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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦

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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For the first time in 25+ years I am a medium. Took a health scare, but the journey was worth it. 20 so far with another 15-20 to go. Simple habits: 10-min walk at wakeup and after meals, food in 5-8 hour windows, protein first when eating, no sodium added, no processed foods, no sugary things.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Drove by it on the bus (3 hours from DT to Eagleson!) on Jily 1st - was astounded by how deep the water was on tracks and the fact they were placed in valley/ravine with no drainage. Great engineering! (just like Tunney's)
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
so when you have to go low sodium who'd have though that uncooked frozen shrimp are sodium bombs due to the added sodium?
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Sodium Chloride That's Assault Pun
ALT: Sodium Chloride That's Assault Pun
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Free ePub of The Tax-ready Small Business in Canada for the first 10 people to DM me. In return, please post an honest review on Kobo, Apple Books, or Amazon when listed. Interested? DM me. built2thrive.ca/built-to-thr...
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The Tax-Ready Small Business in Canada | Built to Thrive
A practical guide for Canadian small-business owners to build better records, GST/HST awareness, tax reserves and easier year-end routines.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For Canadian small business owners who want fewer tax‑season surprises and clearer GST/HST awareness, The Tax‑Ready Small Business in Canada focuses on everyday records and routines, not loopholes or aggressive strategies. Now available on Apple Books
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‎The Tax-Ready Small Business in Canada
‎Business & Personal Finance · 2026
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Tax season doesn’t create a small business’s money problems—it reveals issues that have been building all year. The Tax‑Ready Small Business in Canada is a practical guide for Canadian owners who want better records, clearer GST/HST awareness, and fewer last‑minute scrambles with their accountant.
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The Tax-Ready Small Business in Canada ebook by Larry Cooper - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Tax-Ready Small Business in Canada Built to Thrive, #1" by Larry Cooper available from Rakuten Kobo. Good records do more than make tax season easier. They help you understand what happened ...
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It's not boomers versus young people. It's an emerging divide between: - Asset-secure versus asset-excluded - Homeowners vs long-term renters/would-be buyers - Stable pensions & wages vs insecure work & high debt - Upward mobility as normal vs unsure still attainable. Mostly age independent...
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'The battle brewing in Canada is generational, and they are country miles apart,' says pollster Nik Nanos as parties split youth vote - The Hill Times
As older Canadians rally behind Prime Minister Mark Carney’s economic ‘safe harbour,’ younger generations remain split, exposing what pollsters say may be the new defining electoral fault line.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Resettlement's do not go well for the people who get resettled - no matter their age. We've been there before
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The trauma caused by resettlement in Newfoundland and Labrador must be acknowledged
Resettled families did not receive adequate compensation for property left behind and were rarely provided with sufficient funds to build new lives.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Does racism have a face in wildfire response? A dozen First Nations leaders held a press conference to detail the lack of involvement of First Nations in managing the crisis, and called out Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s comms as propaganda attempting to spin the wildfire response as entirely positive
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Does racism have a face in wildfire response? - The Hill Times
A dozen First Nations leaders held a press conference to detail the lack of involvement of First Nations in managing the crisis, and they called out Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s communications as propa...
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
From our garden
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My youngest son, who technically has the ideal education (honours degrees in biz and comp. sci.) in an "AI for All' world finally got a job - 14 months after graduation. So tell me again how AI is going to make things better "for all". Of course I am happy for him, but I lament for the young.
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Gord Miller 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @gmillertsn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Happy Canada Day to my Canadian followers 🇨🇦 Our country is an ongoing work in progress, but it is still regarded around the world as a beacon of respect, fairness, justice and civility. There are some who consider those attributes to be signs of weakness. On the contrary: they define who we are.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
that's a funny way of saying they weren't interested and/or we can't offer them enough money
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My son is a doctor so I asked him where is my prescription?
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Are we "human doings" or "human beings"? Seems more of the former than the latter. When was the last time you slowed down to just "be"? I struggle with that part but am working in changing it (I hope). (phrase is from "The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything" by James Martin)
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It's income and stability. Huge surprise.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Today, AI is the least powerful it will ever be in our lifetime. " No protections for existing workers, hiring processes, or the environment yet being sold as "AI for all" - (corrected story link from earlier post) theconversation.com/canadas-ai-f...
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Canada’s ‘AI for All’ strategy has ambitious growth targets, but it falls short on workers and the environment
Delivering on Ottawa’s AI for All strategy will require governments to build wraparound supports for workers, businesses and communities.
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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
There sure seem to be a lot of people out there cheering for a hockey team with a rapist goalie to win the Stanley Cup to own leafs fans.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Monday Musings: Revenue is exciting.Profit is important.Cash flow is reality. For sole proprietors, setting aside money for taxes every time you get paid is one of the simplest habits that separates thriving businesses from struggling ones. #BuiltToThrive built2thrive.ca/tax-financia...
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Sole Proprietor - Built to Thrive©
Sole Proprietor Guides Use this path if your business is not incorporated and you report business income personally. These guides help sole proprietors build cleaner records, better expense habits, GS...
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Saturday thought: Every recurring problem is a process asking to be improved. Before working harder next week, ask: “What system would prevent this from happening again?” Small improvements compound into big results. #BuiltToThrive
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
But…that is exactly the opposite of what they are all doing
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Canadian employers are paying the price after AI proves unable to replace laid off staff stocks.apple.com/AYCbtyC9-SxG...
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Canadian employers are paying the price after AI proves unable to replace laid off staff — The Globe and Mail
Layoffs made to save money proved more costly for 75 per cent of organizations that let staff go, according to one study
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Carney has announced a new AI strategy to ramp up adoption of the tech-bro-touted technology in a way that he says “serves all Canadians.” But BIG questions are lingering about how this aggressive ramp up will play out in a world where data centres guzzle water and destroy the environment:
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In 90's during QC referendum had a separtist QC colleague at Environment Canada who still wanted Canadian passport and dollar after separation, still wanted equalization, AND to keep his job at EC! Separatists all over are a bizarre breed
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
“Transit is not just a social service. It is economic infrastructure. When it fails, the costs appear in lost hours, missed meetings, childcare penalties, rising household expenses, and daily stress” www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/28/o...
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Ottawa's transit failure wasn't an accident - The Hill Times
The chain of decisions did not begin with former mayor Jim Watson, though he bears significant responsibility for procurement and oversight failures. The first domino fell when Watson’s predecessor, L...
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
jobs for younger Canadians? In what? Building the data centres? Cause there no jobs now for new graduates from university in biz or comp sci. My son graduated with honours degrees in both last year and there are no jobs.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My 24 year old son graduated last year with an Honours in Business from the Ivey School and a B.Sc. with Honours, and with Distinction in Comp. Sci., and did an exchange at the Rotterdam School of Management...and he cannot get a job. AI is causing layoffs at scale...and we should trust it's promise
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My 24 year old son graduated last year with an Honours in Business from the Ivey School and a B.Sc. with Honours, and with Distinction in Comp. Sci., and did an exchange at the Rotterdam School of Management...and he cannot get a job. Yet the government thinks AI is the answer to a Q no one asked.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Starting a business before the structure is clear can get messy fast. Personal and business money mix. Roles stay informal. Records fall behind. Incorporation feels like the answer, but the real issue is knowing what setup fits the stage you are in. Start with the foundation, not the logo.
Promotional graphic for Built to Thrive, a Canadian small business guidance website. Large headline reads Built to Thrive and Start where your business needs attention now. The image highlights four domains: Formation & Structure, Tax & Financial Discipline, Operations & Systems, and Strategy & Transition. A Start Here button appears below, along with references to guides, explainers, and tools. On the right, a laptop displays the Built to Thrive website. The design uses red, navy, white, and gold accents with subtle Canadian imagery and the URL Built2Thrive.ca at the bottom.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Morning walk in Stittsville
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Same in Newfoundland
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Hmmmm….from my house to downtown by bus…or bike…and bike is 4 minutes faster!
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
But who will think if the poor cars that won’t be needed? Or the townhomes with allotments for two cars that have both sides of the street blocked with cars and garages used as storage so much so the front porch and driveways are full of green bins and recycling bins. Yeah sprawl is great
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Just wrote my MP on surveillance pricing … this is not good either
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Criticizing the prime minister is not unpatriotic nor is it "Pierre would have been better" (Sorry, liberal partisans)
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
agree...but it seems no one is interested....though many say "something needs to be done"...democracy and city council have not been friends for a very long time
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
if you are a parent and find yourself in a similar situation there a tonne more just like you. Whatever you do, don't blame them, shame them, or tell them to try harder. They are doing the best they can and what they need most is your support, love and an occasional hug. The hug especially helps. /e
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
for no fault of their own find themselves in what is becoming untenable situations, when they did everything right are discovering they simply were a few years too late. We support our boy every way we can, we love him immensely, but we can't fix it. And I don't know what the answer is. But...
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
He spends 10 hours a day every day learning new skills in computer science and AI. Self-motivation or discipline is not something he lacks. He is well-spoken, analytical, and in the 95th percentile cognitively. He's a good young man. And yet...no jobs for him. I lament for all his compatriots, who
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
and prior that did SHAD (STEAM + entrepreneurship program at the University of Calgary. He got himself into all of these programs on hos own - he decided, he pursued, he got in, he did the work. We supported when needed but it was all him. And yet, there is no job not because he's lazy. /3
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
He also did an exchange at the Rotterdam School of Management and his CS thesis was published by his advisor in a new book he wrote this year. And he still managed to work part time throughout university for a government department. And...prior to that he did the IB programme in high schoold and...
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If you don't think the job market is upside down for the young you're not paying attention. My youngest graduated last year with an honours degree in business from the Ivey School and and one in Computer Science with Distinction from UWO. All job interviews expect 3-5 years experience - minimum! /1
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 27/04/2026
Banning surveillance pricing should be a no-brainer for governments. Companies shouldn't be allowed to spy on people so they can charge them more than the person standing next to them. Ban snitch pricing. Do it now. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/i-cant-bel...
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I Can't Believe I Have To Say This: Banning Snitch Pricing Is A No-Brainer
We shouldn't let companies spy on us and then use that information to rip us off. Why do I even have to write this? Seriously? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Agree! here is a letter I just sent to my MP - everyone should do the same. We live in a participatory democracy....so participate!
Dear Mr. Fanjoy,

As you know, affordability remains one of the most pressing challenges facing Canadians—particularly with respect to essential goods and services. In that context, the growing use of surveillance-based pricing warrants urgent legislative attention.

Surveillance pricing—where firms collect, analyze, and act on detailed personal data to tailor prices to individual consumers—raises serious concerns under both competition and privacy frameworks. It enables firms to leverage information asymmetries in ways that undermine fair market dynamics and distort price discovery. Consumers are no longer participating in an open market; they are being segmented and priced according to opaque criteria over which they have no visibility or control.

This issue is being rapidly intensified by the use of artificial intelligence. Firms can now deploy AI systems to process behavioral, transactional, and contextual data in real time, allowing them to infer willingness to pay and dynamically adjust prices at the individual level. These systems often rely on insights from behavioral economics and psychology, enabling firms to exploit cognitive biases and decision-making patterns with increasing precision. The result is a form of personalized pricing that is not only non-transparent, but also potentially manipulative.

From a policy standpoint, this raises clear questions under the Competition Act, particularly with respect to deceptive marketing practices, abuse of dominance, and conduct that substantially lessens competition. It also intersects with federal privacy legislation, including PIPEDA, where meaningful consent and reasonable use of personal information are foundational principles. The use of personal data to extract higher prices—without clear disclosure or informed consent—appears fundamentally at odds with those principles as well what ought to be the expected morals that are upheld in a well-functioning democracy..

As David Moscrop has noted, affordability …
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
O’Brien has been a special kind of stupid for decades now so he is well practiced at it. And of course follows in the storied tradition of men who became wealthy who think it affords them special insights and capabilities not present in mere mortals like the rest of us.
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I agree with this - if you want to be in public life the public have a right to expect that decisions will not be driven by personal financial interests
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Even our geese use crosswalk’s
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Yikes that also puts a dent in the critical minerals plans many countries have
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Facts are awful things
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Larry Cooper 🇨🇦 @cooperlk99.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"Air Ford One"
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