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What a gift exchange!

What a gift exchange!

I’ve decided it’s time to stop trying to buck the tide and go with the popular trend in gift giving. Having come to that conclusion and decision, I’m buying a few gift cards.
Three important year-end tax tips

Three important year-end tax tips

Are you managing your assets with tax efficiency? This year make sure both you and your spouse review your personal net worth statements to ensure you take advantage of every tax benefit available. Here are three important year-end tips to consider.
We can't afford to take charities for granted

We can't afford to take charities for granted

Many forms of caring and cultural enrichment need lots of dedicated people to be fully realized and charities multiply the common good
The critical importance of life insurance literacy

The critical importance of life insurance literacy

Would you feel you were receiving excellent medical care if your doctor wrote five prescriptions or fewer in the previous year? Would you ever think of using a real estate agent who only had five or fewer transactions in the previous year? Would you
Liberals own no mandate to change electoral system

Liberals own no mandate to change electoral system

Based on the scant mention electoral reform drew during last year's election, a referendum is the only legitimate preface to change
A perfectly North Stars Christmas

A perfectly North Stars Christmas

Dear Editor ‘Tis the season for North Stars fans to be jolly, but wait, we’ve been jolly for the last three months based on the play of Nate Bedford and Braeden Johnson’s Battlefords North Stars! It’s time to relay joyous greetings to some fine young
Cross-border beer and the case for in-Canada free trade

Cross-border beer and the case for in-Canada free trade

Free trade continues to be valued, as it was at Confederation, both for its economic benefits and its potential to promote Canadian unity
Little Canada 150 funding in Conservative ridings

Little Canada 150 funding in Conservative ridings

One of the newspaper’s rural correspondents noted recently that Canada is celebrating 150 years of confederation in 2017. She suggested we should all be thinking of ways to mark the occasion.
Vancouver's tax on vacant homes misses the point

Vancouver's tax on vacant homes misses the point

When new homes don't keep up with demand, buyers or renters bid for a dwindling pool of listings, pushing prices up and people out
End HIV stigma, wear red on World AIDS Day

End HIV stigma, wear red on World AIDS Day

Dear Editor Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day. This day is to honour those living with HIV and those who have died as a result of having HIV, as well as to bring awareness about the HIV virus.
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