Winnipeg - Of Interest

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by Biff

Alot of (KEY) people had to be looking the other way.

Yeah but everything is okay now according to Mayor Pee Wee and our brain dead city council, besides none of the players live in Winnipeg anymore! How anyone involved escaped charges is unconscionable!

[esquire]

I'm not sure when it went up, but there is now an electronic sign for Snap Fitness on Portage in the Dayton/Cheater Building... it's announcing a February opening.

[esquire]

Great WFP feature article about the desire for good walkable neighbourhoods in Winnipeg...

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/loc...413443373.html

The comments make it clear that more public education is needed, as this (along with any sort of article like it) inevitably triggers a deluge of "hurr durr but I don't want to live downtown", as though the only options were Portage and Main or Niverville with no in between. All neighbourhoods can and should be more walkable, whether it's Osborne Village or Sage Creek.

[joe denisovan]

Those mega machines in the Beaumont neighborhood; are they working on the legendary Calrossie Drain, or what?

[bomberjet]

Construction started on the pump station for the tranistway underpass that's going in. At Heatherdale and Wynne, just off Parker. Likely for that.

Otherwise it would be for the new Parker Pond, which is going in just north of where the transitway pump station will be. I don't believe any other equipment has been mobilized for actual transitway construction.

Failing all that, it could be aliens. That'd be interesting haha

[Biff]

The Parker Pond construction wont likely start until fall. They have to push some really big pipes under the tracks first.

[bomberjet]

That's right. The tender was out for that recently, running next to the Walmart across the tracks. There will also be large pipe installation in the Parker neighbourhood. Connecting across Pembina to the newly constructed river outfall.

[bomberjet]

So the LGA has set guidelines that bar wedding socials from having games like Plinko, loonie drops, or any game of chance because they're gambling. Just make it as difficult as possible to have any sort of fun and raise a small amount of cash.

They allow 50/50's and bottle draws. Yes, you can actually draw for a bottle of booze and not call it perfume holy cow! No limit on revenue from the booze draw.

Set a limit on the games to $500 profit, just as they do with the 50/50 draw. Which obviously is a game of chance as well. But they allow it.

Make it so difficult these buggers.

[Authentic_City]

Interesting article about a tax avoidance scheme using shell companies in the Isle of Man. Apparently, among the companies and individuals implicated in the scheme - orchestrated by KPMG - is the family that owns Nutty Club Candies.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kpmg...sham-1.4006469

I suppose these wealthy folks are just doing their civic duty by going to such lengths to avoid paying Canadian tax - as some suggested in a different thread - but it is interesting to see how these tax havens work.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kpmg...odge-1.4002778

Apparently the CRA put a stop to it in 2015, but offered amnesty to those who participated.

[bomberjet]

There's a difference between minimizing your taxes and avoiding paying taxes.

[Authentic_City]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

There's a difference between minimizing your taxes and avoiding paying taxes.

I think so, but I would imagine some folks think it's all fair game if they can get away with it. And these folks all got away with it.

[bomberjet]

Yeah, for sure. There's legal ways to do it. And there's then offshore tax haven schemes.

[OTA in Winnipeg]

Seems if you're rich enough you can get away with almost anything. Not one banker went to jail down south in 2008. On the other hand, every one of them in Iceland served/are serving time.

[wags_in_the_peg]

you never hear of this "nutty club" family in Winnipeg doing anything philanthropic.

[StNorberter]

Originally Posted by bomberjet

There's a difference between minimizing your taxes and avoiding paying taxes.

Tax avoidance = tax minimization = legal

Tax evasion = illegal

[Riverman]

Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg

you never hear of this "nutty club" family in Winnipeg doing anything philanthropic.

Maybe they don't want to?

[Wolf13]

Originally Posted by StNorberter

Tax avoidance = tax minimization = legal

Tax evasion = illegal

This, times a million.


If there is a legal way to not pay a tax, you're financially negligent if you do not pursue it, assuming it fits within your risk profile.

[Cyro]

Unfortunate.

Worth a look if your passing by some day.

The owners of Black’s Vintage Books and Antiques – a fixture in the 2000-block of Portage Avenue for almost 30 years – are getting ready to put the Closed sign up for one last time.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2017/03/1...lose-its-doors

[Ando]

Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Interesting article about a tax avoidance scheme using shell companies in the Isle of Man. Apparently, among the companies and individuals implicated in the scheme - orchestrated by KPMG - is the family that owns Nutty Club Candies.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kpmg...sham-1.4006469

I suppose these wealthy folks are just doing their civic duty by going to such lengths to avoid paying Canadian tax - as some suggested in a different thread - but it is interesting to see how these tax havens work.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kpmg...odge-1.4002778

Apparently the CRA put a stop to it in 2015, but offered amnesty to those who participated.

Apparently they're paying peanuts.

[1ajs]

interesting michael legary is now the chief inovation officer at the city a new position.
those that dont know who this is he got assentworks(now northforge) rolling by bring people together to build canadas largest all volunteer run maker space