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Senior Portfolio Manager & CFP® Professional serving families in AB, BC, ON, MB, PE, NU | #YEG | #Rotary |

Edmonton, Alberta
Joined September 2013
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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We now live in a world where the top scoring hockey player in the world is a German playing in Edmonton and the top rookie soccer player in the world is an Edmontonian playing in Germany. #nhl #yeg #Oilers #FCBayern #Draisaitl #AlphonsoDavies
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Unpopular opinion: The Alberta government has done an excellent job responding to Covid-19, from the start. At a time when other provinces were short PPE, we had plenty. Per capita testing has always been on the high side. We have an excellent information system.
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Hold on a sec... in other countries it's WRONG for a governing party to funnel public funds to newsmedia in exchange for favorable coverage? 🤔
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Bloomberg Originals
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BREAKING: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says he's quitting after prosecutors opened a probe into whether he funneled public funds to a newspaper publisher in exchange for favorable coverage.
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Says the guy who has literally prorogued his own work.
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Every day, women and men across the country work hard to build a better future for all of us. Today, we celebrate these workers and thank them for all that they do. Happy Labour Day, everyone!
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@CoryBMorgan @lamphieryeg The Canadian economy restarts when we replace this government.
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The #TMX pipeline, in all its glory, going up in my neighborhood (along the Anthony Henday, in #yeg )
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@RampCapitalLLC Momentum investors say black, value investors say red.
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U.S.-Canada Border House For Sale In Vermont/Quebec #RealEstate #Housing
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@HannahThibedeau What is this, a coin for giants?
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@MattWolfAB Friend, I'm mostly on your side (unlike most of ableg Twitter it seems), but this is a bad take. You can't make an equivalency between people whining about the policies a gov is imposing during a health emergency to those protesting long-standing multi-generational inequality.
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@levinepmc He has two types of speeches. The well rehearsed ones, like this one, where he speaks as if he thinks he's JFK or something with the dramatic pauses and all. The other type are the ones where we get more natural Trudeau and he talks about drink water box things.
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Are Easterners really this backward-thinking? It's Trudeau and his cabinet who are the children, and it's Alberta that gives the under-appreciated gifts.
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Docs working in hospitals are also usually incorporated. Most medical professionals are. The Libs are putting through $20B in extra spending largely by raiding the retirement savings of incorporated professionals.
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Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱
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Incredible. Minister admits capital gains increases could cause family doctors to leave Canada. Not to worry, though, she says, we’ll just bring in more foreign trained docs.
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@ctvqp @jkenney An excellent response. 🎯
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@globalnews @cathmckenna A carbon tax has zero effect whatsoever on the existential threat of climate change, however it IS an existential threat to Canada's unity, making it all the more important to vote you guys out in October.
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@GuyTalksFinance 30% in bonds??? Why would a 30 year old invest for their retirement like a 65 year old?
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Fellow UCPers: this is one of the NDP's programs that I think should be continued, unless it's being replaced with something better. It is objectively good for business, the economy, and families. #ableg
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This is Ashley. She’s a parent of 2 young children & a restaurant owner. Her children were at one of the $25/day child care centres whose program ended on June 30. She was able to start her business because she had affordable child care. #ableg
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Canadian mortgage rates are too high...
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Very sad news, #yeg , #yegdt . Just learned that Rice Howard Place (former Scotia Place) is renovating their food court and with it closing March 1, 2024, Amy is calling it quits. There are only 10 more months of Chicken for Lunch left. 😭
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(2/2) Government actions have been systematic and evidence-based (not totally random, like other provinces). I'm confident that the Alberta government will execute well, probably lead the country, on vaccine procurement, distribution and administration.
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@theJagmeetSingh Very worrying indeed. Any explanation as to HOW he will cut pensions? This video just seems to make an accusation that he will. Did Pierre say he will?
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@RogerJBaker @BenetH42 I thought metaphoric rock was only used to express someone's steadfastness.
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@cafreeland You could have raised cap gains inclusion a little bit for everyone. Most of your voters would be unaffected, because most assets in TFSAs/RRSPs/principal residence. Instead you chose to unfairly target medical professionals, entrepreneurs among others. The super-wealthy will
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Regarding government fiscal deficits, people often lament that their children and grandchildren will have to repay this debt. Don't worry: it's never getting paid back, by anyone. (1/n)
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Special interest groups, who are in the minority, are ruining our economy and causing hardships for the majority. It's time the majority fought back!
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@TELUS You still haven't deleted the tweets and cancelled your membership in the partisan group @smartprosperity (JT on page banner)
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@howardlindzon
Coronado 'Porch' Lindzon
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Which one of you coal lovers did this .. LOL
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@carlquintanilla What are the effect of Bush era bariffs and tarriers on the supply change?
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@manny_ottawa @MaximeBernier @jayshin2019 @MichelleRempel @AndrewScheer I was a big supporter, voted for him in CPC leadership, wrote off the CPC after the AGM and was hoping Bernier's movement to really pick up. He's lost me now. Just a fringe politician with some axe to grind against his former colleagues. Don't like Scheer, but Trudeau has to go.
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@levinepmc Canada's weakest minister is the Prime Minister.
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@margot_rubin My biggest fear around the APP proposal is exactly that: that the fund's managers will be politically influenced, and not able to put fiduciary duty to pensioners ahead of all else.
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I'd be more blunt and tell any young finance majors that if they want to break into the financial advice industry they should instead switch majors to marketing, with a psychology minor, and get a CFP.
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Advice For Young People Trying to Break Into the Finance Industry
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It's almost 2022 and defined benefit pension plans are practically extinct for new employees in the private sector. Why are they not in the public sector?
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@lendlpete It sucks to argue that fewer people died here of this awful disease, but those are the facts. No government has anything to be proud of, but the flack Kenney gets is totally unwarranted.
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@KristinRaworth 132 in a 100 zone on 2-lane. She was probably just passing a truck. You can't safely pass any slower than that.
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Dear automakers: please stop doing this. No one asked you to get rid of gear shifts. No dials. No buttons. I will NEVER buy a car that has a shifter like this.
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@sleepdurt @globalnews @cathmckenna Maybe climate change summits can be held via web conference or our Prime Minister can surf locally instead of flying to the other side of the country to catch a wave? Those types of lifestyle choices?
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75%+ Canadians would be better off financially deferring their CPP start until after age 65, yet 95% start their CPP at or before 65. Why is that?
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Real life client response: "Sell our rental property? Never! It only goes up in value. Stay in your lane, financial planner, you know nothing about real estate like we do."
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This B.C. couple should ditch their $1-million rental and invest in dividend stocks to boost retirement cash flow — via @financialpost
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WOW! Was Mark given any type of briefing notes before this or at least a rudimentary explanation of how corporate taxation works and his government's proposed changes to cap gains inclusion? Thank you Vassy for calling out his BS!
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CTV Question Period
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Will the federal government address doctors’ concerns over proposed capital gains tax changes? @markhollandlib says he is “deeply appreciative” of doctors but calls the changes “fair.” #cdnpoli More:
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@EddyElfenbein Did anyone ask Jericho if he identifies as a lion?
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@KristinRaworth This wouldn't look so bad if they had similarly packaged off Lloyd Robertson when he was the same age, in 1992.
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@AndrewScheer You can't seriously be advocating for free trade while at the same time protecting the milk cartel?
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@maxfawcett BAM! Alberta bans all new cocoa and banana plantations.
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I cannot believe they would be that deceptive.
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So, this in-house CBC graphic is obviously misleading. The pink bar should be a huuuuuuge; dwarfing all others. But whoops; there's a quietly tiny grayscale tilda at the side to omit ... ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
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Good riddance to Canada's most incompetent Finance Minister ever.
@GasPriceWizard
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Now Trudeau’s turn to resign. Otherwise YOU will be paying beyond your means for his GREEN flight of fancy. Be forewarned
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@TelegraphWorld This article confuses me. There are (or were?) Polar Bears on Kodiak Island now? Well south of their normal range? Living amongst the Kodiak Bears?
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@MrJacobEspi @TrungTPhan No doubt their Harvard education was paid for by parents, so why work?
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@CMOH_Alberta I agree with almost all your decisions, and you've been doing a tremendous job. This one makes no sense though. I don't even like golf, but I'd feel way safer walking or riding my own cart on a wide-open golf course, using my own clubs and balls than I do shopping for groceries.
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@StockCats I was joking around, but f*** he's right:
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Costco clerk: "wow, that's a lot" Me: "Might not be enough" Other customer: "Where do you live?" Me: "The place where everyone all over town brings their kids to trick or treet..."
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@globalnews Under fire for telling the truth? Makes no sense.
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@TWilsonOttawa Heaven forbid actual evidence be applied to public policy, or actual stakeholders be consulted! 😱
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Soooo... turns out Canada was in a division with (and thus their three losses were against...) two #WorldCup2022 semi-finalists AND the #2 rated country in the world.
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@deanstoltzchek @CHEK_News This guy did the safe thing and avoided direct confrontation with the illegal protesters, while still getting where he needs to go. It's appalling that the RCMP would now waste resources looking for the guy when they should be locking up the protesters.
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@MarkMcGrathCFP There are only two types of stocks you can buy: stocks with problems, and stocks that don't have any problems yet.
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The @RationalRemind podcast's biggest fans plus their star Mark 2 Market @jasonpereira @MarkMcGrathCFP
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@PremierScottMoe @TWilsonOttawa Oilers going to OT and still no power outage here. Your help is appreciated Mr. Premier.
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@jkenney Put up firewalls. Bring in a provincial police force. Protect Albertans from this autocratic rule coming from Ottawa.
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@Stockwell_Day Sorry man, there's no place for this anti-vax nonsense. Over 26K Cdns have died of Covid 2date. I personally have friends and family who suffered the illness, and know some who died. By posting this you could be directly influencing decisions that will lead to more deaths.
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"During Stephen Harper’s decade as prime minister, Canada’s real GDP per capita growth tracked closely with the United States. Not so, unfortunately for Canadians, under Justin Trudeau." via @nationalpost
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That's a pretty high profile block. Do I win a prize? 😂 Dividends are not an investment strategy.
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There are many investing novices posting content on X, YouTube, TikTok, etc, about dividend investing. Their belief is that dividends manifest out of thin air. See this thread for examples and education.
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@SteveSaretsky Shows you, in some areas of the country there is nothing that any politician can say or do (good or bad) to prevent certain electorates from voting LPC.
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@maxfawcett For a libertarian, he sure comes up with a lot of rules. 😕
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@maxfawcett Personally, I hope they (we) campaign on simply ensuring that those $100B are effectively and prudently spent. There's no place for fiscal austerity during a recession, as history demonstrates, but if we're borrowing a s***-ton, let's ensure every dollar is respected.
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@GasPriceWizard In today's political scene Martin, Chretien, Turner, would probably all be Conservatives.
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How will I ever know the top dividend stocks? 😩
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@AminDha604 @SteveSaretsky @scotiabank It's a gradual, very long term scaling back of the loan to value limit on STEP mortgages, from what I can tell. Won't, or at least shouldn't be a rapid unexpected curtailing of credit limit for most people.
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Whichever idiots in #BC keep ignoring advice to stay out of backcountry should be fined $100k.... each. #Peachland #bcwildfires
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Castanet
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Fire starts near road #Peachland
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If there isn't a better example of why owning the whole market beats stock picking, just look at today's top and bottom performers (in no way is this a recommendation to buy or sell either stock, I'm suggesting avoiding stock gambling)...
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After many takes, and a bunch more editing, I may soon have an intro video for my website. 🙂
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@flashpatricks @DrEliDavid He's just there browsing for ideas. He'll get it on Amazon.
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While the PM of UK visited actual Ukraine, our PM visited a Ukrainian church...in a museum.
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Justin Trudeau
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The church behind me is the St. Onuphrius Church. It’s a consecrated Ukrainian Catholic church that was built in Canada more than a hundred years ago, and it’s now located inside the @CanMusHistory – where I was for today’s #StandUpForUkraine event.
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@fundstrat @Twitter Better to just be a bull all the time. Works more often than not.
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@Stockwell_Day "26 of the infected people are crew members and one is a guest. All are vaccinated, and most have either mild or no symptoms." This story tells me it's a good idea to get vaxxed (to avoid severe outcomes) and that case numbers are meaningless.
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An important PSA for the #yegdt lunch crowd (all 20 of ya!): Scotia food court's legendary Chicken 4 Lunch remains open and needs your business (so that Amy keeps doing the daily specials). Thai chicken today, Korean BBQ tomorrow!
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@ArizonaCoyotes The arena's already been built. It seats over 18K and it's called the Videotron Centre.
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@JanisIrwin If the average rent of an Edmonton 2bdrm (currently $1605) increased 50% to $2400, it would still cost significantly less than an avg 1bdrm in Vancouver ($2866) or Toronto ($2594). We have it pretty good here, but yes: when we have the lowest rents of any major cities in the
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@JayeWalter @ABDanielleSmith @DavidStaplesYEG YES, nuclear! When will we finally have nuclear plants built in Alberta? We keep talking about it.
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@WBrettWilson How about continental alliance for energy security/independence? Continental alliance for manufacturing integration? Continental alliance for free labor movement? Why does none of this s*** matter to them????
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Wow, either @NHL refs need their eyesight checked, or the NHL really does have a conspiracy against the #Oilers . Which is it?
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Justin Trudeau's new Canada... #MayTheFourthBeWithYou
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Wow! Canadian real estate almost 100% overvalued. This won't end well for the big 5 banks.
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So are people who sell ad space on their blog or profit from referral links. The difference is we're ACCREDITED, QUALIFIED, and REGULATED. Careful who you get your "advice" from online.
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@DavidStaplesYEG My respect for Sohi and Paquette went up, as they opposed this, but read the room. My respect for some of the others, who went kicking and screaming the whole way, remains low.
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@Rogers26B @lamphieryeg There's some truth to this. A lot of companies and capital were holding out hope for a different result on Oct 21st, but lost all hope for this once great nation after Laurentians re-elected their leader.
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Hey @NHL , if you're considering Las Vegas for an NHL hub city, did you happen to notice that Nevada, with a smaller population than Alberta, had more than 10x as many COVID19 cases today? (381 vs 37)
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@breenm22 @Simon_Cullen That's the way I see this too... testing is becoming rampant, which is good. We're finding 'em, we're isolating 'em, and the general public is on their toes, avoiding spread.
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@grouchdiver @NHLSeattle_ Man. Hockey was so awesome back in the day.
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If your mom is still with you, don't forget to call her today (or visit and give her a hug, if able). Below is a screenshot of my call display from last year (I called, she didn't get to the phone in time, then called back). It was the usual annual routine of calling mom on
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@R_Boissonnault It's disappointing to read this statement, Randy. When I knew you as a fellow Rotary club member I thought more highly of you. Obviously, we don't agree politically, but I considered you a decent human being. Anything short of calling for resignation is condoning such behavior.
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@jkenney It's hilarious seeing CBC parrot Liberal talking points again as they interrupt and object as their guest is being interviewed.
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Can't believe it's been 10 years. Exactly 10 years ago (well, a few months before that) I looked around and assessed what I was doing at the bank. I liked what I was doing, I liked helping people make sense of their money through comprehensive financial planning, but I knew that
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