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Nearly A Million Canadian Bank Records Sent To IRS | CBC News

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 mdbincbi

The number of banking records the Canadian government is sharing with U.S. tax authorities under a controversial information-sharing deal has increased sharply, CBC News has learned. The Canada Revenue Agency sent 900,000 financial records belonging to Canadian residents to the Internal Revenue Service in September — nearly a third more than it sent the previous year. The records were for the 2018 tax year. It also has updated the number of records shared for the 2017 tax year to 700,000 from the 600,000 originally reported. Read full story here: Nearly A…

Bargain Prices For Oil And Gas Companies As They Hit The Discount Bin | CBC News

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 mdbincbi

It was a rough week for the Canadian oilpatch, to say the least, with the Keystone pipeline shutting down after a leak, Encana deciding to become American, and a new drilling forecast for 2020 that is woeful at best. To cap things off, Pengrowth Energy announced its pending sale. The Calgary-based company was a homegrown success story and was once worth billions of dollars. Its share price was more than $13 in 2011. Read full story here: Bargain Prices For Oil And Gas Companies As They Hit The Discount Bin…

Think Twice Before You Hand Your Phone To Police To Show Auto Insurance, Experts Say | CBC News

September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 mdbincbi

Ontario drivers should think twice about handing over their unlocked phone to a police officer to show electronic proof of insurance, privacy experts say. The province announced last week that Ontarians can now carry auto insurance information on their smartphones instead of relying on paper copies. Finance Minister Rod Phillips heralded the convenience that move will bring — but privacy watchdogs aren’t exactly doing back flips about it. Read full story here: Think Twice Before You Hand Your Phone To Police To Show Auto Insurance, Experts Say | CBC News

Petro-Canada Is Bringing Back Gas Nozzle Locking Clips | CTV News

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 mdbincbi

Gas nozzle locking clips are returning to Petro-Canada gas stations across the country after the company says they were removed nearly 20 years ago. (PumpTalk) Part of the reason for this is to prevent people from jamming coffee cups in the holders and spilling gasoline. According to a post on Petro Canada’s blog, the company is bringing the locking clips back to its gas stations across Canada, except in Quebec where they’re illegal. Read full story here: Petro-Canada Is Bringing Back Gas Nozzle Locking Clips | CTV News

Verizon Demands $880 From Rural Library For Just 0.44GB Of Roaming Data | Ars Technica

August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 mdbincbi

A small library that lends out mobile hotspots is facing a tough budget decision because one of its borrowers accidentally ran up $880 in roaming fees, and Verizon refuses to waive or reduce the charges. The library has an “unlimited” data plan for the hotspots, but Verizon says it has to pay the $880 to cover less than half a gigabyte of data usage that happened across the border with Canada. Read full story here: Verizon Demands $880 From Rural Library For Just 0.44GB Of Roaming Data | Ars Technica

Canada’s New Nationwide EV Tax Credit Bumped Sales By 30%, Report Says | Roadshow

August 6, 2019August 6, 2019 mdbincbi

The Canadian government is hoping to spark the EV revolution in the Great White North with a new EV tax credit. Electric cars are getting more popular in America’s neighbor-to-the-north, thanks to a new country-wide EV tax credit. Here at Roadshow, we talk a lot about EV sales in the US and how various state and federal tax incentives have affected them. Well, guess what, champ — Canada has EV tax incentives too, and we’ll be damned if theirs aren’t working like a dream. Read full story here: Canada’s New Nationwide…

What’s In Your File? Federal Political Parties Don’t Have To Tell You | CBC News

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 mdbincbi

Federal political parties are collecting and compiling reams of personal information about Canadians, but unlike businesses and governments, there is no oversight, no requirement they seek consent and no limits on what they can do with it. Federal parties are exempt from privacy laws in Canada, something privacy advocates, as well as federal, provincial and territorial privacy commissioners, have unsuccessfully urged the government to change. Read full story here: What’s In Your File? Federal Political Parties Don’t Have To Tell You | CBC News

Border Officials To Start Sharing Data About U.S., Canadian Travellers | CBC News

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 mdbincbi

Border agents will be able to share information about U.S. and Canadian citizens more freely as the third phase of a 2011 border agreement meant to make it easier for trade and travel across the Canada-U.S. border comes into effect. It was announced on Thursday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Canada Border Services Agency will exchange biographic data, travel documents, and other information related to border crossings of U.S. and Canadian citizens. Read full story here: Border Officials To Start Sharing Data About U.S., Canadian Travellers | CBC News

Citizenship Question Causing An Uproar In U.S. Has Been Part Of Canada’s Census Since 1901 | CBC News

July 7, 2019July 7, 2019 mdbincbi

A politically divisive debate continues to rage over U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to add a citizenship question to the U.S. census. That same question has been part of Canada’s census form for over a century without a ripple. Trump has been waging a fierce fight to add the controversial query to the 2020 census, and said Friday he’s now considering an executive order to get it done after a Supreme Court ruling blocked his efforts. Read full story here: Citizenship Question Causing An Uproar In U.S. Has Been Part…