Official Canada Thread with Current News

[klein]

Alberta to cover more supplies used by diabetics

The Alberta government is covering more of the supplies used by insulin-dependent diabetics to monitor their blood glucose.
The province will fund up to $600 per person per year to pay for supplies like syringes, needles, test strips and lancets .

"This will lessen the financial burden on insulin-treated Albertans and support them in managing their diabetes," said Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne.
The Alberta Diabetes Institute is delighted with the extra coverage, which starts on July 1.

The $13.3 million in funding will help more than 20,000 insulin-dependent Albertans and 1,500 women with gestational diabetes.

 

[moreluck]

Is this going to be a new olympic event ??

Man Dies In 'couch Surfing' Road Accident In Canada | Fox News

 

[klein]

And yet, another reason why Americans should love us :

U.S. cashing in on Canadian shoppers

Canadian shoppers looking to cash in on the high Canadian dollar are being credited for helping boost tax revenues in popular cross-border destinations across the United States.
Canadian shoppers helped send sales tax revenues over the $400 million US mark for the first time, county officials in New York's Erie County say.

A recent report by the county comptroller's office projects the county would end 2011 with a $26-million budgetary surplus once the year's finances are tallied.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

And yet, another reason why Americans should love us :

U.S. cashing in on Canadian shoppers

Canadian shoppers looking to cash in on the high Canadian dollar are being credited for helping boost tax revenues in popular cross-border destinations across the United States.
Canadian shoppers helped send sales tax revenues over the $400 million US mark for the first time, county officials in New York's Erie County say.

A recent report by the county comptroller's office projects the county would end 2011 with a $26-million budgetary surplus once the year's finances are tallied.

This doesn't make sense---as of yesterday the exchange rate was even---$1 US was equal to $1 CDN.

 

[klein]

Hey, wasn't too long ago when we paid $1.50 for one $US.
You also need to remember that our average wages are much higher than those in the US, and that we also pay more for goods here.

You yourself have been to Montreal, can you imagine going there now and only getting 95cents to your dollar after exchange fees ?
It's quite expensive here !

 

[menotyou]

I have to agree. I just saw an exchange sign at sams the other day. 92 cents Canadian.

The Canadians shopping in Satertown and Syracuse amaze me. Where does the money come from???

 

[menotyou]

Hey, wasn't too long ago when we paid $1.50 for one $US.
You also need to remember that our average wages are much higher than those in the US, and that we also pay more for goods here.

You yourself have been to Montreal, can you imagine going there now and only getting 95cents to your dollar after exchange fees ?
It's quite expensive here !

No offense, but I wish the dollar was worth that much, again.

 

[pickup]

Hey, wasn't too long ago when we paid $1.50 for one $US.
You also need to remember that our average wages are much higher than those in the US, and that we also pay more for goods here.

That's , true, the value added tax(V.A.T.) makes the retail price in Canada higher than that of comparable goods in the U.S.A. . The Canadians near the border can come over, buy stuff at lower prices. When coming back, they are allowed to bring in a certain amount of declared goods without paying the customs fees(that would include the V.A.T. , I imagine). Then there is the stuff that goes over the threshold limit that can be hidden in plain sight such as wearing the nikes you just purchased over the border.

 

[menotyou]

The canadians that have their stuff delivered directly to my center are funny. They open the boxes right there and load the stuff into suitcases like they have owned it forever. Too funny. And the turkeys. What's with the turkeys??? Those busfulls go toHannaford and buy the Marval turkeys. Only one, though. Lol!!!

 

[klein]

Our first homicide case of the year.

Edmonton records first homicide of 2012


CBC News

Posted: Feb 21, 2012 2:24 PM MT

Police say the death of a 22-year-old man in a north Edmonton alley Sunday morning is a homicide.

 

[moreluck]

So the child has a brilliant imagination, uses it in her art.....it gets her father arrested. Now she will lock up her imagination forever because she has been shown it's a bad thing!


(SNN) — Police arrested a Kitchener, Ont., father outside his daughter’s school because the four-year-old drew a picture of him holding a gun.
Jessie Sansone told the Record newspaper that he was in shock when he was arrested Wednesday and taken to a police station for questioning over the drawing. He was also strip-searched.

“This is completely insane. My daughter drew a gun on a piece of paper at school,” he said.
Officials told the newspaper the move was necessary to ensure there were no guns accessible by children in the family’s home. They also said comments by Sansone’s daughter, Neaveh, that the man holding the gun in the picture was her dad and “he uses it to shoot bad guys and monsters,” was concerning.

 

[cachsux]

Thank goodness she didn't draw a pic of him holding a bottle of beer and a bag of candy. So much for that free Canada.

 

[klein]

Canada budget deficit shrinks in December

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Higher tax revenues helped Canada cut its budget deficit in the first nine months of the 2011-12 fiscal year to C$17.69 billion from C$27.37 billion in the same period the previous year, the government said on Friday.


Oh yeah, "my" Germany is doing well, too

German public deficit shrinks to 1% of GDP

Robust growth and record low unemployment enabled Germany to slash its public deficit last year, even if Europe's biggest economy ground to a halt at the final months, data showed on Friday.

 

[pickup]

Canada budget deficit shrinks in December

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Higher tax revenues helped Canada cut its budget deficit in the first nine months of the 2011-12 fiscal year to C$17.69 billion from C$27.37 billion in the same period the previous year, the government said on Friday.


Oh yeah, "my" Germany is doing well, too

German public deficit shrinks to 1% of GDP

Robust growth and record low unemployment enabled Germany to slash its public deficit last year, even if Europe's biggest economy ground to a halt at the final months, data showed on Friday.

Kartoffelkopf!

 

[moreluck]

Kartoffelkopf!

Bless You !!

 

[Babagounj]

Seems that the Nanny state also applies up north too.
Madness after girl, 4, draws gun pic at school


A father has been arrested, strip-searched and hauled in for questioning – all because his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun at school.
“I’m picking up my kids and then, next thing you know, I’m locked up,” Jessie Sansone, 26, told the Waterloo Region Record in Canada. “I was in shock. This is completely insane. My daughter drew a gun on a piece of paper at school.”
Sansone, a Kitchener resident, had arrived at Forest Hill public school to pick up his children when he was called to the principal’s office. Three police officers informed him he was being charged with possession of a firearm. Then he was escorted out of the school, handcuffed and locked in the back of a police car.
According to Sansone, he didn’t learn what had caused the investigation until hours after his arrest. Other officers arrived at his home, where they instructed his wife to come to the police station and took his other three children to Family and Children’s Services to be questioned.
“Nobody was given any explanation,” Sansone’s wife, Stephanie Squires, told the paper. “I didn’t know why he was being arrested. He had absolutely no idea what this was even about. I just kept telling them. ‘You’re making a mistake.’”
Sansone was forced to undergo a full strip search.
The school principal, police and child welfare officials said there would need to be an investigation to determine whether he had a gun in his home that children could find.

 

[klein]

Yeah, I suppose the American way is much better. NO need for prevention there, right ? :

Boy, 9, charged in shooting of third-grade classmate

PORT ORCHARD, Washington (Reuters) - A 9-year-old Washington state boy accused of bringing a loaded handgun to third-grade, where it went off in his backpack and critically wounded a classmate, was charged on Thursday with assault and unlawful possession of a firearm.


Two students told investigators that the boy had earlier told them that he planned to bring his dad's gun to school and run away, prosecutors said in the papers.

 

[klein]

No surprise, I would think :

British expats rate Canada top place to live in annual survey

Canada is tops for British expatriates, according to a survey by the UK's NatWest Bank.
For the third straight year, Canada has ranked No. 1 on the NatWest International Personal Banking Quality of Life Index, Reuters reports.

Emirates 24/7 reported 82 per cent of those surveyed ranked Canada as having the best quality of life experience. Some 88 per cent said our multicultural society was a factor, while 90 per cent mentioned healthcare and 96 per cent said Canada's human rights and freedoms allowed them to feel safe and secure.

Canada also topped NatWest's Well Being Index, which comprises six self-assessment categories: state of health, degree of prosperity, sense of belonging and acceptance, life satisfaction, sense of achievement and overall level of happiness.

 

[texan]

Who are the Freeman?

Freemen movement captures Canadian police attention.

Freemen movement captures Canadian police attention - Canada - CBC News

 

[moreluck]

.."group called the Freeman-on-the-Land ............"

Seems like according to the title this will always be just a ONE MEMBER club .....unless they change the name to "freemen".