nfitz
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Of course it will. The Sun's endorsement will be about who will sell the most newspapers.
Things are so dire over there, they are likely worried if city politics goes back to boring, they are all unemployed.
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Things are so dire over there, they are likely worried if city politics goes back to boring, they are all unemployed.
Videodrome
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SAL and Warmington wouldn't have a job for sure.
pud99
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BTW: The subject of Doug donating his councillor's salary (an amount equal thereto) to charity was discussed at length something like a year up-thread from today.
In over-simplified terms: If you receive $1 of gross taxable income and make a $1 donation to charity, the $1 charitable deduction offsets the $1 of income, resulting in a net taxable income of $0 and thus no tax owing.
It is not actually that simple - e.g., the fact that tax rates are progressive and deduction rates are not means that the offset is not exact. In a very rough and ready calculation, assuming (which we can do quite safely) that Doug Ford has enough taxable income from other sources to put him at the highest marginal rate of combined federal and Ontario tax for each additional $1 of taxable income he receives on top of that, then if he donates to charity an amount equal to his councillor's salary (speaking loosely - 'donates his salary to charity") in the same year he would end up owing approximately $5,000 of income tax on the salary received.
In over-simplified terms: If you receive $1 of gross taxable income and make a $1 donation to charity, the $1 charitable deduction offsets the $1 of income, resulting in a net taxable income of $0 and thus no tax owing.
It is not actually that simple - e.g., the fact that tax rates are progressive and deduction rates are not means that the offset is not exact. In a very rough and ready calculation, assuming (which we can do quite safely) that Doug Ford has enough taxable income from other sources to put him at the highest marginal rate of combined federal and Ontario tax for each additional $1 of taxable income he receives on top of that, then if he donates to charity an amount equal to his councillor's salary (speaking loosely - 'donates his salary to charity") in the same year he would end up owing approximately $5,000 of income tax on the salary received.
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casita
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Like the Miss America runner-up gets the crown?
Got to wonder what the lungs on some of the retired TFD guys are like. Riding up on the back step, with a Haligan bar in one hand and a cigarette in the other. No breathing apparatus back then. Lungs must have been made of leather!
Regarding Rob dropping out of the race for health reasons. I don't see it happening, for one thing, he wouldn't get his 100 bucks refunded. Too late for that now.
But, as Dr Freud said, "Love and work, work and love. That's all there is.
Work is one of the most fundamental aspects in a person's life, providing the individual with a means of financial support and, as importantly, a contributory role in society. A person's employment is an essential component of his or her sense of identity, self-worth and emotional well-being."
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JGHali
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Physician here - going back to the nature of this tumour, there's very little that's good about the information released so far. A few points:
1) Ford supposedly had some sort of appendiceal "tumour" resected in 2009, along with what sounds like a partial cecal resection. I have no idea what exactly this was since we have nothing more than Rob's description. It doesn't sound like any kind of malignancy, but tumours of the appendix aren't common and when they do occur can be very aggressive.
2) If this new "fair-sized" tumour is colorectal in origin, it begs the question of why he wasn't scoped. That, at least, is my understanding, as the reports suggest only imaging - and an image-guided biopsy. Colonoscopy would be the first choice to get tissue but it's possible it was attempted and it wasn't successful. And if a colonic mass is big enough to be seen on CT, it's going to be at least locally-advanced. Since Ford is now admitted to a surgeon who does colorectal exclusively, it stands to reason that's where this thing is, but it also probably isn't a "normal" colorectal cancer.
3) While a biopsy is conventionally understood as determining whether a tumour is "benign" or "malignant", usually we can tell that from imaging alone. What a biopsy provides is information about the type of tumour, and the delay in getting path results come from various special stains, immunofluorescence, and assessment of molecular markers that come with a more comprehensive study.
4) Overall I'm still not sure what's going on, but it's unusual to present with pain in the absence of obstruction or perforation. If either of those had happened, he'd already have gone to the OR. But with his younger age, prior appendiceal something, and symptoms, I'd wonder about a peritoneal malignancy either primary or secondary. It could also be a neuroendocrine tumour, some of which can be very aggressive and fast growing. Either way, once the biopsy results are back (along with whatever kind of "lung biopsy" he had) his case will go to a multidisciplinary tumour board and they'll decide on a plan.
None of this is compatible with an election.
1) Ford supposedly had some sort of appendiceal "tumour" resected in 2009, along with what sounds like a partial cecal resection. I have no idea what exactly this was since we have nothing more than Rob's description. It doesn't sound like any kind of malignancy, but tumours of the appendix aren't common and when they do occur can be very aggressive.
2) If this new "fair-sized" tumour is colorectal in origin, it begs the question of why he wasn't scoped. That, at least, is my understanding, as the reports suggest only imaging - and an image-guided biopsy. Colonoscopy would be the first choice to get tissue but it's possible it was attempted and it wasn't successful. And if a colonic mass is big enough to be seen on CT, it's going to be at least locally-advanced. Since Ford is now admitted to a surgeon who does colorectal exclusively, it stands to reason that's where this thing is, but it also probably isn't a "normal" colorectal cancer.
3) While a biopsy is conventionally understood as determining whether a tumour is "benign" or "malignant", usually we can tell that from imaging alone. What a biopsy provides is information about the type of tumour, and the delay in getting path results come from various special stains, immunofluorescence, and assessment of molecular markers that come with a more comprehensive study.
4) Overall I'm still not sure what's going on, but it's unusual to present with pain in the absence of obstruction or perforation. If either of those had happened, he'd already have gone to the OR. But with his younger age, prior appendiceal something, and symptoms, I'd wonder about a peritoneal malignancy either primary or secondary. It could also be a neuroendocrine tumour, some of which can be very aggressive and fast growing. Either way, once the biopsy results are back (along with whatever kind of "lung biopsy" he had) his case will go to a multidisciplinary tumour board and they'll decide on a plan.
None of this is compatible with an election.
Anna
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No, charitable donations are a credit against tax otherwise payable. You get a 15% credit for the first $200, and a 29% credit for everything above that (for federal tax purposes - for Ontario it's 5.05% and 11.16% ). You only get a credit for charitable donations up to 75% of net income in a year but you can carry the excess forward for 5 years.
basic
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Just to be clear, when I asked if the ITO would be released, I was asking if the media was going to report it out to us.
Jimmi T
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I believe so--Friday.
Jimmi T
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I bet Warmington knows the specifics of Ford's health situation but promised not to report it until after tomorrow's briefing.
Videodrome
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That is if the family let the hospital give all of the details.
EagleEye
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So Doug said after he gets over the little bump tomorrow it's full steam ahead? That sounds like he's not worried. You'd think if it was bad and Rob was starting chemo that he would be at the hospital, not camping.
casita
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Not sure if this ha been posted?
http://instagram.com/p/tBIThxvwhV/#
http://instagram.com/p/tBIThxvwhV/#
Videodrome
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Remember when Rob entered Spa-hab? One day, he was in tears over it and the next day, that substance abuse was a "little problem."
Interesting.
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Oriana
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I'm taking his comments with a grain of salt. "Sounds like" is still speculation. The rest is creative writing, unfortunately about a sad subject.
EagleEye
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