Retailers say GST holiday failed to boost sales 🇨🇦 #MarkCarneyCantBeTrusted 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://www.westernstandard.news/news/retailers-say-gst-holiday-failed-to-boost-sales/62123

Group Concorde, a leading global airline General Sales and Service Agent (GSSA), has announced a new partnership with Air Caraïbes and French bee, effective February 2025. Under this agreement, Group Concorde gains exclusive GSSA rights across 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, further strengthening its footprint in key international markets, according to an official release from Group Concorde. #GroupConcorde #GSSA #AirCaraïbes #Frenchbee #aircargo #aircraft #AsiaPacific #MiddleEast

The Germany-based Cargo General Sales & Service Agent (GSSA) Strike Aviation Group announced the appointment of Sascha Nauck as Sales Manager for Western Europe, based in their Frankfurt office. #StrikeAviation #WesternEurope #Airfreight #NEOAirCharter #Frankfurt #aircargo #aircraft

cargo.one, a digital air freight procurement and sales platform, has announced that CMA CGM AIR CARGO's global capacity is now available for instant digital booking. #cargo_one #CMACGMAIRCARGO #CMACGMGroup #digitalbooking #aircargo #aircraft

2024 was an Amazing Year! We could also call it "The Year of Expansion"! Selling our teas by the cup this year was a major hit! Sales of our teas went so well over the course of 2024, that we are doing our first ever Top Five Tea Report!!! We are now looking at our calendar and figuring out just how much more foraging will need to be done to prepare for the fairs we want to attend this year! As it is, some of our ingredients got dangerously low that we harvested last year, which may mean putting various limited-run teas on our table if the growing season starts out slow again. Do keep an eye on our web calendar. There are a number of fairs pencilled in offline that will begin appearing once they are registered for. We were asked multiple times about advanced foraging workshops, which will be headed up by Marilynn from her Biblical Natural Health Coaching website, if this interests you, drop her a line at bnhc@naturalhealthcoaching.ca and she'll send you the draft list that you can share your feedback and months you'd like to attend. Various homeschooling parents have also shown interest in our introductory foraging workshop as well. If those interest you too, send an email to Marilynn as well. We have a feeling that 2025 is going to be a busy year for Ashtree Wildcrafting! We wish you the best of health this year, and look forward to seeing you in person at a fair or event. Click through to read the full report and see a few pics: https://ashtreewildcrafting.ca/wp/blog/2025/01/04/2024-year-in-review/

Canadians should brace for multiple tax increases as they prepare for 2025. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation released its annual report outlining major federal tax increases coming in the new year. While many tax increases are upcoming, the federation highlighted increases to payroll taxes, the carbon tax, alcohol taxes, and the temporary sales tax holiday. The Liberals are raising the mandatory contributions to the Canada Pension Plan and Employment Insurance in 2025. The combined increase will cost Canadians up to $403 next year. https://tnc.news/2025/01/02/canadians-to-face-multiple-federal-tax-hikes-in-2025/

CREA’s benchmark price shows a typical home made an even sharper drop last month. The composite fell 0.8% (-$5,500 ) lower to $707,700 in October, following a 0.6% (-$4,600) drop in September. This marks the sixth consecutive monthly drop, with prices 2.7% (-$19,800) lower than last year. Home prices remain where they were roughly 3 years ago, even with backward-looking revisions to the index. https://betterdwelling.com/canadian-real-estate-prices-make-another-sharp-drop-despite-rising-sales/

Back in August, when discussing Buffett's ongoing liquidation of his Bank of America stake, And know Buffett is The bulk of the new cash came from sales: in the third quarter, Berkshire sold a net $34.6 billion worth of stock, following the record $75.5 billion in Q2 liquidations, the bulk of which we now know came from Buffett's sale of half his Apple shares. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/buffett-calls-top-berkshire-dumps-100-million-apple-shares-unprecedented-selling-spree

A good monsoon season is expected to boost crop yields this year, pumping more money into the rural economy. This will likely drive stronger demand for both gold and silver. Rural silver consumption accounts for around two-thirds of total Indian demand. Record gold prices also boosted silver demand in India, particularly silver jewelry sales. https://activistpost.com/2024/10/indian-silver-demand-drives-record-prices.html

Axe the sales tax on homes 🇨🇦 #NoMoreLiberalsAndNDP 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #SayingTheQuietPartOutLoud 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #resigntrudeau 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 #JustSayNoMore 🇨🇦 https://youtu.be/s_xINKWqYQg?si=J4ML_cAAX0eNw5IT via @YouTube