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I love community cookbooks! Especially old ones I find at garage sales. But thereâs a new one you should pick up. With the help of a few city councillors and several sponsors, including the Knights of Columbus, Welcome Home has released a charity cookbook. Pandemic Survival Faithful Favourites features 287 recipes from well-known locals like mayor Brian Bowman, MKO Grand Chief Garrison Settee and former Bomber kicker Trevor Kennerd. The recipes have helped these people and their families get through the past 14 months. The cookbook is for sale at Galarnyk Insurance at 696 McGregor Street, Petals Flowers at 640 Leila Avenue, Neumannâs Market at 2956 Henderson Highway and Welcome Home at 188 Euclid Avenue. Please buy a copy or two, theyâre just $15 each. Your support will help Welcome Home continue to do its good work in the community feeding the hungry.
Even while pushing $6 trillion in spending and mass-producing executive orders, Joe Biden has run the country much as he ran his campaign quietly. So long to that luxury.
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A pressing question from Kyle Smith: At what point do we decide that enough people have been vaxxed that pandemic restrictions should be tailored to them rather than to the unvaccinated?
Six months ago, the argument for keeping things closed was that letting strangers pack in together in businesses risked starting new chains of transmission that would ultimately claim the old and vulnerable. Six months later, we’ve arrived at the point where nearly all adults who want to be immunized have had an opportunity. Unless you’re immunocompromised or a young child, your risk of being infected is now essentially under your own control. So why should the vaccinated be kept out of restaurants, bars, concert halls, or sports events because some stubborn vaccine refuseniks won’t protect themselves by getting their shots?
Another Twist of the Knife: Introducing a New Death Tax
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May 1, 2021, 10:29 AM·28 min read
The devil is in the details, and while, when it comes to the Biden tax plan, Old Nick is not just lurking in the small print, one particular technical-sounding change proposed by the president is rightly attracting some attention: that is the plan to scrap the long-standing principle that if someone inherits an asset, his or her basis cost in that asset for capital-gains-tax purposes is not the price that the deceased may have paid for it (or its value when it came into the deceased’s ownership) but its market value at the time of the deceased’s death, a “break” that can be justified on grounds of basic fairness. That’s the case for various reasons, but one of the most obvious is that estate tax may well, in the case of the wealthiest, also be payable on what is left after the capital-gains tax has been paid.