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From: dmanke@sanjuan (Dennis Manke)
Subject: Re: UI Benfits Cut
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 23:50:45 GMT

In article <Bzpo3x.E4u@mach1.wlu.ca> dmccrea6@mach1.wlu.ca (doug mccready F) writes:
>
>Problem here is what if you drive the well-educated (higher income people)
>or their capital out of the country? Who will pay for the jobs to be
>created? I do not consider myself rich - indeed, I can barely pay my monthly
>bills as it is but my taxes are now much higher than they would be if I
>moved and there are many others like me. I could consider moving if taxes
>rise much more. While I do not supply much in the way of capital, I do teach
>University students and I provide the government with many thousands of
>dollars - where would they get the money if I moved? Think before you talk!
>
>

Why should taxes rise? Currently there is a whole lot of people
(self employed) who get away without paying for UIC which as you
have recognized is a welfare system and not an insurance.

If UIC where really UIC and the welfare aspect was
funded through general revenue, then you would pay a ***LOT***
less in premiums and probably less in taxes (if you believe there
won't be a tax grab) since it would get rid of the loop hole that
self employed people have (they would pay their fare share for the
welfare part + if they elected, they would pay for UIC in some
appropriate insurance bracket that covers in total their risk).

I won't claim this would solve the problem,
but it is not as big an issue as you an economist make it appear.

Newsgroups: can.general
From: sfysh@epas.utoronto.ca (Stephanie Moskal Fysh)
Subject: Re: Graduate Student Tax Deductions in Canada -- Books?
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
Distribution: canada
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:22:12 GMT
Keywords: Canada, tax, student

In article <92Dec22.061844.24313@acs.ucalgary.ca> sepa@enel.ucalgary.ca (Michael Sepa) writes:
>	I have heard that a graduate student my deduct from their taxes
>	some amount for the cost of school/research related books.  I
>	was hoping that someone could enlighten me on how this is done,

Well, considering that Professors can't claim books etc. as business
expenses even though they are required for their jobs, I really doubt
that students can.  It sure does take a lot of books (not to mention
photocopying of unaffordable ones) to write this dissertation...
-- 
Stephanie Moskal Fysh    |   "Today an eighteenth-century scholar may well
Dept. of English         |   be Jewish, female, or generally irreverent."
Univ. of Toronto         |                             - Lawrence Lipking
(sfysh@epas.utoronto.ca) |                            
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From: ewong@ucs.ubc.ca (Eldon Wong)
Newsgroups: can.general,bc.general
Subject: Re: deadbeat condo builders
Date: 23 Dec 1992 22:52:33 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: swiss.ucs.ubc.ca

In article <8u69VB1w164w@mtcons.almanac.bc.ca>johnnie@mtcons.almanac.bc.ca 
(John Wilkinson) writes: 
>
> Even if a builder is part of the Warranty Program it may not help. There
> is a misconception out there that the program covers deficiencies. It
> may be they give that impression but in reality they only cover structural
> defects. If the problems are things like drywall pops, unfinished work or
> poor work it is up to the client and the builder. It would be helpful if a

Aren't the things people seem to be complaining about (leaks, incorrectly
installed pipes, etc.) considered structural defects?  I understand that
cosmetic problems aren't covered, but that isn't what most people take
legal action over, is it?  I may be wrong, but I assumed most of the
conflicts are over problems that are considered structured defects.

> person could locate the individual subtrade involved especially if the
> builder is in trouble.
> A source of information may be the publishers of The Home Builders Guide
> of BC.
>
> Stewart Communications
> 263 Lebleu Street
> Coquitlam, B.C.  V3K 4L8
> (604) 931-4863
>
>Hope that helps


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From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman)
Subject: Re: Graduate Student Tax Deductions in Canada -- Books?
Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 22:53:25 GMT

sepa@enel.ucalgary.ca (Michael Sepa) writes:
> I have heard that a graduate student my deduct from their taxes
> some amount for the cost of school/research related books.  I
> was hoping that someone could enlighten me on how this is done,
> or where I could find the information.  Remember:  Accountants
> are out since:  Student==Poor.

It depends on your source of income.  Paragraph 56(1)(o) of the Income
Tax Act provides that if you receive a research grant (such as an NSERC
or SSHRC grant), you can deduct expenses incurred for the purpose of
carrying on the research, and books could qualify.

If your only income is from other sources (scholarship, employment,
investment, etc.), you can't deduct the expenses.  As another poster noted,
you can also deduct expenses against business income; however, there is
no magical "two years" for which such claims will not be challenged.
If audited, you will need to show that your business had a reasonable
expectation of profit.  If your business generates losses that you claim
against other income, your chances of being audited will skyrocket.

By the way, you should have been able to get at least part of this answer
simply by calling your local office of Revenue Canada Taxation.  On straight-
forward questions the inquiries people are usually able to come up with
the right answers.

David Sherman
Tax Author & Consultant
Editor, "The Practitioner's Income Tax Act"
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Newsgroups: can.general,bc.general
Subject: Re: deadbeat condo builders
From: johnnie@mtcons.almanac.bc.ca (John Wilkinson)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:13:13 PST
Organization: MT Construction, Nanaimo, B.C.

ewong@ucs.ubc.ca (Eldon Wong) writes:

> Aren't the things people seem to be complaining about (leaks, incorrectly
> installed pipes, etc.) considered structural defects?  I understand that
> cosmetic problems aren't covered, but that isn't what most people take
> legal action over, is it?  I may be wrong, but I assumed most of the
> conflicts are over problems that are considered structured defects.
> 
In my experience the complaints have been minor, and I'm not quite
sure how they deal with mechanical trades, I don't have their info
anymore. A couple of quotes from one of their ads, though.
1. During the first year the Program guarantees the Reg. Builder will
repair defects occurring in workmanship and material.
2. For an additional four years, should a major structural defect occur,
the program assumes the liability and makes the necessary repair.

I haven't had the misfortune to work with any deadbeat builders. On all the
projects I worked on everything was thoroughly tested long before occupancy.
You sometimes get failed joints and such but with lots of time to fix it.

Newsgroups: can.general,talk.politics.animals
From: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow)
Subject: Re: Better to be slaughtered than never to have lived? Re: Meat eaters (LONG)
Keywords: Meat Vegans vegetarian food
Organization: Technology News, IIT, Chicago, IL
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 06:52:30 GMT

The big question r.e. the subject line is, what would the animals fate be
if it WASN'T killed by farmers/hunters/automobiles?

or, as my .signature says:


PETA:  An organization consisting solely of do-gooders who think all wild
        animals live in a Disney movie.
%%
PETA:   Parsimonious vegetarians against the Exploitation of Tasty Animals.
%%
        When PETA starts trying to toss red paint on motorcycle riders
wearing leather jackets, things will get more interesting (and I hope
someone's there with a camera)."
                                        -- James Jones
-- 
Polit Speak #77          Moral Fiber

What Jesse Helms has for breakfast-
 
The breakfast of champions (of censorship, intolerance, and fundamentalism)

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                         My Employer Disagrees.
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From: mkaiserman@hpb.hwc.ca
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: No More Sheltered Work Shops
Date: 27 Dec 92 12:45:12 EST
Organization: Health and Welfare, Canada


In article <13763@grayt>, grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes:
> 
> The Ontario (NDP) government has announced that it intends to close
> all sheltered work shops for the developmentally handicapped (the latest
> euphemism for the group which was previously called the mentally
> retarded). The government intend to close the work shops in favour
> of "community" solutions.
> 
> So far the government's actions have been to delete five million from the
> budget for work shops and provide two million for "community" services.
> The government does not have or intends to provide a defintition of
> a "community" service. Instead it expects the "community" to come up with
> services which it will fund.
> 
> Rumour has it that the NDP government intends to implement the same policy
> with the psychiatrically impaired although no such policy has been announced.
> 
> Essentially, the policy is to remove the government from services to these
> groups and the institution of a new policy of politically correct rhetoric.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> i.sinature



Wonderful group of people, our NDP government.  When they should be
dogmatic, they're pragmatic; and, when they should be pragmatic, they're
dogmatic.  Somebody should explain to these yahoos that if they support
these people, then the "menatlly challenged" will spend this money in the
new casinos, thus improving the economy.  Unbelievable.

All kidding aside.  The people most affected by this move need our support. 
They are confused as to what is going to happen to them and they are doing
quite well, thank you, under the current program (I guess that's why it's
being cut).  To  those of us who work in the Federal government, we know
these people as the people who come in and empty our blue boxes or who
water our plants.  They are friendly and talkative.  One thing they are
more than willing to talk about is this latest bit of madness.  

I strongly suggest that we inform our MPP's about the concerns of those who
are supposed to benefit from this latest bit of government help.  It
doesn't help one bit, however.  

jh
Newsgroups: can.general
From: klassen@sol.UVic.CA (Melvin Klassen)
Subject: Re: Addresses of BC universities
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:42:59 GMT

Frank F. Yu <yu@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca> writes:
> I need the addresses of the Department of Economics of the following list
> of universities for a friend: UBC, SFU, UVic, UWO.

There are three good, free, sources for this information:
 - the Department of Economics at McMaster,
 - the Registrar's Office at McMaster,
 - the University Library at McMaster.

These bureaucracies must have the official "Calendar" publications,
because they admit students who transfer from these schools,
and they give academic-credit for courses taken by these schools,
by consulting the appropriate calendar, and comparing the course-descriptions.
Newsgroups: can.francais
From: rnegules@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Radu Negulescu)
Subject: (none)
Originator: root@neumann.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:29:50 GMT

Salut

Est-ce qu'il y a un dictionnaire franc,ais en forme electronique 
qu'on peut utilizer sans taxes?

Radu
Newsgroups: can.francais
From: duquet@astro.phy.ulaval.ca (Jean-Remi Duquet)
Subject: Re: "Polemique autour d'un dictionnaire quebecois"
Organization: Universite Laval, Ste-Foy, Qc, Canada
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:21:57 GMT

In article <13748@audetf> audetf@Software.Mitel.COM (Francois Audet) writes:
>In article <5447@disuns2.epfl.ch> riese@litsun.epfl.ch (Marc Riese) writes:

>]- Je ne vois pas comment le mot "flye'" est un anglicisme. D'accord, cela
>]  contient le mot "fly", mais alors ? Et son rapport avec un sens d'audace ?
>]  Est-ce simplement un faux frere ? D'ailleurs, le mot "track" ne rien a
>]  voir avec "se tromper".
>]
>]- Est-il vrai que toutes ces expressions, comme s'enfarger et gang de twits,
>]  sont utilisees, ou est-ce que le journaliste est a cote de la plaque ?
>
>Ces deux expressions sont tres utilisees. Cependant, "enfarger", au
>moins c'est francais (ou du moins, derive du vieux francais). Twit,
>c'est definitivement un mot anglais qui n'a pas sa place dans un
>dictionnaire francais.
>

Il y a une espece de croyance repandue selon laquelle les quebecois
sont les specialistes des anglicismes et que les francais, ou au moins
les dictionnaires francais, refletent ce qui devrait etre la norme.

Voici pour votre reflection quelques mots tires du Larousse, et donc
acceptables au Scrabble...
Dispatcher,  Dispatching,  Docker, Drag,  Dreadnought,  Dressing-room,
Drugstore (alors que pharmacie est si joli...), Dyke, Engineering, Fading,
Feeder, fifty-fifty (???), Finish,  Fixing,  Flipper,  Flirt, Flood, 
Folk-song, Footing,  Freak,  Freezer,  Funboard,  Goal, Goal-average (?!?),
Grape-fruit, Happening,  Hard-top, Homespun, Home-trainer, Honing, 
Horse-power (pourquoi pas cheval-vapeur ?), Ice-cream (?!?), In-board, Insight,
Jingle, Jumbo-jet, Kick, Kitchenette, Knickers, Knock-down, Lapping, Leasing,
Lifter, Living (-room, presumement)...

J'ai utilise seulement la moitie de ma liste (reference, Le petit Larousse).

Alors, entre vous et moi, Twit ca a quand meme un certain charme, non ?
Tant qu'a se faire catapulter des anglaiseries par nos cousins d'en face, et
des moches a part ca, pourquoi on ne compilerait pas les notres dans un
dictionnaire Quebecois ???

Mon opinion, et je la partage !

Jean-Remi Duquet
Departement de Physique
Universite Laval
Quebec


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From: yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave Shariff Yadallee)
Newsgroups: can.francais,can.politics,can.general,soc.culture.canada
Subject: JOyeuse fete/ Happy Holidays
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 05:27:14 MST
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Joyeuse fetes a tous les Canadiens ei Canadiennes.

Happy Holiday to every felow Canadian.

Hopefully, we can straighten out the government via the ballot box!

Dave Shariff Yadallee (B. Sc. (Econ/Math) (U of Alberta 1990) )
 (yadallee@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca, userLIBE@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca)
God Save the Queen, God Bless us All! Remember! Jesus Saves!!
Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to One and All - John Lennon
Newsgroups: can.francais
From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
Subject: Re: "Polemique autour d'un dictionnaire quebecois"
Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:36:35 GMT

In article <13770@audetf> audetf@Software.Mitel.COM (Francois Audet) writes:
>Pierre Bourbonnais :
>
>>Nous reculons devant le lourd fardaud, mais au combien noble, de protege 
>>la langue francaise dans une amerique americaine!
>
>Ceci est probablement la citation de l'annee. Ca parle de proteger la
>langue, mais c'est plein de fautes. C'est hyper "teteux" et ca fait
>"vive la tourtiere aux bleuets".
>
>"fardaud" au lieu de "fardeau" -> 2 fautes dans le meme mot. Faut le faire.

Je ne comprend pas la double faute ici.  "aud" au lieu de "eau".

>"protege" au lieu de "proteger"
>"amerique" au lieu de "Amerique"
>
>Et ce n'est pas tout:  il y a egalement une "amerique americaine".
>-- 
>                                                       Francois Audet
>                                                           '
>        Telephone: (613) 592-2121 x1754     Facsimile: (613) 592-4784
>                          Internet: Francois.Audet@software.Mitel.COM

Ajoutons celle-ci:
O combien noble!

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Newsgroups: can.francais
From: robert@cs.UAlberta.CA (Robert Baron)
Subject: Prononciation de "Bosnie-Herzegovine" dans les media
Organization: University of Alberta
Distribution: can
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:25:02 GMT

J'ai remarque que les journalistes de la radio et de la television
prononcent tous (sauf quelques exceptions) "Bosnie`re-Ze'govine" au
lieu de "Bosnie-Herze'govine".  C'est-a-dire que les syllabes "nie"
et "Her" se fusionnent en "nie`re".  Je trouve deplorable que les
medias -- specialement les journalistes -- se permettent une telle
mollesse.

Ici, dans l'Ouest Canadien, je ne recois que Radio-Canada.  Est-ce
que cette faute de prononciation est aussi presente sur d'autres
stations de radio ou television au Canada (ou ailleurs)?

Robert Baron
From: audetf@Software.Mitel.COM (Francois Audet)
Newsgroups: can.francais
Subject: Re: "Polemique autour d'un dictionnaire quebecois"
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:08:41 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.

In article <5447@disuns2.epfl.ch> riese@litsun.epfl.ch (Marc Riese) writes:
]- Je ne savais pas que le Quebec a sa propre Academie.
]  Est-elle comme celle de la France ?

L'Office de la langue francaise. Non, ce n'est pas comme l'Academie
francaise. C'est beaucoup plus jeunes, et ce n'est pas compose
d'ecrivains.

]- Je ne vois pas comment le mot "flye'" est un anglicisme. D'accord, cela
]  contient le mot "fly", mais alors ? Et son rapport avec un sens d'audace ?
]  Est-ce simplement un faux frere ? D'ailleurs, le mot "track" ne rien a
]  voir avec "se tromper".
]
]- Est-il vrai que toutes ces expressions, comme s'enfarger et gang de twits,
]  sont utilisees, ou est-ce que le journaliste est a cote de la plaque ?

Ces deux expressions sont tres utilisees. Cependant, "enfarger", au
moins c'est francais (ou du moins, derive du vieux francais). Twit,
c'est definitivement un mot anglais qui n'a pas sa place dans un
dictionnaire francais.

-- 
                                                       Francois Audet
                                                           '
        Telephone: (613) 592-2121 x1754     Facsimile: (613) 592-4784
                          Internet: Francois.Audet@software.Mitel.COM
From: audetf@Software.Mitel.COM (Francois Audet)
Newsgroups: can.francais
Subject: Re: "Polemique autour d'un dictionnaire quebecois"
Date: 24 Dec 92 15:23:47 GMT
Organization: Un citoyen d'une amerique americaine

Pierre Bourbonnais :

>Nous reculons devant le lourd fardaud, mais au combien noble, de protege 
>la langue francaise dans une amerique americaine!

Ceci est probablement la citation de l'annee. Ca parle de proteger la
langue, mais c'est plein de fautes. C'est hyper "teteux" et ca fait
"vive la tourtiere aux bleuets".

"fardaud" au lieu de "fardeau" -> 2 fautes dans le meme mot. Faut le faire.
"protege" au lieu de "proteger"
"amerique" au lieu de "Amerique"

Et ce n'est pas tout:  il y a egalement une "amerique americaine".
-- 
                                                       Francois Audet
                                                           '
        Telephone: (613) 592-2121 x1754     Facsimile: (613) 592-4784
                          Internet: Francois.Audet@software.Mitel.COM
Newsgroups: can.francais
From: KDGG <KDGG@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Re: "Polemique autour d'un dictionnaire quebecois"
Organization: McGill University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:40:57 GMT

>Bien sur, il est du devoir des autres pays de langue francaise de reconnaitre
>les nouveaux mots creer pour de nouvelles realite: la drave, la poudrerie, la
>tourtiere, etc. Ce n'est pas la une excuse pour valider tous les nouveaux mots
>de notre langue quebecoise. Bien souvent, une expression quebecoise n'est
>qu'un ersartz d'une expression deja existante, chose qui est absurde. Pour
>te demontrer pourquoi c'est absurde Chritina, je vais te donner un exemple
>tres facile: est-ce que tu ferais deux fois le meme cours parce qu'il porte
>un nom different? Non bien sur! Cela va de meme avec la langue et bien
>d'autres realite.
>
>Le quebecois c'est une branche du francais; il devrait donc etre soumis
>aux memes regles, et peux meme en apporter de nouvelles, mais il ne peut
>changer celle qui existent deja sans un certain accord entre toutes les
>communautes francaises. C'est notre devoir de bien connaitre la langue
>francaise afin de lui donner un cachet valide de notre culture quebecoise,
>une culture dont je suis tres fier et dont je vois ternir l'image en
>lisant des lettres comme la tienne Chritina. Nous ne sommes pas ici pour
>faire une nouvelle langue, mais pas du tout! Nous sommes ici pour evoluer
>avec la langue et la langue evolue avec nous!
>
>Finalement Chritina, je crois que tu dois des excuses a Marc pour ta reponse
>des plus stupides. Je te conseille meme de ne plus relire ce groupe
>qu'apres avoir appris le francais.
>
>P.-S.: Chritina (je n'ai jamais oublie le 's'...), tu devrais apprendre le
>       francais avant de tenter de le montrer a un anglophone...
> '
>:*) Pierre de l'UNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE.
>
>.
Hmm. Si, le quebecois est une branche du francais. Mais est-ce que ce
fait doit nous obliger a suivre l'usage de la France? J'ai comme
l'impression que le Quebec n'est plus une colonie. Faire vivre le
francais au Quebec, ce n'est pas le preserver dans le formol. Si, au
Quebec, les jeunes vont parler francais, ce n'est pas le francais de
France qu'ils vont parler. Pourquoi est-ce que ne pas suivre l'usage
de la France serait "impur"?

Considere ce qui se passe aux Etats-Unis -- est-ce que l'anglais
americain est-il moins "pur" que l'anglais "anglais"? Le quebecois est
une langue vivante -- le bon usage, c'est l'usage qui est compris.
Se forcer a parler francais "de France", c'est parler une langue autre
que la notre, c'est se rendre moins compris, c'est essayer de se faire
passer pour un etranger en son propre pays! Apres tout, le francais, ce
n'est rien que du "mauvais latin", historiquement parlant... alors
parlons quebecois ou parlons latin!

                                           - Andrew Frederiksen
                                           (Twit professionnel...)

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