The Pre(tend)-Post-Mortem
It is hard to be optimistic about the Canadian economy today. Reports are negative. The Canadian dollar is losing value. …
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Year End Tax Planning III
Registered Retirement Savings Plan contributions to be deductible for 2015 do not need to be made by December 31, 2015. …
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Year End Tax Planning II
Shares with unrealized capital losses in your investment portfolio must be sold in order to use the loss. The shares…
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Year End Tax Planning I
A number of items are deductible only if they are actually paid. An example is a charitable donation. For a…
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Nicholas Winton
I discovered Nicholas Winton this week. I had never heard of him before. In 1939 he saved 669 Czechoslovakian children…
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Taking Security
In 1999 we suggested that if you had a shareholder loan to your company, you should secure it with a…
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I Don’t Know
The wise man knows he doesn’t know. The fool doesn’t know he doesn’t know. – Lao Tzu, author of Tao…
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Playing at Work
At Lazer Grant, we don’t just work. We play. We play games to win. And when we win we get…
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Keeping a Confidence
I recall reading in The Ethicist, a column in The New York Times Magazine, about a doctor who had agreed…
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Being Creative
I have always admired those who can create. The process of starting from nothing and ending up with something is…
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Too Much of a Good Thing
How would you like your workplace to be? Would you like to have independence there? Would you like it to…
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Robots
We have a robot. We call him Sheldon. His cousins have been on The Big Bang Theory, NCIS: Los Angeles…