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hansaboy
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My wife came home from Toronto recently, and she loves the city and the people!
She goes there once a month, and she has noticed the different attitude they have nowadays to the US and A...🙁

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My wife came home from Toronto recently, and she loves the city and the people!
She goes there once a month, and she has noticed the different attitude they have nowadays to the US and A...🙁

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She was lucky to get that maple syrup out, it’s one of our strategic resources 😉
 
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Canada is a great country full of wonderful people. So much so that I married the best girl in Montréal. Ive been lucky to travel all over Canada and made quite a few lifelong friends.
My Canadian Mother-in-law passed away recently and we’ve been working to settle her estate. As an outsider, it has truly been eye opening. The province and city are taking the lion’s share of my Mother-in-law’s lifetime of hard work. It seems like punishment for success. Don’t get me wrong. She lived a great life. There is a value to that but WOW! Nonetheless, that’s a Canadian prerogative. Not mine.
P. S. Although I prefer corned beef to smoked meat, Montréal steamies are better than Chicago hotdogs 😀
 
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Canada is a great country full of wonderful people. So much so that I married the best girl in Montréal. Ive been lucky to travel all over Canada and made quite a few lifelong friends.
My Canadian Mother-in-law passed away recently and we’ve been working to settle her estate. As an outsider, it has truly been eye opening. The province and city are taking the lion’s share of my Mother-in-law’s lifetime of hard work. It seems like punishment for success. Don’t get me wrong. She lived a great life. There is a value to that but WOW! Nonetheless, that’s a Canadian prerogative. Not mine.
P. S. Although I prefer corned beef to smoked meat, Montréal steamies are better than Chicago hotdogs 😀
Smoked meat is way better than corned beef! 👍

But anyway…

There are no inheritance taxes, as such, federally in Canada. There are capital gains taxes on some assets in the estate (unless passed to a spouse), but the primary residence isn’t taxed. So if there are income properties, then yes 50% of the value would be subject to capital gains taxes.

Registered retirement plans are considered to be withdrawn at the time of death, so they are taxed at the current rate.

Other than that, it’s mostly just the regular income tax on whatever income the deceased had in the last year.

So if your MIL was asset heavy of the type subject to these taxes, there will be money due of course. But the deceased is taxed, not the person inheriting the estate.

You do mention that it’s going to the city and province…this is Quebec and they have different laws there in many respects compared to the rest of the country. That whole “distinct society” thing…
 
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I can’t imagine why I haven’t posted this before now.

I like to make my own bread and I won’t use anything other than strong wholemeal flour made from 100% Canadian wheat.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/...e_code=1.AU8.X-1Y.3OvqERcj1sfT&smid=url-share

Canadian astronomers discovered K2-18b in 2017, while looking through ground-based telescopes in Chile. It was a type of planet commonly found outside our solar system, but one without any analog near Earth that scientists could study closely for clues.

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I know it's a bit of thread drift, but this science story is so cool! I can't wait to see if they are able to get any stronger evidence.
 
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Election day!

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Maeve was eager to help. For all the Canadians out there, regardless of your political stripe, get out there and vote!
 
Dsloan
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Hey Canadian friends, it looks like I'll be in Banff in August for 1-2 weeks. Any suggestions on activities for a nerdy family with a 7-year-old?

My kid's obsessed with dinosaurs, so I'm trying to see if we can rent a car and check out dino related stuff nearby.
 
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Hey Canadian friends, it looks like I'll be in Banff in August for 1-2 weeks. Any suggestions on activities for a nerdy family with a 7-year-old?

My kid's obsessed with dinosaurs, so I'm trying to see if we can rent a car and check out dino related stuff nearby.
Drumheller has an amazing dinosaur museum. 1.5 hr drive east of Calgary though.

Also, for the adults, Kananaskis valley has awesome scenery. The turnoff is 30 minutes east of Banff.
 
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Also, there is a world class fossil area, the Burgess Shale, at Emerald Lake. 30 minutes west of Lake Louise I think.

https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/bc/yoho/activ/burgess
Whoa, I didn't realize the Burgess Shale was so close! I'd love to check that out, but I can just hear my kid now, "but there's no therapods! I want late Cretaceous megafauna, not Anomalocaris fossils!"
 
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Congratulations on your new PM.
‘Build That Wall’

😉 Too soon?😀
 
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Hey Canadian friends, it looks like I'll be in Banff in August for 1-2 weeks. Any suggestions on activities for a nerdy family with a 7-year-old?

My kid's obsessed with dinosaurs, so I'm trying to see if we can rent a car and check out dino related stuff nearby.
Quite a ways east of Banff but worth it if you want to make your kid super happy!
https://www.albertaparks.ca/dinosaur.aspx
 
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Hey Canadian friends, it looks like I'll be in Banff in August for 1-2 weeks. Any suggestions on activities for a nerdy family with a 7-year-old?

My kid's obsessed with dinosaurs, so I'm trying to see if we can rent a car and check out dino related stuff nearby.
The only place to be is in Drumheller if dinosaurs are an interest. The Royal Tyrell Museum is world class! A few views. It is about a 2 1/2 hour drive east of Banff, but it is not to be missed.
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Congratulations on your new PM.
Thanks. After all the news organizations "called it" the lead narrowed to just 2 seats at one stage, but this morning things have shaken out so that although this is not a majority government, it's a very strong minority.

The Liberals have 168, Cons 144, Bloc 23, NDP 7, and Greens 1.

With the Liberals having a 24 seat lead, and the Bloc only having 23 seats, this means that it would take 3 parties voting together to bring down the government*. Still possible, but much more unlikely than the results earlier in the night would indicate. We'll have to see what Pierre Poilievre does since he has vowed to stay on as Conservative party leader, but then went on to lose his own seat. His party had big gains over the last election, but leading from outside parliament would be difficult as opposition leader.

* - the speaker is usually chosen from the governing party, so the Liberals will drop a seat effectively, but the speaker can vote in the event of a tie.
 
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The only place to be is in Drumheller if dinosaurs are an interest. The Royal Tyrell Museum is world class! A few views. It is about a 2 1/2 hour drive east of Banff, but it is not to be missed.
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I couldn’t agree more. It would be worth a side trip with an overnight stay!
 
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