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Couldn't figure that out as well...especially when you were told to go sit on a fat man with a long beard at Christmas time! I used the "Be polite if someone speaks to you - but don't go with them or eat anything they give you without my 'in person' permission"

To answer the OPs original question: Can you move to a commonwealth country and live with no restrictions as long as you got a passport? Being part of the Commonwealth does not automatically mean you can just show up....there are about 50 different visas for travel to Australia, for example...

Saw an 'after the break' item on Toronto news (5:30 CBC) about a webcam girl that was caught in a Toronto library exposing herself...but didn't get to see the actual story...does anyone know if this was a Myfreecams girl and who that was (her handle)? as she looked hot

Get a secured credit card (you deposit, say $1,000 into the account and they give you access to $1,000 on a credit card...assists in building up the score, which debit cards don't).

I could see Macy's making a go of it here, compared to Sears and The Bay - Last time I was at Sears you had to go 1/2 way across the floor to a single register for the whole floor to pay...looked for someone to assist (in finding out the prices - three signs on the display!) for 10 minutes -...

CRA expects that you are attempting to make money if you rent a property...if the whole property is rented costs sometimes offset the expenses (mortgage interest for example)...if just a room, then that may be a different story.

Spain would be the dream location for me

A friend of mine has rental properties in Hawaii....his US tax return took a whole ream of paper to print out !

In the Things worth sending money on, renting versus owning a property comes up. People talk about rental properties being pretty average (which I am sure 99.9% are), but has anyone seen the Income Property show on HGTV? Those are high end rentals, although I am sure most are not furnished...

We are going down the 'simple is best path' currently - we are clearing t lots of things we have used in a long time (coffee table books, for example that are in a box in a spare room), clothing, furniture etc. We are replacing some items with fewer but better quality which will last longer...

From Wikipedia.. . He was already CEO well before getting married....the $18 billion is based on paper value not hard assets. A $1 billion settlement is more than reasonable I think.

I thought the church was the Duomo of Florence (Italy) at first glance and based on the flag

I admire people that look at a sitution in a different light and think out of the box...pretty imprssive business idea tht is obviously paying off! As for her looks, that really wasn't why she is being focused on.

I've been trying to sell my parking ticket on local kijiji site and no one is biting :)

I lived outside of North America for many years before the internet etc and in general most people thought any band from North America was from the U.S. - the only person I remember being distinctly spoken about as a Canadian was Bryan Adams and the most obvious band was Rush. PS Famous doesn't...

Skyrider wrote: Ed is no hero. Pussy Riot are the heros. They had the courage to stand up to the autocrat Putin and paid the price. Ah, two completely different issues (unless you are trying to relate the Russian location)....Pussy Riot is protesting Putin, various rights they don'e have and...

If you don't know about the withdrawal consequences I would get a different financial advisor, even if you bought directly from the bank as this should have been explained to you and you possibly even signed a one-pager describing the fees. I have seen some instances where a person working at...

How did you get that number - based on the Overtime rate?

I buy items I use when on sale - cheese, toilet paper etc...there are some really good sale prices that come around every few weeks or so. Fruit and veggies are the worst for quality/freshness and price, so tend to pay more for those at a specialist not Food Basics etc. Metro and Sobeys in my...

When I got divorced we set up the basement for me, where I stayed for about 2 years !! I then realised she would keep the whole show continuing so managed to get her to leave - both my kids were with me and she would come by to take them to and from school - I did everything else both before she...