When the City of Ottawa turned garbage collection into a user fee in 2009, homeowners were told it would reduce taxes. Instead, costs jumped by 115%. This Big Cajun Man rant breaks down how a supposed “tax reduction” became one of the smelliest accounting tricks in municipal history.
New credit card rules were put in place in 2009 to try to protect Canadian consumers, but are they enough to really protect the potential victims of easy credit?
Unemployment in July 2009 plateau’ed. Was that the beginning of the end of the great credit bomb? For me it was, I started working again, finally.
Overspending and governments building up tremendous debts and running large deficits is worrisome to me.
When Nortel was delisted from the TSX that closed the books on things for most folks but Nortel Delisted doesn’t mean the end for those still fighting for $
