Opinion

Plans submitted to the Ministry of Forests show an aerial view of the Christian Valley, just outside of Grand Forks. Photo: Government of BC website.

At one-year mark of pandemic, the B.C. tourism sector remains hopeful

The BC Regional Tourism Secretariat and five regional associations …

  • Feb 25, 2021
Plans submitted to the Ministry of Forests show an aerial view of the Christian Valley, just outside of Grand Forks. Photo: Government of BC website.
For those who buy or build a home, live in it, sell shortly afterward, and repeat this process regularly, CRA may determine that their “owned” home is actually not capital property but rather “inventory” for resale and as such the capital gains exemption is not allowed.

Tax Tips & Pits: Principal Residence Exemption

Likely the biggest investment most Canadians have is their home.

  • Feb 18, 2021
For those who buy or build a home, live in it, sell shortly afterward, and repeat this process regularly, CRA may determine that their “owned” home is actually not capital property but rather “inventory” for resale and as such the capital gains exemption is not allowed.
A new COVID-19 variant has been detected in Canada in an Ontario traveller who recently returned from Brazil. (Image courtesy of CDC)

Opinion: Science or sorcery

Genetic sequencing allows us to read DNA blueprints.

  • Feb 15, 2021
A new COVID-19 variant has been detected in Canada in an Ontario traveller who recently returned from Brazil. (Image courtesy of CDC)
In recognition of the need for employees to work from home in 2020, Canada Revenue Agency is offering the home office expense claim for 2020 tax reporting.

Tax Tips & Pits: Home office expense, COVID-style

There are three options to make the claim.

  • Feb 12, 2021
In recognition of the need for employees to work from home in 2020, Canada Revenue Agency is offering the home office expense claim for 2020 tax reporting.
Interest that qualifies as a tax deductable expense is classified as a carrying cost by CRA and is claimed on schedule T1-INV on your tax return.

Tax Tips & Pits: Investment interest as a personal tax expense

RRSP investment deadline approaching given the looming tax season

  • Feb 4, 2021
Interest that qualifies as a tax deductable expense is classified as a carrying cost by CRA and is claimed on schedule T1-INV on your tax return.
Image: InteriorHealth.ca

Message from Interior Health’s Susan Brown

“The COVID-19 pandemic hit us hard early in the year … “

Image: InteriorHealth.ca
David Suzuki

Rediscovering our place in nature

Consumerism has taken the place of citizenship, writes David Suzuki

  • Jan 12, 2021
David Suzuki
For Your Consideration

A banner year for the English lexicon

Thom hopes 2021 will not yield such a bevy of new terms and phrases

For Your Consideration
Montrose product Connor Jones mixes it up with players at Trail’s Champions Hockey School. Connor will join brother Kellen to play for Vasterviks IsHockey Klubb in the Swedish league in the new year. Photo: Jim Bailey.

Jones twins reunite in Swedish hockey league

Montrose products Connor and Kellen Jones will skate for Vaterviks IK of the Swedish league

Montrose product Connor Jones mixes it up with players at Trail’s Champions Hockey School. Connor will join brother Kellen to play for Vasterviks IsHockey Klubb in the Swedish league in the new year. Photo: Jim Bailey.
Photo: Mish Vizesi on Unsplash

Keeping Christmas beyond the festive season

The challenge of the season, its work, is to carry forward, uninterrupted, its goodwill

  • Dec 31, 2020
Photo: Mish Vizesi on Unsplash
The language of eyes — highly evolved mode of communication that will lift us as a society to a kinder, calmer, more empathetic level. (Photo courtesy Google)

The eyes have it: An evolving communication skill

Now that we are all masked, we will be communicating much more through the language of eyes

The language of eyes — highly evolved mode of communication that will lift us as a society to a kinder, calmer, more empathetic level. (Photo courtesy Google)
Photo: Nature Conservancy of Canada

Strides made in nature conservation in 2020

Despite the pandemic, and in some cases because of it, nature made headlines around the world

  • Dec 27, 2020
Photo: Nature Conservancy of Canada
Protestors with an “End The Lockdowns” sign at Science World in Vancouver on May 3. Photo: Desire Amouzou

OPINION: On individual rights versus community health

Using freedom as an excuse to gather in this pandemic illustrates a staggering degree of selfishness

Protestors with an “End The Lockdowns” sign at Science World in Vancouver on May 3. Photo: Desire Amouzou
If your opposed wearing a mask, just whose rights are you trampling on? Photo: Pixabay

Guest Column: On rights, freedoms, and wearing masks

The Charter guarantees our rights and freedoms ‘only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law’

  • Dec 11, 2020
If your opposed wearing a mask, just whose rights are you trampling on? Photo: Pixabay
Masks are mandatory indoors in all B.C. businesses. Photo: Black Press file

Think about the common good: wear a mask

Opinion by Trail Times columnist Louise McEwan

  • Dec 4, 2020
Masks are mandatory indoors in all B.C. businesses. Photo: Black Press file
Chilliwack Law Courts.

Prison sentence for a B.C. home invasion shows how slow justice can be

BC Supreme Court Justice points to dramatic increase in population no similar increase in courts

  • Nov 27, 2020
Chilliwack Law Courts.
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What can be done to maintain smaller regional airports?

Richard Cannings is MP for the South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding.

  • Nov 24, 2020
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Reforming B.C. Auto Insurance to Benefit Consumers

Chant: The Corporation lost $1.3 billion in 2018 and a further $1.2 billion in the following year.

  • Nov 4, 2020
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Cooperation needed so minority Parliament can function smoothly

“We will continue to work with the other parties to get answers … ”

  • Oct 27, 2020
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Photo: Fraser Institute

Does Canada Need a Wealth Tax?

“Wealth is difficult to define, measure, and tax.”

  • Oct 23, 2020
Photo: Fraser Institute