose. Who dares to speak... Topics: Integrity Commissioner, OPSIC, Wikileaks Alex Roslin – August 28, 2010 Dr. Shiv Chopra still remembers the words his friend spoke a few days before he died. "Every time I come here, I vomit," Dr. Chris Basudde, a fellow Health Canada doctor, had said. "I feel sick. I can't take this." Chopra told his friend to see a doctor and take some time off work. Days later, he was stunned to learn that Basudde had died of a suspected heart attack. Collapsed Chilean mine 'reopened after bribes', despite fatal accidents Topics: Corruption, International, Regulatory oversight Nico Hines – August 30, 2010 THE Chilean mine where 33 men are trapped should not have been allowed to reopen after fatal accidents forced its closure, say officials and miners. Alejandro Garcia-Huidobro, chairman of the parliamentary committee investigating the tunnel collapse, has lent his support to widespread allegations of corruption and bribery surrounding the reopening in 2008 of the San Jose mine in Chile's Atacama desert. Olympic bill nothing compared to Sochi's Topics: Corruption, International Michael Smyth – August 29, 2010 If you think Vancouver's Winter Olympics were expensive, you should check out the mounting bills in Russia, where they're blowing so many rubles out the door they make the budget for our little party look like a peewee shinny tournament. Costs for the Sochi 2014 Games are exploding due to blown construction budgets, soaring security bills, unforeseen costs to deal with the semitropical location and – especially – rampant corruption, the Moscow Times reports. Wikileaks: Hitting 'send' to expose a dirty secret Topics: Wikileaks Alex Roslin – August 28, 2010 Faced with mounting secrecy and the failure of official channels of complaint, whistle-blowers seem to be turning increasingly to the Internet and websites pledged to expose government and corporate secrets, in the public interest. For whistle-blowers, the sites allow them to expose secrets as fast as they can hit "send." Critics argue the sites may endanger lives by posting national security information. Sikorsky being sued for $26M over Newfoundland crash Topics: Aviation safety, Transport Canada Moira Baird – August 26, 2010 ST. JOHNS, N.L. — Cougar Helicopters and eight insurance companies, led by U.K. firm Lloyd's, are suing Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., for more than $26.6 million in combined damages and losses resulting from the March 12, 2009, helicopter crash that killed 17 people off the coast of Newfoundland. Also named as defendants in the lawsuit are Helicopter Support Inc., which is Sikorsky's parts and repair subsidiary, and Transport Canada. Case Study: How Open data saved Canada $3.2 Billion Topics: Access to information David Hutton – August 27, 2010 In his excellent blog about open government and open data, David Eaves describes how a Toronto consultant exposed a multi-billion charities fraud – simply by analyzing contributions data obtained from Canada Revenue Agency. Using just a PC and a spreadsheet, the consultant analyzed the contributions reported by charities in Toronto during 2005 – a dataset that he had obtained from CRA – and uncovered some startling facts. Why data matter Topics: Environment, Government negligence Ottawa Citizen editorial – August 26, 2010 When Canada has trouble measuring how much snow is on the ground, something is seriously wrong with the state of government research. An internal Environment Canada report from 2008, released through an access to information request, shows that cuts to the Meteorological Service of Canada have left this country without accurate weather data. We're not talking about a lack of money for fancy computer models or self-indulgent research projects. No, this is about basic measurement of stuff like temperature, rainfall and hours of sunshine. Census changes 'mindless': experts Topics: Government negligence Margaret Munro – August 26, 2010 Canada will pay a huge price for the Harper government's "short-sighted" decision to scrap the mandatory census, leading U.S. statisticians say. "This decision will lower the quality and raise the cost of information on nearly every issue before Canada's government," Stephen Fienberg at Carnegie Mellon University and Kenneth Prewitt at Columbia University say today in the journal Nature. Jean Charest on the hot seat at an inquiry he called Topics: Corruption, Government ethics Rhéal Séguin – August 24, 2010 Former Quebec justice minister Marc Bellemare has testified under oath that Premier Jean Charest gave his blessing to the role Quebec Liberal Party fundraisers played in the appointment of judges in the province. Mr. Bellemare's testimony on Tuesday before a commission of inquiry into the nomination of judges was so politically damaging that Mr. Charest rushed to deny the charges. Bellemare gives explosive testimony against Charest Topics: Corruption, Government ethics Philip Authier and Marianne White – August 24, 2010 QUEBEC — Quebec Premier Jean Charest personally ordered his former justice minister to name two people to the bench because a party fundraiser wanted them to be made judges, Marc Bellemare testified on Tuesday. In explosive testimony before the Bastarache commission on Tuesday, Mr. Bellemare, the former justice minister, outlined a meeting between him and Mr. Charest on Sept. 2, 2003 in which he complained that powerful Liberal fundraisers were leaning on him to name certain people judges. Cuts jeopardizing quality of Environment Canada's weather service Topics: Environment, Government negligence Mike De Souza – August 23, 2010 OTTAWA - Sustained cuts to Environment Canada weather-service programs have compromised the government's ability to assess climate change and left it with a "profoundly disturbing" quality of information in its data network, says a newly released internal government report. The stinging assessment, obtained through an access-to-information request, suggests that Canada's climate network infrastructure is getting progressively worse and no longer meets international guidelines. Cops Struggling to keep up with White-Collar crime: Report Topics: White-collar crime Andrew Hanon – August 20, 2010 White-collar crime is evolving so quickly that police and the public are struggling to keep up with the latest scams, according to the Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada. "Criminal groups are constantly exploiting new ways and new opportunities," said Edmonton police Chief Mike Boyd. "It is important for Canadians to be aware the scope and range of illicit activity is constantly evolving." Leaked police report skewers handling of Pickton case Topics: RCMP Lindsay Kines and Les Leyne – August 20, 2010 A draft copy of the Vancouver Police Department's internal report on the investigation of Robert Pickton confirms that police had compelling evidence pointing at the serial killer by August 1999 -- more than two years before his arrest. But because of jurisdictional battles, bad management, and shoddy analysis of the information, police turned their backs on Pickton, while he continued to take women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and murder them on his Port Coquitlam, B.C., farm. Iceland aiming to be a global press freedom haven Topics: Access to information, International, Legislation, Wikileaks Pierre-Henry Deshayes (AFP) – August 19, 2010 REYKJAVIK — After Iceland's near-economic collapse laid bare deep-seated corruption, the country aims to become a safe haven for journalists and whistleblowers from around the globe by creating the world's most far-reaching freedom of information legislation. The project, developed with the help of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, flies in the face of a growing tendency of governments trying to stifle a barrage of secret and embarrassing information made readily available by the Internet. Veterans advocate won't go quietly Topics: Veterans Affairs John Ibbitson – August 17, 2010 The Veterans Ombudsman isn't the first watchdog Stephen Harper has gotten rid of, but he is certainly the loudest. Claiming he was mere "window dressing" for an "obstructive and deceptive" bureaucracy, Pat Stogran promised veterans Tuesday he would use his remaining three months on the job making sure "Canadians know how badly so many of you are being treated." Don't let Ottawa make financial scapegoats of our veterans Topics: Sean Bruyea, Veterans Affairs Sean Bruyea – August 17, 2010 As Canada attempts to remain buoyant after the recent economic flood, Ottawa's rush to cut the cost of government has one very large but often silent group on the chopping block: disabled veterans and their families. When Canadians hear the word "veteran," we quickly imagine a blazer-and-beret-clad senior, wavering at attention in the November cold of so many Remembrance Days past. Canada's Second World War veterans were once more than a million, but their numbers have dwindled with time. We can't fight casino money laundering: RCMP report Topics: Organized crime, RCMP Chad Skelton – August 12, 2010 VANCOUVER — Money laundering by organized crime groups is rampant at Canadian casinos but police are essentially doing nothing to combat it, according to an internal RCMP report obtained by The Vancouver Sun. "Since 2003, FINTRAC [the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada] has sent several disclosure reports to the RCMP on suspicious transactions involving casinos throughout Canada, with amounts totalling over $40 million," the 2009 report states. After Avandia: Does the FDA Have a Drug Problem? Topics: Pharmaceutical industry Massimo Calabresi with Alice Park – August 12, 2010 Five days before a 2007 article in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that the diabetes drug Avandia was linked to a 43% increase in heart attacks compared with other medications or placebos, a group of scientists and executives from the drug's maker, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), gathered in a conference room at the offices of the Food and Drug Administration in White Oak, Md. The GSK goal: to convince regulators that the evidence that the company's $3 billion-a-year blockbuster drug caused heart problems was inconclusive. To do that, the GSK officials focused not on heart-attack data but on a broader, less well defined category of heart problems called myocardial ischemia. The most recent studies of Avandia, the GSK officials told the FDA, had "yielded information that is inconsistent with an increased risk of myocardial ischemic events," according to sealed court proceedings obtained by TIME. Safety infractions documented at grounded airline Topics: Aviation safety, Transport Canada Brian Daly – August 10, 2010 MONTREAL – A Quebec City charter airline, grounded following two deadly crashes earlier this year, committed a litany of safety infractions over a nine-year period, according to Transport Canada. Aeropro was found to have violated safety regulations more than 100 times since 2001, according to documents Transport Canada submitted to a Federal Court this week, where Aeropro is trying to have its operating license reinstated. Corruption to blame for flooding disaster: experts Topics: Asia, Corruption, International Jeremy Page – August 9, 2010 ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's devastating floods could have been contained if tens of millions of dollars for flood prevention projects had not been embezzled or misspent over the past three decades, water experts and activists have told The Times. Many Pakistanis have blamed the disaster on the current civilian government, in particular President Asif Ali Zardari, who returned to an angry nation Sunday after refusing to cancel a six-day visit to France and Britain. Drowning in a sea of incompetence Topics: Asia, Corruption, International Dr Syed Mansoor Hussain – August 9, 2010 Sometimes things look so bad that even an optimist like me has a hard time finding some silver lining to the 'dark clouds' hanging over Pakistan. Man-made disasters, natural disasters, terrorism, target killings and now the complete collapse of the Pakistani cricket team. What has emerged most forcefully out of the confluence of all these 'problems' is that those who run this country at almost all levels are totally incapable of doing what is expected of them. Corruption is often labelled as the root cause of all evils in Pakistan. What has become obvious is that the basic problem we face as a country is not just corruption but rather rank incompetence of those who supposedly govern us. Disabled veterans not just another statistic Topics: Government ethics, Sean Bruyea, Veterans Affairs Sean Bruyea – August 9, 2010 There are 600,000 Canadian Forces veterans. More than 50,000 of them are suffering permanent injuries and will need some form of support for the rest of their lives. Why was this statistical elephant in the room ignored? At first glance, an independent and soundly functioning Statistics Canada's has little in common with the manner in which Canada treats its injured soldiers. However, objective, sound and thorough statistical science has much to do with how we honour the military sacrifices made in Canada's name. A UBS insider blows the whistle on Swiss banking Topics: International, USA, White-collar crime Michael Bronner – August 5, 2010 NEW YORK — It's the inner sanctum of Swiss banking — the heavily-guarded nexus between numbered Swiss bank accounts and their owner's good names — and it's the rare American that is allowed entry. Bradley Birkenfeld was one of the few Americans who held the keys to the kingdom. A Boston-born, high-flying, cross-border banker at Switzerland's premier financial institution, UBS, he had access to the kind of secret account information that American law enforcement had only dreamed of through all the decades that terrorists, dictators, arms dealers, mafia dons and wealthy tax cheats had hidden behind the fortress of secrecy that Swiss banking promised. Media Chill Topics: OSC, White-collar crime Jeffrey G. MacIntosh – August 4, 2010 Looking for a formula to commit securities frauds with no downside risk? Look no further. Here's how it's done. It's really quite simple. Load up on put or call options in a given company's stock (depending on how you plan to manipulate the market), and then, on a promise of confidentiality, pass false and misleading information about that company to a reporter. Cash your options in when the price moves. Then sip pina coladas on a beach of your choice. Carpet-cleaning contracts behind probe of Ontario ministries Topics: Corruption Steve Ladurantaye and Greg McArthur – August 04, 2010 Carpet-cleaning contracts are behind a criminal investigation at three Ontario government ministries, according to court records, with civil servants accused of accepting kickbacks and rigging bids to line their pockets with cash and electronics. Premier Dalton McGuinty said last week that three government ministries were under investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police, but did not say why. Millions spent on doctor 'gagging orders', UK investigation finds Topics: Health care, International, UK Nigel Morris – August 2, 2010 Hospital doctors who quit their jobs are being routinely forced to sign "gagging orders" despite legislation designed to protect National Health Service whistleblowers, it is revealed today. Millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are being spent on contracts that deter doctors from speaking out about incompetence and mistakes in patient care. Transport Canada grounds aviation company, pulls operating permit Topics: Aviation safety, Transport Canada The Canadian Press – August 1, 2010 MONTREAL - Transport Canada has grounded a Quebec-based charter aviation company, effectively ending its air operations. The agency revoked Aeropro's operating permit Saturday night following an audit that found repeated violations of Canadian aviation regulations. The move by Transport Canada comes on the heels of an Aeropro plane crash near the airport last June that killed seven people. About FAIR Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR) promotes integrity and accountability within government by empowering employees to speak out without fear of reprisal when they encounter wrongdoing. Our aim is to support legislation and management practices that will provide effective protection for whistleblowers and hence occupational free speech in the workplace. FAIR is a registered Canadian charity. http://fairwhistleblower.ca | Join us on Facebook Unsubscribe from this newsletter

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