Shirley Tillotson

I was the reverse!

It was between noon and two today, Wednesday.

Congratulations to Matthieu Caron for being named a Finalist for the 2025 Wilson Book Prize!

Montreal After Dark examines how control over the night remained a persistent obstacle to Montreal’s ambitions during the second half of the twentieth century.

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Homemade protest sign that reads "Cuts to the Arts takes a toll." The ascenders on the letters L in toll and the exclamation mark are painted in red and white stripes like the Tufts Cove iconic smokestacks

A fine day for a big crowd celebrating and defending arts, culture, and heritage programs in N.S.

I am happy to report that there were no "counter-protesters" out there saying "F*** Museums"! "Down with Books!" "Nova Scotia music sucks"

Protest signs about arts, culture, and heritage cuts. On Granville Street in Halifax with an office building in the background

One of the chants:

"Bring back the HST! Don't cut our community!"

Reverse that 1% HST cut and the museums and festivals and music and Nova Scotia publishing are secure again

There's always a market for tax info that fuels the smug critic, from any perspective. But that's just about ego and narrow self-interest

If there's a single good reason for studying tax seriously, it's the lessons it offers in seeing and weighing multiple conflicting perspectives

Remembering the frequent comments from a couple of years back that there was no point in the US/Canada/Australia etc doing anything to decarbonise because what about China.

Well, indeed, what about China?

During a conversation about something else, an American friend recently said “I hear there’s a separatist group in Alberta now.”

My response: “There have always been separatists in rural Alberta. What’s different now is that they’re being funded by the US government.”

And she was like: 😬😬😬

All different kinds of battles. Hoping for your kiddo ♥️

That feeling when you work on an idea for a city that seems obvious to you, so you cross-check it the way a guy who brands as "stateofthecity' would and sure enough, other cities are already doing it that way.

The solution to your city's problems... almost always exist already somewhere else.

I would also like to see post combat bruises develop fully over their normal time span and normal range of colors.

Dick Francis's heroes used to suffer for weeks from the injuries inflicted on them in the course of their adventures. Proper!

Who Pays for Canada? Canadians can never not argue about taxes. From the Chinese head tax to the Panama Papers, from the National Policy to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, tax grievances always inspire private ...

It really is remarkable. Scholarly tax conferences tend to be super interdisciplinary and so you come away with that perspective. But even books tend to be economics or law or political science.

Heaman and Tough, eds. Who Pays for Canada? might be a text book? share.google/86T0If48UIMk...

In the short term, bite the bullet and spread the burden with modest tax increases and work harder to link tax incidence to ability to pay. Property tax isn't especially well designed in that respect.

I haven't yet dug into the provincial cuts.

There are things I don't know yet, haven't looked into enough. The timing may be down to credit-rating change. Fillmore and Houston can rely on a widespread appetite among electorate for tax cuts when facing economic headwinds. The cuts are aimed at things always deemed so-called "frills." 1/2

There's always a market for tax info that fuels the smug critic, from any perspective. But that's just about ego and narrow self-interest

If there's a single good reason for studying tax seriously, it's the lessons it offers in seeing and weighing multiple conflicting perspectives

I'm thinking the result of a good tax history course is that you can really understand what's right about all the competing tax positions.

And maybe you would learn what wrong with all of them, too.

But emphasising the latter would just be teaching students to be know-it-all jerks

As I said, maybe the small business tax-cheating is rough justice.

But those folks shouldn't get on their high moral horse about refugees any more than rich tax avoiders should

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An array of photographs showing big white snow banks that have been painted with spray can paint in a variety of brightly colored flowers, from a business called Glad Gardens

Reminds me of this FB post from March 2015

A waterfall in Bedford Ohio

Follow your urge to go outside if you can.

I was already living in a condo with indoor parking then, and I still remember it because of the hellish condition of the streets and sidewalks

And the weird regularity of storms landing on Wednesdays and messing with my weekly Wednesday seminar class

A teenager walking to a house with 6 foot snow banks

Does anyone remember March 2015 😂

So many voters consider getting a bit of their income in untaxable cash as only fair.

Can't afford to "give" 20% to the gov't!

No politician goes after those tax cheaters. It just doesn't make electoral sense. "Persecuting the little guy!"

Well yeah. Maybe that's rough justice. But lawful?

But goodness gracious, you'd think the world had ended, from the response. No, people shouldn't be given asylum who aren't eligible. Yes, weeding out false claims cost money. But we are curiously selective about the kind of fare-dodging we choose to get choleric about. If it's strict adherence to the law that concerns us, or the cost to the taxpayer for that matter, what about the hundreds of thousands of Canadians working on the fiddle, without declaring their income? The underground economy has been estimated to be worth about 2.5% of Canada's GDP - and to cost governments billions annually in revenue. But for some reason that doesn't excite nearly as much as comment.

Great to see @acoyne.bsky.social doing a variation on a classic (and reasonable) left wing rhetorical move.

The left version: "Welfare cheats? What about rich tax cheating?"

Coyne: "False refugee claims? If it's law-flouting you loathe, what about working for cash under-the-table?

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Just gonna leave this right here.

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Dozer really is an absolute star. What paws! What a boop-able nose!

Hah! I should've known you'd seen this already

Reminds me of this
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