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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦
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Retired. 🇨🇦. I have time on my hands, so I started a FB group called No Nonsense Small Business Taxation and Retirement Planning for Canadians. Takes the mystery out small business taxation.

Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1279028133630094/
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Nuff said
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Evening on the pond
evening just after sunset on the pond behind my house. Various reds and yellows are interspersed with a line of cloud just above the horizon. The foreground shows trees silhouetted against the sky and water of the pond. It was taken in the late summer of 2024. As fall progresses the pond becomes a hive of geese. I have come to call them the Royal Canadian Geese Air Force (RCGAF) as they are quite organized in their landings and takeoffs which resemble airplane squadrons. They always land into the wind and each squadron will taxi to the other end of the pond to take off into the wind.
March 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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A little plug for my niece Jill, whose artwork is hanging in Commander (Cdr) Teri Share's cabin aboard the HMCS Margaret Brooke which is now in Antarctica. Cdr Share is one of Jill's artwork collectors. Jill captures "the Essence of Women in Vibrant Seascapes" www.jillcooperartist.com
Jill Cooper Artist 📢 GUESS WHERE MY ART IS right now?? 🎨🌊💙 I got a message from one of my collectors (who also follows me here, so HEY!) last week, letting me know that she had my mini framed pieces... in her cabin... on her ship... that SHE IS THE CAPTAIN of... in the Canadian Navy... that is currently in... 💥 ANTARTICA!!! 💥 (On the HMCS Margaret Brooke!) Whhhaaaaa?? That's so frickin' amazing to me! ALL of it. My art being in Antarctica, the fact that my collector is one of the few women Captains in the Canadian Navy, AND that she is inspired by my art and took the time to let me know that. Thank you, my dear collector! (I told you I'd be bragging on it! 😀) I am just so FULL of happiness! 🥳
March 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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March 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Well, @gtconway.bsky.social, here you go!
February 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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9 of the top 10 richest in the world are in USA. Their collective net worth of $1.722T is 6.3% of the US GDP of $27.36T. A mere 11 countries have more GDP than their net worth!

And yet…they feel they need more tax breaks…
February 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Surprised, I am...
Chisholm Pothier, who was Jim Flaherty's chief of staff as Finance Minister under Harper, calls out Anaida Poilievre for saying that Mark Carney is taking credit for what Flaherty did during the 2008 financial crisis. Pothier defends Carney's insight and smart monetrary policy as being the deciding factors.
February 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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We kind of agree up here
I DONT KNOW WHO WROTE THIS BUT I FULLY AGREE WITH IT!!! "Have you ever stopped to consider how lucky we Americans are to have the neighbors we have? Look around the globe at who some folks have been stuck sharing a border with over the past half century: North Korea / South Korea Greece / Turkey Iran / Iraq Israel / Palestine India / Pakistan China / Russia We’ve got Canada! Canada. About as inoffensive a neighbor as you could ever hope for. In spite of all our boasts of “American exceptionalism” and chants of “America first,” they just smile, do their thing and go about their business. They are on average more educated, have a higher standard of living, free health care, and almost no gun problems. They treat immigrants respectfully and already took in over 35,000 Syrians in the last two years. They’re with us in NATO, they fought alongside us in World War I, World War II, Korea, the Gulf War, the Bosnian War, Afghanistan, the Kosovo War and came to our defense after 9/11. There was that one time when Canada took a pass on one of our wars: Vietnam. Turned out to be a good call. They’ve been steady consumers of American imports, reliable exporters of metals and petroleum products (they are the biggest importer of U.S. products from 37 states), and partnered with NASA in our space missions. During 9/11 many aircraft were diverted to Newfoundland, an island province off Canada's east coast where Americans were housed in people's homes for two weeks and treated like royalty. In return for their hospitality, this administration slapped a 20% tariff on the products of Newfoundland's only paper mill, thereby threatening it's survival. And what do Canadians expect of us in return? To be respected for who and what they are: Canadians. That’s what I call a good neighbor. But the King of Chaos couldn’t leave well enough alone. Based on his delusions of perpetual victimhood, out of the clear blue, he’s declared economic war on Canada. On CANADA! And he did it based on Canada b…
February 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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heartbroken, I am....
February 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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My response - and then a block
February 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I got a text message…I responded
February 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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It's true. We are a great country, not through slogans, but y what Canadians have done and continue to do every day
February 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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We really should no longer buy US foods especially poultry, beef, dairy, etc. Even vegetables and fruits. It's become a food safety issue as they are dismantling of the CDC and the tracking and notification of viruses like H1N, bird flu and others in their food supply.
February 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I cannot imagine the cons being this strategic in the tariffs response...
February 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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posted on Reddit...the gloves are off for a lot of Canadians...
February 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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For those who think Drumpf is a brilliant negotiator. From an American living in Canada posted in 2018 - the last time he did the thing to us
February 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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A letter to Elon by Chis Anderson of TedTalks - not likely to make a difference, but more people in a position like Chris need to speak up
January 7, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from our family to yours
Family photo of the Cooper-Chen Family in front of a Christmas Tree with Grandpa aged 92 seated in the centre of the photo. Back row from left to right son Nicholas, daughter-in-law Robyn, Spouse Luna, me (Larry), niece Stephanie, and sister-in-law Chun Yan. Front row seated, son Stanley with his golden retriever named Rocky (with back to the camera), grandpa, nephew Mathew, and brother-in-law Lei
December 26, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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For the other site
December 5, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Punched card reader from the early 1970's - I did my entire B.Sc. in computer science on punched cards and graduated in 1977 - I was 19
Punched card reader from the early 1970's - I did my entire B.Sc. in computer science on punched cards and graduated in 1977
November 24, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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decided to reactivate my account over there so I could protect my handle. So I check back in and it's getting way, way, way worse. These are supposed Canadians cheering on Trump using the military to round people up for mass deportation
screen shot of supposed Canadians cheering on Trump plan to use military for mass round-ups and deportations
November 19, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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If he shows up you all know what to do…
November 17, 2024 at 8:26 AM