They must teach spin at business school. Today for example we have eminent academics saying the GST should be applied to food and some other services in the name of efficiency. Of course extending the tax would get the government another $8 billion which it is now “losing out on.”  Don’t you love it? The government has got to get busty and  tax groceries because somebody is getting away with something.  Best spin this week. Of course the government is “losing out” on that money. That’s how it was planned.  Here’s news, The government is also “losing out”” on the fresh air tax, the let’s take a sail on the lake tax and the what were you two doing until 3 am. tax. Three are millions of taxes the government could apply but doesn’t. .It isn’t incompetence.  One of the sages pronouncing on the GST is Jack Mintz. He says other countries are more efficient in collecting taxes. Really. Nice for them. How do they spend the money? Stupidly?  There’s seems a good chance. 

A story in the Globe and Mail today details how a renovated bungalow on Randolph Rd at Hanna Rd sold for $198,000 over the listing price. The owners had asked $978,000 for the two storey corner home. They got $1,176,000. A brick bungalow built in the 40s, it was renovated on  its 26-by-109-foot corner lot by different owners over the past few decades. It now has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a family room addition with skylights and double patio doors to the wood-fenced yard. It was listed with.Sheree Cerqua, Royal LePage Signature Realty.  Story.

Seconds separate the Fort Steuben Bridge in Ohio from its other reality. For 84 years it carried traffic, automobile and horse, across the Ohio River. Engineers took it down Tuesday. These shots are milliseconds apart.     

When the green and white Dollarama sign finally goes up on South Bayview over the premises previously occupied by Shoppers Drug Mart, the space will have been vacant for close to a year. The big dollar store let it leak out some weeks ago that it had definitely taken the lease.  It was the neighborhood’s worst kept secret. But for many a mystery remains that the place is still vacant. Most everyone will understand that a company with more than 600 stores has lots to do. But a year?  It’s been speculated that the vacant triple store continued under leasse to the drugstore well after Shoppers moved out last Spring,. This would mean the landlord simply collected rent even though he had the next lease from Dollarama in his pocket. Then late last year, “Leased” signs went up on the papered-over windows. It was amusing because there had never been “For Lease” signs. Most thought that the signs indicated that the arrival of Dollarama was nigh. Apparently not. With March upon us there is no sign that the compamy plans to enter the premises any time soon. A peek through the cracks in the paper reveals a flat, uncluttered, moonscape of a space. When will Dollarama finally grace South Bayview?