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Tax Strategy: Two governments, but one RRSP commitment
The timing of RRSP deductions and withdrawals from Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIFs) were among the topics raised in the latest batch of reader letters. Here’s what they wanted to know.
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Tens of thousands march against tuition hikes
Tens of thousands of students and their supporters gathered at the foot of Mount Royal on Saturday for the latest demonstration against proposed tuition hikes in Quebec.
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Man, 20, arrested after vandalism at Line Beauchamp's office
Unidentified by police, the man faces charges of mischief and theft over $5,000 after Friday incident
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Student protesters ramp up vandalism and violence
After eight weeks of mostly peaceful marching and chanting, the student demonstrations have taken mischievous turn in the past few days.
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Our Navy played role in Cuban missile crisis
Little, if anything, is written or known about the role the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy played in the Cuban missile crisis. Most of the world doesn't even know we were there.
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Red's notebook
It might not have looked that way on the telly, but there was plenty of physicality in the Boston-Washington 1-0 overtime series opener. Forty of the game's 69 hits were credited to Boston. Defenceman Dennis Seidenberg led the way for the Bruins with six, but his main target, Alex Ovechkin, had a game-high seven. Even Bruins coach Claude Julien noticed and gave Ovechkin a tip of the cap.
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Republicans to push for Keystone
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will revive efforts to quickly advance the stalled Keystone XL crude oil pipeline and insist that approval for the project be part of a long-term deal to fund highways and other infrastructure.
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Markets plunge as China growth Cools
Stocks pulled back Friday after two days of gains as investor confidence in the global economy was shaken by news that Chinese growth eased to the slowest pace in nearly three years.
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CRA in bad form: judge
If you plan to file your 2011 return electronically this tax season, a recent tax case decided last month could come in handy.
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Deficit could end early
A new report from Parliament's spending watchdog shows federal expenditures are on pace to be billions of dollars less than expected in the fiscal year that just ended, meaning the Conservative government could easily balance the books a year earlier than expected.
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At risk in Griffintown: important pieces of Montreal's heritage
Griffintown is once again in the news, and it always seems to come down to heritage.
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Ottawa's junk mail
" This week we each received letters from the federal government informing us of the change in the age requirement for the federal Old Age Security pension. Considering we are already receiving the pensions and the change in age will not affect us, this letter is a total waste of taxpayers' money. This information has been in the news for weeks.
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Let's reduce waste
" Re: "No time to waste in establishing a recycling plan" (Editorial, April 8).
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Kidnapping of diplomats a sign of rampant crime
Found wandering Cinjured in a small town before dawn, the Costa Rican attaché was the latest victim of kidnappers who have seized several diplomats and underscored the scale of Venezuela's crime problem.
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Romney's low tax rate provides ammunition to Obama backers
President Barack Obama released tax forms on Friday that reveal he will probably pay a higher tax rate on lower income than likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney in 2011, adding fuel to a Democratic election-year effort to raise taxes on the wealthy.
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Liberals, Conservatives split like North vs. South
Among the glacial boulders of the Devil's Den, the hecatomb where the Confederate Army nearly broke through to victory in the War Between The States, Michelle Hurrey and Mike Roberts were walking on Easter morning. When I met them, they were looking up at the hill called Little Round Top where the Union cannons thundered in July of 1863, taking in the new spring sunshine, and the history, and the horror.
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Dutch court says UN can't be prosecuted for failing to prevent Srebrenica massacre
The Dutch Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the United Nations cannot be prosecuted in the Netherlands for failing to prevent genocide against Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica near the end of Bosnia's war in 1995.
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Euroskeptical populist wave is cresting
Europe's ecoPnomic and debt crisis has boosted populist parties in many countries, making government harder, but political realities are catching up with the angry brigade. Some have hit an electoral ceiling, while others are on the way back down.
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Islamists rally against old guard in Cairo
Thousands of Egyptians protested in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday against a run for the presidency by former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, making an Islamist show of strength against a symbol of Hosni Mubarak's old guard.
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