Brian K. Hlady, CPA
@bkhpc.ca
Tax accountant; dad, husband; Ceteris paribus, I'll have a beer. My opinions are endorsed and wholly supported by my employer. (he/him)
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Brian K. Hlady, CPA
@bkhpc.ca
· Nov 7
And just to confirm. I post under my own name and I run an accounting business. I stand by and support everything I post on this account.
So we're moving from recovering the costs associated with traffic enforcement and violations to increasing infrastructure and healthcare costs associated with injury.
Fucking muppets.
Fucking muppets.
Doug Ford’s speed camera ban could mean cuts to crossing guards, traffic safety agents without more provincial funding, Olivia Chow warns
Doug Ford’s speed camera ban could mean cuts to crossing guards, traffic safety agents without more provincial funding, Olivia Chow warns
“Immediate funding” for 40 municipalities to replace their speed camera initiatives doesn’t cover the $245 million cost for Toronto alone, Olivia Chow said Thursday.
www.thestar.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
So we're moving from recovering the costs associated with traffic enforcement and violations to increasing infrastructure and healthcare costs associated with injury.
Fucking muppets.
Fucking muppets.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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This is also something that Dem governors also either don't understand, or pretend not to. "Come visit us! We're nice and we also hate tariffs and Trump!" Yes, and ICE operates in your states too, so...?
It is very weird when US media does not report on the safety concerns, which are top of the list for Canadians I know. Yeah we are also pissed off but we've been pissed off since January, the decline was not gonna keep declining based purely on "elbows up."
I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is also something that Dem governors also either don't understand, or pretend not to. "Come visit us! We're nice and we also hate tariffs and Trump!" Yes, and ICE operates in your states too, so...?
My trepidation about travelling to the States to attend a conference was rather prescient, and this is exactly why I chose not to go. Fortunately, I was able to make that choice.
I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
My trepidation about travelling to the States to attend a conference was rather prescient, and this is exactly why I chose not to go. Fortunately, I was able to make that choice.
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READ THIS!
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o...
$200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o...
$200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
Op-Ed: Ottawa's costly pursuit of the poor
The government cites inefficiency as a reason to end taxes on vacant homes and yachts — yet keeps pouring money into futile litigation over pandemic-era benefits
www.canadianaffairs.news
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
READ THIS!
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o...
$200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o...
$200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
Fixing broken bank feeds is the worst part of my job. I can't do it for the client.
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Fixing broken bank feeds is the worst part of my job. I can't do it for the client.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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I never worry about how I am perceived by my peers because I do not have peers. I have friends who support me, cowards who fear me, and fools who have not yet taken notice of me (but shall one day fear me)
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I never worry about how I am perceived by my peers because I do not have peers. I have friends who support me, cowards who fear me, and fools who have not yet taken notice of me (but shall one day fear me)
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Honour the veterans and punch a fascist!
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Honour the veterans and punch a fascist!
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Corporate Canada got the budget it wanted. Now they need to deliver.
Economic growth, on its own, is not enough. It must also reverse growing economic inequality.
Working people and young people need to see some of the upside, not just investors.
socialcapitalpartners.ca/reflections-...
Economic growth, on its own, is not enough. It must also reverse growing economic inequality.
Working people and young people need to see some of the upside, not just investors.
socialcapitalpartners.ca/reflections-...
Reflections on Budget 2025: Economic growth alone won’t save us
Budget 2025 includes hopeful initiatives that will deliver real benefits to working Canadians at this time. In this reflection, SCP CEO Matthew Mendelsohn explains that, strategically, we really like ...
socialcapitalpartners.ca
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Corporate Canada got the budget it wanted. Now they need to deliver.
Economic growth, on its own, is not enough. It must also reverse growing economic inequality.
Working people and young people need to see some of the upside, not just investors.
socialcapitalpartners.ca/reflections-...
Economic growth, on its own, is not enough. It must also reverse growing economic inequality.
Working people and young people need to see some of the upside, not just investors.
socialcapitalpartners.ca/reflections-...
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Brad Lavigne and Kate Harrison telling Nate Erskine-Smith that he needs to be a trained seal is some bullshit.
Backbenchers have an obligation to hold government to account as much as opposition MPs do. Learn how a Westminster system works, FFS. #PnPCBC
Backbenchers have an obligation to hold government to account as much as opposition MPs do. Learn how a Westminster system works, FFS. #PnPCBC
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Brad Lavigne and Kate Harrison telling Nate Erskine-Smith that he needs to be a trained seal is some bullshit.
Backbenchers have an obligation to hold government to account as much as opposition MPs do. Learn how a Westminster system works, FFS. #PnPCBC
Backbenchers have an obligation to hold government to account as much as opposition MPs do. Learn how a Westminster system works, FFS. #PnPCBC
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Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.
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MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
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I wish financial planners would stop warning ppl about the "OAS clawback"
The OAS is the residue of a pension, launched in 1926, to relieve starvation among the very poor
Now, it (and GIS) helps those people, but also ppl with modest savings/pensions
It's 'clawed back' from the very comfortable
The OAS is the residue of a pension, launched in 1926, to relieve starvation among the very poor
Now, it (and GIS) helps those people, but also ppl with modest savings/pensions
It's 'clawed back' from the very comfortable
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I wish financial planners would stop warning ppl about the "OAS clawback"
The OAS is the residue of a pension, launched in 1926, to relieve starvation among the very poor
Now, it (and GIS) helps those people, but also ppl with modest savings/pensions
It's 'clawed back' from the very comfortable
The OAS is the residue of a pension, launched in 1926, to relieve starvation among the very poor
Now, it (and GIS) helps those people, but also ppl with modest savings/pensions
It's 'clawed back' from the very comfortable
My reaction this morning.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My reaction this morning.
My reaction after last Tuesday.
a man with long hair and a beard is smiling for the camera
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is smiling for the camera
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My reaction after last Tuesday.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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The contemporary political right really is a fucking cancer.
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The contemporary political right really is a fucking cancer.
In good news the snowblower started up on the second pull.
In bad news I had to make sure the snowblower was functioning. In November.
In bad news I had to make sure the snowblower was functioning. In November.
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
In good news the snowblower started up on the second pull.
In bad news I had to make sure the snowblower was functioning. In November.
In bad news I had to make sure the snowblower was functioning. In November.
As an outsider, seeing Zohran win, with a majority, gives me hope.
The fact that 40% of the voters still chose the ghoul option causes a lot of doubts.
The fact that 40% of the voters still chose the ghoul option causes a lot of doubts.
“I have never had to resign in disgrace. I have never cut Medicaid. I have never stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from the MTA. I have never hounded the 13 women who credibly accused me of sexual harassment. I have never sued for their gynecological records.”
November 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
As an outsider, seeing Zohran win, with a majority, gives me hope.
The fact that 40% of the voters still chose the ghoul option causes a lot of doubts.
The fact that 40% of the voters still chose the ghoul option causes a lot of doubts.
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Ottawa city council never fails to disappoint and do absolutely the wrong thing every single fucking time. I cannot wait for the bitter tears when this spirals out of control into another boondoggle, and the women's hockey team packs up to leave because of the way they were treated in this fiasco.
Breaking:
Lansdowne 2.0 has been approved by council. Final voting: 15-10
Lansdowne 2.0 has been approved by council. Final voting: 15-10
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Ottawa city council never fails to disappoint and do absolutely the wrong thing every single fucking time. I cannot wait for the bitter tears when this spirals out of control into another boondoggle, and the women's hockey team packs up to leave because of the way they were treated in this fiasco.
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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Great analysis by @gillianpetit.bsky.social irpp.org/research-stu...
Automatic tax filing: Welcome news for lower-income Canadians, but there’s more to do - IRPP
Budget 2025 built on a previous announcement to transition to “automated federal benefits” to make it easier for Canadians to file tax returns and access financial benefits. Starting in the 2026 tax y...
irpp.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Great analysis by @gillianpetit.bsky.social irpp.org/research-stu...