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"The CRA are up to their old tricks of trying to mislead Canadians, this time in response to the latest leak of tax haven information," Sen. Percy Downe, a Liberal-appointed senator who now sits as an Independent, said in a statement issued Tuesday. Downe referred to the CRA's assertion of a "billion-dollar investment" to combat tax evasion in the two most recent budgets, and said the agency had in fact spent less than $40 million of that money. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/11/07/paradise-papers-canada-losing-billions-more-than-estimated-to-offshore-tax-havens_a_23269548/ X

I was emailed a good question today by my Canadian cousin. What are they all saying about this Trump stuff in New England? It took me a few minutes to respond...I started by recalling that I told a friend that one of those Nazis posters images had been outed as a guy from Boston. My friend said theres lots here. Nobody says shit publicly here outside of the odd bumper-sticker (Obama's still far outnumber the Trumps *wink wink*)....but its so divisive. The Dems are tagged as bleeding heart, sell the farm, snowflake liberals and the GOP are tagged as Nazi knuckle dragging, brain-dead, numb-skulls. It is so divisive with the Obama haters and the Trump haters you could cut the tension with a knife. Hillary wasn't even the core wedge....its was black vs white. This society has never gotten over its slavery differences and its worse because the communities are so fukking different its like being in two different worlds from a white neighborhood or a black neighborhood. The ethni

Shout out to Canada for free healthcare and no wars and clean water and poutine and equality for everyone.

The Scottie McLaren/Tommy Freeman Golf-Gimli My time here in Winnipeg is coming to an end. Things have been crazy last couple days. Wednesday I got an email saying the rental property was now being sold so my house in Ahmerstburg is gone. Next... my son called and asked I come watch kids or they need $ for summer school. Then... yesterday my realtor buddy called and we discussed how I should delay house till spring and shop for an equitable cost neutral home, rather than subsidize mostly unoccupied rental properties.  I have meshed those problem pieces together and come up with a NEW REVISED PLAN. A long story short, sadly I will not be getting my stuff out of storage yet but, I will be leaving for Windsor on Thursday to store more shit and drive to Boston later. 

Star date may 20 2017: I just saw the trailer on Facebook for the Seth McFarlane satirical Star Trek version called The Orville. Fn hilarious. Check it out: https://youtu.be/Yy9sKeCE8V0

I have been in Boston for almost a week. Weather is coolish and wet but no snow. I will be here for 3 weeks and then fly back to Winnipeg to get me car. I hope to spend a month or so golfing (if it doesnt snow) and then drive to Ahmerstburg and settle down for the summer. I got a tip on a little small house in town and will get my stuff out of storage and make that my summer home.

I have been struggling for a meaningful publication this month or miss my first monthly post in 10 years. "Today is the day"...as the line goes in the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. I got all my to do tasks completed over the last few weeks. Condo renos and deco completed and Visas, permits and licenses have all been renewed. I also attended my first committee meeting since retiring from the union almost 10 years ago. Roberts Rules of Order yay. It was the condo committee that is embroiled in a conflict with the past committee members and the present. It was comical watching an inexperience committee struggling to keep order in a meeting full of multilingual condo owners and bitter past members promoting chaos. I was hard pressed to remain silent while the walls of order slowly crumbled around a committee chairperson without a gavel. There was lots of finger pointing and blaming by old members and new that fueled the flames of conflict, besides the obvious jealous

Hey there.... I have come to that time in my winter home to get all my dux in a row. I have to renew my retirement visa and my motorbike license and my automobile license before I head back to Canada. Its all been done before so its not like its new ground to walk. Speaking of new ground I bought some property this trip. I purchased a modest condo and will be giving up my leased condo after this winter. I hope I enjoy owning one as much as I enjoyed this one. The Thai family here ran a very quiet, serene and tranquil little complex of apartments and condos and treated us very well. I will miss them and the ladies that do the domestics. Talk to you in March. Cheers.

"It's becoming increasingly clear that the aroma of bigotry infuses the whole operation, and anybody who aligns too closely will end up sharing in the stench,"  David Brooks  

The Con Bigots and the Quebec City Massacre I wonder how Kellie Leitch, our sad Trump impersonator, is feeling today. Not so good I imagine. Or should I say, I hope. For on Saturday as I told you yesterday, she attacked a private member's bill designed to crack down on violent Islamophobia. Only to look like an idiot or a beast the very next day.