This is the last day to file tax returns.As most people know, the Canada Revenue Agency will assess a penalty if the return is not filed in time. A postal mark prior to midnight tonight will do. The failure to file penalty is separate a more serious than the interest that must be paid on unpaid taxes. The penalties start at five per cent of the amount owing, plus one per cent of the balance owing for each full month that the return is late — and compound daily interest is charged on the total amount due. If you file late more than once in a four-year period, the penalties can double.
Delightful post script to the Spring Fair
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Lorna Krawchuk has added a delightful post script to the St Cuthbert’s Fair : We had a gorgeous, if not warm, day for the St. Cuthbert’s Spring Sale. There was a steady stream of people coming to check out the huge selection of books, check out our treasures, art gallery – and of course, the home baking. You could enjoy a BBQ lunch on our Green, while watching the kids play parachute games. By 2 pm when the sale was over, we were very pleased with our financial results – and by 4 pm, you’d never have known there had ever been a special event at the church, other than the sale sign hanging from the oak tree out front.
She crawled across ice to escape N. Korea
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Toronto police continue to search for a 13-year-old girl and her brother, both of whom are refugees from the regimented life of North Korea. Police are concerned for the girl, Sol Han, because of her young age. Sol and her brother entered a half way home for refugees in Toronto in January but soon disappeared, apparently unable to cope with an alien society. Experts say it’s not uncommon among those who have managed to escape from places like North Korea. The brother and sister showed incredible courage and determination in making their escape. It’s generally thought they had to crawl across the frozen reaches of the Yalu River (above) to get to China. The bridge above is a symbol of China’s ambivalence about North Korea. The Korean side was bombed out during the Korean War. It has never been repaired. On what’s left, the Chinese have built a tourist platform so foreigners can gawk across at the desolate capital of Pyongyang. Of course, the Chinese could easily afford to re-build the bridge, but they haven’t.
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Many women may think birth control pills and condoms are better at pregnancy prevention than they actually are, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 4,100 women who were seeking birth control, about 45 percent overestimated the effectiveness of the Pill and condoms. They also had too much faith in hormonal birth control patches, vaginal rings and injections, according to findings reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The findings point to a need for better education on how well different birth control methods work with “typical use” in the real world, study leader Dr. David L. Eisenberg told Reuters Health.
Feeding the hungry at the St. Cuthbert’s Fair
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This gentleman allowed that cooking up these succulent hot doga and sausages made him hungry. But he resisted temptation and kept on cooking. Right, two sisters show us the food of which they are about to partake. Good job, ladies. All of this in the churchyard at St. Cuthbert’s Spring Fair and Sale.
Dear Ashley Madison: Buy an Ad
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It’s a journalistic embarrassment how an operation as sleazy and unimportant as Ashley Madison.com gets editors to turn somersaults by sending a plain brown envelope of postal codes to the City Desk. Would it be time to assign a reporter to check out the adulterous 400,000 person membership (wherever they reside) as genuine? Apparently not. Hey, adultery is adultery. So what if the ranks of those supposedly seeking afternoon quickies contains classes of giggling freshmen. No adultery in Leaside? Maybe that’s because most of the people there are really married. You still have to be married to commit this act, you know. Dear Ashley, buy an ad. You belong in the back of NOW with the rest of the non-news sex advertisers.
St Cuthberts Fair Saturday morning at eleven
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A reminder that the St Cathberts Church Spring Fair and Sale gets underway tomorrow (Saturday) morning. It begins at 11 am. Previous post.
Residents split down the middle over parking
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South Bayviewites may be extra happy they live in a neighborhood with reasonable parking in light of the nasty dispute that has pitted one side of Macpherson Ave against the other. The sharp north-south division surfaced during the first of two neighbourhood meetings regarding eliminating the fair-minded policy of alternate street parking on Macpherson. About 30 people turned out at Belmont House on Wednesday night to hear well-organized people from the north side make their case to put all the parking permanently on the south. What you say? Why? Apparently the north-siders have been conspiring away for months to get rid of the cars in front of their houses. They were able, in fact, to generate the staff report that says moving parking permanently to the south side of the street would create 10 more parking spaces. (It also says street cleaning would be more difficult.) Their demands were read by a youngish Yuppie, who is obviously the leader. While his presentation was forceful, it was not strong on logic. His statement did not explain how adding 10 spaces to Macpherson would solve probldem parking. Three City staff and Ward 27 Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam were present. The City staffers distributed a map of the 5H parking area and disclosed that there are 347 spaces for permits and only 300 have been issued. The area includes Marlborough Place, Marlborough Avenue, Macpherson, Molson Street, both sides of Roxborough Ave. W., Gibson Avenue, Ramsden Park Road and Pears Avenue. The south side residents have asked for time to answer this surprise attack. With files from Yonge and Roxborough News
Witmer resignation opens door to Lib majority
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Elizabeth Witmer, PC front-bencher and MPP for Kitchener Waterloo, said today she will quit the Legislature to become the head of the Ontario Workers Safety and Insurance Board. This will prompt a byelection in Kitchener Waterloo which ciould result in the election of the single Liberal member which the governmet needs to achieve a majority .
Hockey dreams writ large in Markham
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Markham Town Council has approved a financial partnership which will include multi-millionaire Rudy Bratty, Graham Roustan of Bauer Sports and the Town to build a 20,000 seat arena near Highway 407 and Kennedy Rd. Council voted 11-2 last night to borrow $162.5-million over 20 years. (That would buy an extra ice pad or two for Leaside Arena). Roustan and Bratty’s group is putting up the other half and Markham will own the arena. Everyone is turning the sound down on an NHL franchise for Markham. How could the NHL do that after stonewalling Hamilton for decades? But the sovereign NHL does whatever it likes.
Royal diamond goes on sale at Sotheby’s
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Sunrise street robbery in Yorkville
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Toronto Police Service report: A 28 year old female reports that on April 20, 2012 at approximately 0615 hours, she was in the area or Yorkville Avenue and Hazelton Avenue when she was approached by a male suspect. The suspect produced a handgun and made a demand for cash. The victim complied. The suspect then fled the scene northbound on Hazelton Avenue. No injuries were sustained by the victim. Police are requesting the assistance of the public in identifying the following described person in connection with this offence. Description of Suspect: Male, 26 to 32 years, 5’8” to 5’11”, 161 to 169 pounds, medium build, short black hair.