I’m going to have to pay myself a salary soon, and I’ve been learning a lot about the different taxes that one has to pay, both on the employer and the employee side of the equation! Canada has always been known for having a relatively high level of taxation, but as I’ll soon show you, [...]
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How Much Do You Pay in Payroll and Income Taxes? Here’s an Overview of Canada’s Income and Payroll Taxes for 2012, by Province
35 Comments Kevin on Jun 18th 2012
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Comparative Advantage: I Hired Two Fellow Bloggers, and It Was a Great Decision!
There is a concept in economics known as comparative advantage. The idea is that we are better off by specializing in the things that we are good at, and trading with others for the things that they are good at. We’re all better off as a result. It doesn’t even matter if one person is better than [...]
17 Comments Kevin on Oct 27th 2011
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A List of Great WordPress Plugins to Make Your Site Better
I’ve been blogging for nearly two years now (can’t believe how time flies!), and while I would not consider myself a pro at blogging, I have discovered quite a few plugins that have made my life easier. Maybe they will help you out as well. Here they are: ©Feed This plugin lets me insert a [...]
24 Comments Kevin on Oct 21st 2011
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Invest Wisely in Protecting Your Most Precious Data: How to Back Up Your Stuff to the Cloud
Why should I backup to the cloud? More and more, our lives are moving into the digital world. Many of our photos, documents, and other important things exist only in a digital form. On one hand this is pretty amazing: It is much easier to share and preserve our information than ever before. We can easily [...]
36 Comments Kevin on Oct 17th 2011
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Bitcoin: The Digital Currency of the Future
Ever since the dawn of the Internet and of the information age, writers and visionaries have visualized the disruptive changes that such technologies would eventually have on our lives; they have imagined futures where we spend more of our lives online than offline, and where ubiquitous access to technology and connectivity would be a strong [...]
76 Comments Kevin on Feb 28th 2011
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Looking for a Solution to a Problem, but Can’t Find One? SolutionAuctions.com is Here to Help
What is SolutionAuctions.com? It’s a new website which introduces a new way to get answers to any question. Anyone can post solutions to problems and sell. Anyone with a question can browse these solutions, or start a new auction by asking a question. A reputation system separates the wheat from the chaff. It’s a new [...]
21 Comments Kevin on Oct 7th 2010
