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Business In Light Wellness Systems 4-5
BNI Member of the Month Joey Merriman MNP, LLP 8 - 10
Opinion New Year, New Taxes, New Responsibilities 16 - 17
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You owe it to yourself! Stay as healthy as you can so you can live a full and active life! What Is Light Therapy? Infrared Light Therapy, or photo-biomodulation, is a unique therapy that harnesses the healing powers of infrared light. It emits special wavelengths of light energy that dramatically increase circulation to injury sites and areas of chronic pain. The result is a rapid relief of discomfort, improvement in sensation and regeneration of damaged tissue. Effective for any condition characterized by pain and inflammation.
How Does Infrared Light Therapy Work? Simple and painless. Flexible pads, containing multiple infrared and visible red diodes, are placed directly on the skin over the area of pain or injury. Light energy from the diodes penetrates beneath the skin and is absorbed by proteins within 4 Copy Works CONNECTION Issue 02/17
cells that lay beneath the skin. Those cells release nitric oxide, the body’s natural vasodilator. After just 20 minutes of treatment, blood flow is increased to nerves and other tissues.
Chronic Pain Relief NIR light therapy has been used by the U.S. military to speed recovery from soft-tissue injuries in elite soldiers in the Navy Seals, Army Rangers and Special Forces. Hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities use it to accelerate the healing of pressure ulcers (bed sores) and decrease the number of falls in elderly patients. This therapy is also used to ease the pain of neuropathy, restore sensation to patients with nerve impairment, speed up the healing of diabetic ulcers and other wounds and relieve many kinds of chronic pain.
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DISCOVER THE REVITALIZING POWER OF LIGHT! Light is absorbed by human cells and this is key to light therapy. Light Therapy is backed by Nobel winning science and over 4,400 articles on Pub Med. Try it, you will like it.
Light Therapy is comfortable and relaxing. It is gentle, painless, effective, safe, non-invasive, nonabrasive and restorative. There is no “down time” afterwards.
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JOEY MERRIMAN That glorious time of the year is almost upon us, and looking at all the snow outside, I’m sadly not referring to Springtime. It’s time to get ready to file your tax returns. Whether you prepare your tax returns yourself or take them to an accountant here are a few tips to make your “Tax Season” hiccup free: • Make sure you have all of your information. Certain tax slips don’t arrive until late in March (T3 slips and some RRSP slips for example). Missing income can result in painful tax penalties. • Little tax credits can add up: Claim your official charitable receipts,
collect all your medical related expenses, and claim eligible children’s fitness and arts fees (this credit will be eliminated in 2017). • Preparing in advance can help you determine if you can and should be contributing more to your RRSPs before the March 1st deadline.
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NEW FOR 2016 TAX RETURNS: • For 2016/2017 there were a few changes that took effect, including changes to the Federal and Alberta tax credits. The combined top marginal tax bracket in Alberta is now 48% for income above $300,000. This is considerably higher than we are used to in our province so look to your accountant for advice on opportunities for income splitting and tax deferral to help lessen this burden. www.copyworksconnection.com
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• Did you sell your home in 2016? If so, while any capital gains on your principal residence are tax free for most individuals, you are now required to disclose the details of the sale in your tax return. • If you received the Universal Child Care Benefit up to June 2016, this needs to be reported on your tax return. The subsequent program, the Canada Child Benefit, is a nontaxable benefit.
One of the benefits of taking your return to a professional is the advice you can receive in addition to making the filing as low stress as possible. Unfortunately, ignorance of tax rules isn’t an acceptable defense in the eyes of the Canada Revenue Agency, so when in doubt, as your accountant. I enjoy visiting with my clients and talking about their personal and business situations as this helps to identify areas of tax savings that otherwise could slip through the cracks. A few minutes of chit-chat often brings up moving expenses, new home buyers’ tax credit, qualifying medical costs or even the disability tax credit that can potentially save thousands of dollars. Joey Merriman, CPA, CA of MNP LLP earned his professional designation in 2005 and with his wife and two children has called Medicine Hat home since 2008. He is a member of the Medicine Hat Kinsmen Club for the past 4 years, and a member of the local referral networking chapter “BNI Advantage.” He also enjoys running, fishing, training his dog and building elaborate Lego creations with his kids. For consultations, please call 403-527-4441. Copy Works CONNECTION Issue 02/17 9
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YeaR, Taxes, Responsibilities Written by Drew Barnes, Shadow Minister of Energy
It’s February now and the holiday season bills are coming due. Many Albertans across this province are facing extremely difficult economic realities.
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Opinion A troubling number of families spent the holidays struggling to make the most of their E.I. cheques. New numbers released by Statistics Canada earlier this week showed that 100,000 people in Alberta were receiving employment insurance benefits as recently as November. Prices are higher at the pump, prices will be higher on our natural gas bills, and prices are higher at the grocery store with the addition of an economy crushing carbon tax that kicked in January 1. The oil and gas sector - which is unequivocally the lifeblood of southeastern Alberta’s economy - will be impacted by this carbon tax through newly raised production costs. The cost of this carbon tax will be paid with fewer full-time jobs being created. It will be paid in the form of lost opportunities with unnerved investors. And it will be paid by passing the cost along to consumers where possible, further harming household budgets. With the low price per-barrel, Albertans were already guaranteed that our province would be fighting an uphill battle in 2017. What our oil and gas industry didn’t need was a 2016 filled with investor uncertainty, royalty reviews, and bill after bill being rammed through the Legislature
mapping out the ever-worrisome mechanics of a new 6-billion-dollar carbon tax grab. During these difficult times, it has become apparent that Alberta’s oil and gas industry has suffered from a lack of advocacy and an ongoing misrepresentation of facts. Our oil and gas industry will never need a punishing tax to find a reason to pursue and implement the world class techniques that they have long used to reclaim sites, to reduce their water and power usage, and to reduce surface disruptions during active drilling. This tax will not help with the industry’s work to build communities, to provide employment, to provide academic scholarships, or to create any of the other boundless opportunities the oil and gas industry has brought to Albertans. That is why I am pleased to announce that I was recently given a new portfolio - Shadow Minister of Energy for the Wildrose Official Opposition. I am looking forward to holding the government to account by defending the best interest of Albertans and standing up for our oil and gas industry.
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Top 10 1. I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston
2. My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
3. I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing – Aerosmith
4. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You – Michael Jackson
5. God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
6. Manhattan Skyline – A-Ha
7. Far Away – Nickleback
8. Carry My love – Sarah Geronimo
9. Heaven – Bryan Adams
10. Layla – Derek & The Dominos
Facts About Love
1. Some individuals who claim never to have felt romantic love suffer from hypopituitarism, a rare disease that doesn’t allow a person to feel the rapture of love
2. Engagement rings are often worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because the ancient Greeks maintained that finger contains the vena amoris, or the “vein of love,” that runs straight to the heart. 3. Roses are a traditional symbol of love and, depending on their color, can suggest different nuances of love. For example, red roses indicate passion and true love. Light pink suggests desire, passion, and energy; dark pink suggests gratitude. Yellow roses can mean friendship or jealousy. A lavender or thornless rose can mean love at first sight. White roses mean virtue or devotion. 4. Since ancient Greece, the apple has been a symbol of love. The Celts believed that the apple represented love because it lasted so long after being picked.[ 5. Mystery or “the chase” is often a critical element in romantic love. Sometimes called the “Romeo and Juliet effect,” a situation with challenges or obstructions is likely to intensify one’s passion for a loved one 6. The maple leaf is a symbol of love in China and Japan—and in North America, it was often engraved on beds of early settlers to promote peaceful sleep and pleasure Copy Works CONNECTION Issue 02/17 21
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