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		<title>Attention Small Business Owners: Take Advantage of Canada&#8217;s Economic Action Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As Canada is climbing out of the recession, most incentives in the federal stimilus package passed last summer come to an end. For example, the home renovation tax credit has ended on January 31, 2010.
Thankfully, many incentives for small businesses remain in place for a while longer.
Besides the tax cuts and assistance on financing that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PSWLaw Announces New Line of Services Dedicated to First-Time Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you running a corporation for the first time? Are you a new business owner unsure about the legal requirements of running a business?
PSWLaw is pleased to announce a new line of services dedicated to those who are new on the scene.
We can to provide you with the following information:

How to incorporate
What is a &#8220;minute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Rights Groups Sue Edmonton over Ill Elephant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday The National Post reported this story on two animal rights group suing the City of Edmonton for allegedly breaching Alberta&#8217;s Animal Protection Act by mistreating Lucy the elephant.
The suit was brought by Zoocheck Canada and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Their claim was accompanied with affidavits from several experts.
The organizations claim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Groundhog Day 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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Groundhog Day is celebrated on February 2 in the U.S. and Canada. According to folklore, if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day and sees its shadow, it will supposedly retreat to its burrow, and winter will continue for six more weeks.
This year&#8217;s results are unanimous:
The Ontario Wiarton Willie confirmed that there will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Voluntary Dissolution of a Corporation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In Ontario, the voluntary dissolution of a corporation is governed by the Business Corporations Act* and is quite a demanding administrative process.
For a corporation that has never commenced business and has not issued any shares, the dissolution would be filed  by all its incorporators  along with the written consent of the Minister of Finance. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legalese Dictionary: Franchising</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What is a franchise?

While for most ordinary citizens the word &#8220;franchise&#8221; conjures up images of McDonalds or PizzaPizza, not many people can clearly define what a franchise is.
When used in the commercial sense, &#8220;franchise&#8221; refers to the sole right granted by the owner of a trademark or tradename to engage in business or to sell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Criminal Lawyers Associations Ends Boycott against Legal Aid Ontario</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Criminal Lawyers Association, which has been boycotting Legal Aid Ontario since June of 2009 to protest the hourly rate, has announced that it has reached an agreement with the province. Legal Aid will be increasing the hourly tariff for about 5% a year for the next few years.
The news release also says Legal Aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Canada Stopped Deporting People Back to Haiti?</title>
		<link>http://www.pswlaw.ca/2010/01/has-canada-stopped-deporting-people-back-to-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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It&#8217;s been 9 days since Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. The epicentre was just outside the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. The city crumbled and the damage was widespread.
Promptly after the earthquake, U.S. President Obama announced that his administration will allow undocumented Haitians to remain in the U.S. temporarily.
What about Canada? Have we stopped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PSWLaw®, Integrated Small Business Solutions® Now Officially Registered Trade-Marks</title>
		<link>http://www.pswlaw.ca/2010/01/pswlaw%c2%ae-integrated-small-business-solutions%c2%ae-now-officially-registered-trade-marks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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I&#8217;m pleased to announce that both my trademarks, &#8220;PSWLaw&#8221; and &#8220;Integrated Small Business Solutions,&#8221; have been officially allowed and registered. Hooray!!
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		<title>PSWLaw HST Bulletin: Small Businesses and the GST/HST</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pei-Shing Wang</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Commencing July 1, 2010, in Ontario, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will blend with the provincial sales tax and become the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario. The new tax is set at 13%.
At the moment, a GST registered business collects the GST from the customers and pays the GST to its suppliers. At [...]]]></description>
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