Opinion

Dear Editor Although I am not directly affected by the Husky Oil Spill on the North Saskatchewan River, I attended the meeting in North Battleford on Sept.

When I got here, city council was not something that we covered. Since we have started covering council the past 10 months, we have discovered much about how a city is run.

It is time we took a serious look at baseball celebrations. The practices of holding beer and champagne filled celebrations seems a little redundant. Take the Toronto Blue Jays for instance.

While provincial and federal environment ministers were meeting in Montreal, to discuss carbon taxes, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trumped their discussions by announcing in Parliament, at the same time, he would be imposing a national carbon tax.

Prairie dwellers often talk wistfully and enviously of the brilliant fall colours of eastern and maritime Canada. Yet our autumn landscape can be (almost) equally beautiful, especially if you’ve planned for it.

For high net worth individuals and families, taxes resulting from the disposition of an estate can be onerous and can impede a smooth transition of a business to the next generation.

There is growing sentiment that the quantitative easing bubble (QE) has burst and negative interest rate policies (NIRP) are failing.

As I sat enjoying a cup of tea at a local shop, I noticed the words on the back of a young man’s T-shirt. I waited until he and his family got up to leave before speaking to him.

If the government is serious about sparking innovation and change, it should finish the work of transfer reform begun by the Chretien Liberals

Later this fall, the Canadian Securities Administrators will be publishing for comment ideas that will likely eventually eliminate the embedded trailing commissions related to mutual fund investments.