Uhmm…..I thought only an evil communist dictatorship country would do this…not a democratic and morally advanced country, in 21st century no less!

Native Women in Saskatchewan sterilized against will:
http://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-sterilization-pressure-odious

MLS watch:

Apply and register as an international student. During first week of classes, show your PR or citizenship. You will then be charged domestic tuition.

As a bonus, you will be in classes with higher International real students so higher grades.

Might be easier to get into professional schools using this route.

Win win.

@82 If you never heard of methane before, you are really new to the game… Google rice fields and permafrost melt.

New in Vancouver: international students who are here only for the visa, and hardly go to class. Meanwhile domestic students cannot register for the courses they need, because they have second priority registration. Thank you Christy.

#83 Space It’s got nothing to do with “risk”. Here’s how this works: retail banks are in business to lend money. This generates a gross profit for them. Out of those profits taxes are paid. What is left over after taxes and operating expenses is net income. From this net income some money is paid to the owners (the shareholders) as dividends. The remaining money is held as retained earnings to further grow the business. They couldn’t pay themselves with their own dividend because they would have no earned income (no profit) to do so. Keep in mind dividends are only taxed on 50% of the dividend because of the dividend tax credit, which makes these dividends very tax efficient. This is because the money used to pay these dividends has already been taxed at the corporate level so the… Read more »

@HAMster – Uhm…it’s you that don’t have a grasp of proper risk or finance, if you don’t get what I’m saying. Or put it more simply, if the bank has $100K to lend out – either at 3% to some borrower who will then turn around invest the $$ into a sure no loss investments yielding 5%, or directly buy that sure no loss investment yielding at 5%. You have to be pretty dumb to lend $$ out at 3% when you can get 5%. Unless there is some very obvious reason they don’t. Considering the bears keeps attacking bulls or buyers for renting out condos at 2% – 3% cap rate, or buying when renting is supposedly cheaper, I would have thought you would be smart enough to figure this out. But I guess not, and hence why there… Read more »

@realist – I think we both agree that if there are tax evasion by these immigrants then CRA should really be going after them with full force and extract maximum pound of flesh. I personally think a lot of social benefit programs should be means tested as well – though I would exclude things like EI/CPP which are paid for by the premiums and should act more like insurance & DB benefits programs, and thus shouldn’t be mean tested. I personally don’t like it when I have to say pay the full price of daycare while someone far wealthier than me only have to pay 1/2 price cuz she has no income and wants to shop all day, instead of looking after the kid. Now, for the particular case of say foreign students that come here and study, and basically… Read more »

#74 Space
You postulated: Why don’t banks buy their own stock for the 5% div instead of issuing loans at 3%? That was embarrassing to read.
If I did understand you correctly, then you don’t seem to have a very good grasp of economics or equity investing.

Space:

You are right in the sense that if you want change, you have to be active politically. What has happened in Canada is too many shunned this responsibility and the barabarians have infiltrated the regulatory agencies in Canada like CMHC, Health Canada, OSFI, CRTC, Competitin Bureau, ICBC, etc.

It has become a fascist state…but you will be deluded into believing otherwise.

Look at a simple notion like ridesharing company UBER. They can’t even break the local political corruption with the taxi cartel.

There is a reason hidden foreign bank accounts exist.