Glen Cross

Volleyball Dad...Family Chauffer...one lucky sob...

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@gmforbes35 Technically, they’re not cumulative, so 29%. But still a significant reduction.
And not every department is 50/50 labour to operating cost, but even at that, it’s 29/2=14.5% which is around 40k jobs. Still sucks tho.

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@corydtweets @Sportsnet No one crying here. Edmonton has beat the wheels of Dallas for 114 minutes and their only response is to hope the league steps in and punishes someone for a hockey play. Playoff warriors, play (see Draisaitl vs LA 2022 (?) playoffs)

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@Sportsnet Is slashing a five minute major? Ever? (Well, Pietrangelo trying to break Drais’ shoulder may be the exception 🤷‍♂️) Pure Theatre here. They know they are outweighed in this series and now they need the NHL to help them. Dallas playing boys hockey in a men’s league. 🤷‍♂️

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@SportsnetSpec Hintz diving, then leaving in a game they weren’t winning is pure theatre.
He’ll be full skating tomorrow morning before coming to YEG unless there a pulse of a DoP review then he’s “Day to Day”.
#playoffs2025

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

This is a too common occurrence with CDN HNW corps and individuals unfortunately

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

BREAKING: I followed the trail of Mark Carney’s money-laundering scheme

I’m writing to you from a tax haven called the Isle of Man. I’ve never seen any place quite like it. It’s a little island between Ireland and the UK, home to 85,000 people. And it’s famous for two things: its annual motorcycle race, and billionaires avoiding their taxes.

That’s why I’m here: because two and a half years ago Mark Carney set up a shell company to avoid paying taxes in Canada. The Isle of Man has very few taxes — no capitals gains tax, no inheritance tax, no wealth tax. Income tax is just 22%. Corporate taxes are 10% or less.

But the Isle of Man does something more important: it allows oligarchs from around the world to pay taxes on their global income to the Isle of Man. So they can operate around the world, but choose to pay a fraction of their real tax obligation in the Isle of Man.

And perhaps the most important feature of the Isle of Man’s tax scheme is the secrecy. Anyone can set up shell companies hiding the true ownership of any business. That’s why this place is full of Russian oligarchs, international drug dealers and semi-legal online casinos. They can hide their tracks.

Which brings us to Mark Carney, the chairman of Brookfield Asset Management until just a few weeks ago. He set up a complex corporate structure to avoid paying Canadian taxes. To him, taxes are for the little people. In the video, I show how I searched the corporate registry to find Brookfield IOM’s address, and to find the identity of their sole director: an 88-year-old man named Leslie Commins.

The registry gave the address of Brookfield IOM’s headquarters, but it wasn’t in an office tower, or an office at all — it was just Leslie’s small apartment. Of course, 88-year-old Leslie Commins isn’t the real owner of Brookfield IOM. He’s what they call a “straw man”. Of course his apartment isn’t the world headquarters of Brookfield IOM. Of course the whole thing is a sham, to pretend that Brookfield IOM does business in the Isle of Man, so it can pay its global taxes there.

Hey, wouldn’t it be nice if you could do that? If you ran a barber shop, or farm, or restaurant, and instead of paying all the taxes and regulations Canada piles onto you, you could just have a guy in the Isle of Man saying that’s your world headquarters, so you’ll pay all your taxes there?

It’s obviously tax avoidance, which is why so many shady characters put their money in the Isle of Man. Like Mark Carney.

I thought it was eye-opening to see how casually the man who was “selected” to become our prime minister, engages in unethical tax-dodging for his well-connected friends. And remember, Carney has never answered where he personally paid taxes last year, or the year before, or the year before that. Did he pay them in the Isle of Man, or some other tax haven?

Obviously that’s a question that the CBC would never ask. (I put eight questions to the Liberal Party in writing today, but obviously they wouldn’t answer these questions, no matter who asks them.) We’ll keep at it.

REPORT by @EzraLevant:

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@CCFR_CCDAF @KevinKleinwpg @CMHC_ca Seemingly no end to the LPC wanting one hand in your pocket. Not a fan of this idea for sure.

[CCFR/CCDAF @CCFR_CCDAF]

WATCH: Winnipeg Sun Columnist @KevinKleinwpg says federal crown corporation @CMHC_ca, with help from Carney Liberal ministers, want to tax Canadian home equity savings (if you're a home owner, that's you), worth approx. 4.7 Trillion dollars. Read more below ⤵ #cdnpoli #elxn45

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

“I need to have on my resume, so I can get a job when this thing is over, that I bankrupted Tesla.”

This is an outright admission the top Tesla boycott organizers’ personal financial prospects depend on taking down Tesla, and they must succeed in order to get paid.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Fact check: True. Not a single mention of the outrageous LPC candidate Paul Chiang Chinese bounty scandal

In fact, this was their lead story.

CBC News never fails to cover for the Liberals when confronted with an existential crisis @CBCNews @ianhanomansing

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

Whatever your political stripe, this is just wrong in so many levels.

[Michael Chong 🇨🇦 @MichaelChongMP]

1/ Today’s Globe story is a retelling of previously aired allegations - with new info that Mr. Poilievre’s leadership campaign was targeted.

As someone who’s been targeted by foreign interference, I’d like to give my perspective.

#cdnpoli

https://t.co/sCVC0F8gxf

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@shanebacon I’ll give you three:
1) Teeing it up “just” in front of the blocks.
2) The Breakfast ball
3) Driving lyour cart off the cart path by tees and greens.
🤷‍♂️

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@zdansuper @ReidSolodan @CanmoreGolf @Albertagsa Congrats Reid!

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@paullanglois101 Louis’ Pub on UofS campus probably fall ‘87 or early ‘88.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

How do you like them apples?

PART 1

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@LouStagner Vehemently disagree.
“Rub of the green”. Always was. Always will be. Anything else they’d be playing “winter rules”, and these guys (and gals) are not your local members.
Play it as it lies.
That’s how they do it.

[Hannah Gregg 🇺🇸 @hannahbggg]

I can’t think of an easier way to explain this 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@DonaldJTrumpJr Well, by this, I’d say, at least we saw his tax returns….

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@CallawayGolf @ahadwingolf Shoulda said, “Next time, I’ll send Conners in first!” Cheers!, and good luck this weekend 🙌

[Glen Cross @evenpar72]

@J_Georgeson26 @bscrizz @worldhockeyrpt Minot??

[Anthony Silkwood @Silkwood_AJ]

Game changer behind the plate. Continuing to increase physicality. Will make a splash in any conference.

#Cobras🐍