Share Kudos to the Times Colonist for making StatCan to crunch out the numbers on HST. These are real, hard figures that are most realistic to the households. No matter what the economists say about how good the HST will be to the overall economy and how it will bring long term benefits for the [...]
Share Gordon Campbell will have a sleepless night. I bet he has not factored in “competition” from our neighbours when he and Stephen Harper cooked up the HST. Well, this is a free market, competition is always good. So Campbell says HST will help small businesses in BC, and that the HST will drive prices [...]
Share Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]. At the very beginning of BC’s Throne Speech, there appear these sentences: “As British Columbia endures its worst recession in 27 years, many are worried about their economic [...]
Share Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]. The HST is a done deal? I don’t think so. Premier Campbell said harmonizing the federal GST and the provincial sales tax as HST is the best thing [...]
Share whao….. according to the following story from The Province, after the HST: A new home with price tag $800,00 + $56,000 (currently PST not applied on new homes) – $20,000 (rebate) – $8000 (builders’ “input tax credit”) ——————————————————- + $28,000 You thought that’s the end of it? No! Realtors’ commissions will rise from five [...]
Share Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]. During the provincial election, the Liberal candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview, Kash Heed, sent a news release to the Chinese media (but not the English media), accusing the NDP, quite [...]
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