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Lessons Learnt from Children: Making A New Friend

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I had previously blogged on the state of loneliness and the efforts being made in the UK with the creation of a Minister of Loneliness. We know that this is also a huge problem in own backyard and one that we continue to need to be aware of. My colleague recently shared a new campaign originating in the UK called the “End Loneliness” with a conference in October 2018 touted….

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Profit Pastor Has His “Bill Clinton” Moment

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On August 17, 2018, Justice Fred Myers released his reasons for dismissing a pastor’s request to extend a July 2018 publication ban and order sealing the court file in respect of a paternity lawsuit brought by the pastor against a former congregant and lover who claimed he had fathered her child. Martin Kofi Danso, a Toronto pastor and self-styled “prophet”, is the founder of Miracle Arena for All Nations, a….

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Update: Ford Government Rolls Back Changes to ODSP General Regulation

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In my last blog I described some important changes to the Ontario Disability Support Program (“ODSP”). Specifically, I looked at certain provisions of Ontario Regulation 278/18 (“Amending Regulation”), which amended Ontario Regulation 222/98, the General ODSP Regulation (“ODSP Regulation”), to: eliminate the $10,000 limit on voluntary payments to ODSP recipients in any 12-month period, which include payments from a trust, payments from a life insurance policy, and gifts; and designate….

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PENSION PLAN LUMP SUM PAYOUTS

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This fact scenario is based on a situation presented to me recently and I appreciated the opportunity to being “re-educated” on the tax treatment of pension plan lump sum payments. A taxpayer’s spouse retires as a teacher and elects to start receiving her guaranteed pension. A couple of year later, the spouse passes away from cancer and the taxpayer being the beneficiary of his spouse’s pension plan elects to receive….

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Canada Revenue Agency, Estate Administration, In the News, Tax Issues, Uncategorized, Wills

Artist Foundations

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[caption id="attachment_6702" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Tom Thomson’s The Pointers, 1916-17 (Hart House, University of Toronto) – See Thomson’s catalogue raisonne at http://tomthomsoncatalogue.org/[/caption] In the U.S. there is a generation of contemporary artists who have never been richer and they are endowing – with art and money – some significant foundations. Cy Twombly Foundation, for example, reportedly has assets of over $1.5 billion. There is even a support initiative called the Artist-Endowed Foundation….

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Estate Donations, Estate Planning, Philanthropy/Charitable Giving, Uncategorized

My Summer Vacation

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One of my favorite routines on my annual summer vacation is to read the local news. Regular readers of this Blog may not be surprised that the story which caught my eye this summer was about an Estate.   Richard M. Grant, a life-long farmer, known as the “The Corn King” and “The Bean Baron of Maine”, passed away in February 2017. According to the Portland Press Herald (“the Herald”), Grant’s….

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