Automatic Income Tax Filing

 Reprinted from the Advocacy Newsletter of our Ontario Regional Council

AUTOMATIC INCOME TAX FILING. In order to receive the Canada Child Benefit, GST rebates and most other government benefits, people must file an income tax return. Due to uncertainty and cost, many of our neighbours in need fail to file in a timely manner. They miss out on valuable income to which they are entitled that could help alleviate their poverty. In the last Speech from the Throne the government promised to provide free automatic tax filing for simple returns. Many other jurisdictions have implemented this policy in an attempt to help people who are living in poverty. Vincentians can ensure that this reform does not fall through the cracks by contacting their Members of Parliament with this simple message: I urge you to support and work towards implementing automatic free tax filing as promised in the last Speech from the Throne. This measure will help many low income Canadians automatically receive the benefits to which they are entitled. Find contact info for your MP easily using your Postal Code: contact your MP

Conference Spiritual Reading 11 Jan 2021

 

Spiritual Reading for January 11, 2021 - selected by Deacon Steve

“And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. My dear, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.”

“Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours”, Kathleen Deignan CND, ed., Sorin Books, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2007, p. 162

Introduction to the Liturgy of the Eucharist

 Wonderful explanation by Archbishop Durocher.