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Opportunity: Canadian Dollar Stabilizes, Somewhat

Things have started to turn around for the Canadian dollar in the second quarter of 2025. It hit a 22 year low in January of 2025. Investors and property owners, who have been swooning at the high burn rate in their travel plans and property maintenance abroad, may wish to consider recent more positive trends and consider some risk mitigation opportunities now that the dollar is stabilizing somewhat.  

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Managing the managers in a family business: Terry Jenkins

What can an advisor who has the usual mix of clients learn from a family office business serving the ultra high net worth? A lot, according to Terry Jenkins, president of BMO Private Bank, U.S., in Chicago and a speaker at this year’s Distinguished Advisor Conference.

Stats Can revises 30 years of data on the income of Canadian Households

Statistics Canada released revised data on the income of Canadian households for 1981 though 2010.

Elimination of the HST in BC: Transitional rules for real property

  If you are in British Columbia you are probably aware that on the 31st of May 2012, the legislative assembly of BC passed Bill 54 to re-implement the provincial sales tax (PST) in the province, alongside the goods and services tax (GST), ridding the province of the much-criticized harmonized sales tax (HST).

Evelyn Jacks: Year end tip -  Manage size of net family income

Back in the early 1970s, tax reform, which largely introduced the taxation framework we still live with, considered whether the family, including dependants living in the home, should be taxed as one unit on one tax return.
 
 
 
Knowledge Bureau Poll Question

Do you believe Canada’s tax system based, on self-assessment, has suffered under recent changes at CRA and by Finance Canada? If so, what is the one wish you have for tax reform?

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    69.8%
  • No
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    30.2%