Réduire ses taxes scolaires… sans tricher Même quand je reviens de vacances et que ma boîte de courriels contient plus de 2000 messages, je ne me lasse jamais de lire les messages des lecteurs de , lapresse.ca et maintenant de . Vous êtes nombreux à me poser des questions de finances personnelles, à dénoncer les pratiques douteuses des commerçants ou à me raconter vos trucs pour mieux gérer votre argent. Merci ! J’adore. « On m’a déjà dit que, n’ayant pas d’enfant, j’ai le privilège de changer pour une commission scolaire qui a un taux de taxation moindre. En effet, il est possible de réduire ses taxes scolaires en payant son compte dans une autre commission. Ils peuvent changer de commission scolaire uniquement lorsqu’ils n’ont pas d’enfant qui fréquente une école dans cette commission. Mais il faut être conscient que le taux de taxation des commissions scolaires anglophones est souvent plus élevé que celui des commissions francophones. Dans certains cas, la différence peut être considérable. C’est complètement faux !
Moist Pumpkin Bran Muffins I’m traveling for Thanksgiving but I just had to make SOMETHING before I left. I’ve been experimenting with pumpkin muffins and thought they’d make a good breakfast treat for Thanksgiving morning. These came out really moist with just the right sweetness. I sprinkled the tops with a bit of quick oats just for fun. 1 ½ cups Whole Wheat Flour (180g)1 tsp baking soda1 tsp baking powder¼ tsp salt1 tbsp ground cinnamon½ tsp ground ginger½ tsp ground cloves½ tsp all spice1 tsp nutmeg1 15oz can of pumpkin¼ cup molasses (84 g)2 tbsp honey (42g)1 egg2 egg whites¼ cup unsweetened applesauce½ cup non-fat unflavored yogurt¾ cup Wheat Bran (45g) (available in the storeNon-stick cooking spray Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Double sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice and nutmeg. In a large bowl, add the pumpkin, molasses, honey, egg, egg whites, applesauce and yogurt. Pour the flour mixture and wheat bran into the pumpkin mixture.
Exposed: Factory Chicken Slaughterhouses Using Super-strength Chemicals to Cover Up Extreme Salmonella Contamination There is a reason why the conventional poultry industry in the U.S. has been fairly successful in recent years at lowering detected levels of salmonella in chicken. But it has nothing to do with factory birds being raised in cleaner and more humane living environments. To the contrary, a new investigative report by The Washington Post (WP) reveals that many chicken slaughterhouses are merely treating their filthy chickens with an ever-expanding volume and variety of toxic chemicals to mask the presence of more virulent salmonella strains from federal regulators. This shock finding was realized after researchers looking into the salmonella testing process for poultry identified a mismatch between levels of bacteria detected on birds and overall infection rates among the general population. Simply put, salmonella contamination rates in chicken appear to be decreasing while salmonella poisoning rates in humans have remained the same or are even increasing.
Lemony Olive Oil Banana Bread Recipe Certain adventures call for the perfect banana bread, and this was one of them. You can't really know what to expect regarding the weather when someone invites you to a late-October wedding near Monterey, California. A wedding at an off-season summer camp. I thought there was a good chance I'd be wearing Wellies under whatever dress I picked out, sloshing around in puddles. Not the case! If you drive south, and then a bit east from Monterey, the landscape changes. The banana bread - it's amazing. Congratulations Oliver & Naya, it was incredibly special to be part of your beautiful celebration - and (!)
Photographer Captures Waves of Trash in Indonesia Waves for days. Trash for eternity. That’s what photographer Zak Noyle discovered on a recent trip to Java, Indonesia. The waves of Java, always known for being pristine and barreling, were now rolling swells of disgusting trash and debris. Noyle was shooting Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya in a remote bay when he and Surinaya discovered the water to be covered in garbage, according to GrindTV. “It was crazy. In addition to the sea of plastic, large objects like tree trunks were being tossed around in the waves. Indonesia, a country comprised of more than 17,000 islands, suffers from a terrible trash problem that is polluting its waters. Often, the only other disposal option Indonesians have is burning their trash. Residents of large population centers are often the ones improperly disposing of their trash, which storms and currents carry to beaches and islands most locals have never even seen. No matter who is to blame, the effects are felt by those who live in or visit Indonesia.
No-Knead Garlic-Cheese Flatbread 1) Lightly grease a 9" x 13" pan, and drizzle 1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil in the bottom. 2) Combine all of the ingredients except the cheese and garlic, and beat at high speed with an electric mixer for 60 seconds. 3) Add the cheese and garlic, beating gently just to combine. 4) Scoop the sticky batter into the prepared pan, cover the pan, and let it rise at room temperature for 60 minutes, till it's become puffy. 5) While the dough is rising, preheat the oven to 375°F. 6) Sprinkle the dough with pizza seasoning, and/or the dried herbs of your choice, if desired. 7) Bake the bread till it's golden brown, 35 to 40 minutes. 8) Remove it from the oven, wait 5 minutes, then turn it out of the pan onto a rack. 9) To make crunchy bread sticks: Cut day-old bread into 1/2" slices. Yield: about 12 to 18 servings bread; or about fifty 6 1/2" bread sticks.
What’s Buried Next Door to Vancouver Island University? — KevinAnnett.com Crimes against Humanity in our own Backyard are Finally Surfacing I was held in the Nanaimo Indian Hospital when I was a child, for seven years. I was used like a guinea pig in experiments. Lots of Indian kids died in there. - Joan Morris, Songhees Nation, at a lecture at Malaspina College (VIU) in the spring of 2004 Just south of the VIU campus stands an overgrown piece of land behind stern barbed wire fencing: the site of the former Nanaimo Indian Hospital, run by the United Church of Canada and the federal government for over a half century. According to Joan Morris and other Indians, this ground holds the remains of children who were killed after grisly medical experiments were conducted there for decades by military doctors. This past week, Joan Morris’ testimony is helping to place Nanaimo in the news at international human rights forums in Europe. “My mother and I were both imprisoned in the Hospital in the 1960′s” she described. “Dr. In the words of Joan Morris,
whole roasted garlic clove focaccia bread : sweet beet and green bean whole roasted garlic clove focaccia bread Posted by Jacqueline Gabardy, L.Ac. on Monday, December 8, 2008 · 14 Comments i love making my own bread. there really isn’t any comparison between a fresh, out of the oven, loaf and store bought varieties. but bread can be tricky to get right - either it is too dense, the crust isn’t thick enough, or it comes out lopsided. focaccia is a simple bread to make that’s always soft on the inside with a crunchy crust. adding italian herbs to focaccia is fairly normal, but i stepped it up a notch by adding whole cloves of roasted garlic to the bread, and lots of it. i used 3 heads of garlic in one batch, but you can use more or less according to your taste. keep in mind when you roast garlic the taste mellows out significantly to a savory and almost sweet caramelized flavor that isn’t pungent in the least. for most, this means you can eat a lot more of it. bake at 400F for 18 minutes until starting to toast golden brown on top. slice up and enjoy!
«Oui, je connais Justin Bieber et j'ai un iPod !» Photo : Joannie Lafrenière J’enseigne au secondaire depuis 1978. J’ai enseigné à peu près toutes les matières : français, anglais, musique, écologie, morale, mathématiques, dans une douzaine d’écoles, dans des centres pour décrocheurs et pour délinquants, dans des classes enrichies, en formation professionnelle, en récupération scolaire et en orthopédagogie. J’ai côtoyé des adolescents brillants, mais aussi de grands écorchés, des enfants battus, victimes d’inceste, affamés, déprimés, révoltés ou réduits au silence par des souffrances insoutenables. Mon expérience et ma formation devraient donc aplanir bien des obstacles et faciliter l’exercice de ma profession, mais ma passion s’éteint peu à peu, mes convictions se désagrègent et ma foi en l’avenir s’étiole. Tous les enseignants que je connais ont été victimes de critiques injustifiées de la part de leurs élèves et des parents de ceux-ci. Autrefois, on affirmait qu’enseigner était une vocation. J’en suis à ma 32e année d’enseignement.
cinnamon swirl bread : sweet beet and green bean cinnamon swirl bread Posted by Jacqueline Gabardy, L.Ac. on Monday, March 2, 2009 · 29 Comments i first learned how to make my own bread when i worked in an italian restaurant in portland. i would make pizza dough fresh every morning so it had plenty of time to rise before we topped it with sauce, cheese, and toppings and popped it in the oven for lunch time. sure it takes hours to let the yeast do its thing, but i was surprised by the simplicity of the recipe. it’s really just a little warm water, sugar, salt, yeast, oil and flour. variations of that simple combination create most every type of bread. cinnamon swirl bread 1/3 c sugar 1 tbsp active yeast 1/2 tsp salt 1 c water 2 tbsp oil + some for greasing about 2 c white flour (i used organic) 1/4 c brown sugar 2 tbsp oil (canola works well) 1 tbsp cinnamon add the warm water, sugar, salt and active yeast together in a medium-sized bowl. let sit for 10-15 minutes or until the mixture begins to foam.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Why I changed my mind on weed Dr. Sanjay Gupta says we have been "systematically misled" on marijuanaDEA lists marijuana as a schedule 1 substance with "high potential for abuse"Most recent research on marijuana has been on its negative effects, Gupta saysStudies on marijuana require approval from National Institute on Drug Abuse (CNN) -- Over the last year, I have been working on a new documentary called "Weed." The title "Weed" may sound cavalier, but the content is not. I traveled around the world to interview medical leaders, experts, growers and patients. Long before I began this project, I had steadily reviewed the scientific literature on medical marijuana from the United States and thought it was fairly unimpressive. Well, I am here to apologize. I apologize because I didn't look hard enough, until now. Instead, I lumped them with the high-visibility malingerers, just looking to get high. Dr. Medical facts of Marijuana WEED: A Dr. I hope this article and upcoming documentary will help set the record straight.
No-Fail Whole Wheat Bread (it's not dense!) - Progressive Pioneer Though I'm still loyal to my Peter Reinhart book for making whole wheat versions of fancier breads (challah, cinnamon rolls, bagels, pita etc.), I've discovered that nothing beats my mother-in-law's recipe for simplicity, softness and tastiness. If I'm going to be making all our bread, the process needs to be pretty darn simple or it's just not going to happen. I can whip this up in under half an hour (just hands on time, not rising and baking, but you can do other stuff while that's happening). To make two loaves, mix 3.5 cups warm water, 1.5 tsp. yeast, and 1/4 c. honey in your mixer bowl and let the yeast proof. Now add the second half of the flour (another 3.5 cups). Final step: slice off a big, fat piece, slather it with butter and honey and sink your teeth in!
A Medium Sized Rain Water Collection System We decided to do a medium size rain water harvesting project by collecting water off the roof of our outbuilding shop/garage/barn. The idea is that this manageable size system could provide water for the garden and some trees, and that we could learn from it and decide if we want to do a somewhat larger system using the house roof which provides quite a bit more collection area. 2nd year update March 2013 -- a freeze problem.. One year update May 2012... Overview The shop building with its gambrel roof and the extension shed roof on one side provides a total of 925 sqft of equivalent flat collection area. We added gutters to the east and west sides to pick up the water, and then ran PVC piping to a 2500 gallon plastic tank located under the south end of the lean-to roof. The water collected by the gutters goes to an inlet at the top of the tank. The sections listed below give quite a bit of detail on the sizing and construction, which is all pretty simple. Sizing the System Performance
Grain-Free Granola | Plan to Eat Awhile ago our family did the GAPS diet, which means no sugar and no grain (among other things). I thought I would miss sugar the most, but that wasn’t the case at all. I was actually pretty okay without it. I think it might have to do with the huge amount of probiotics I’d been consuming. Has anyone else experienced this? My mom was in town for a month and gamely stuck to the diet with us. cookbook, but I modified it quite a bit, so I’ll share our version here: 1 cup pumpkin seeds 2 cups sunflower seeds 3-4 cups dried coconut large flakes 1/4 cup honey warmed if necessary 1/8 cup oil something mild, like safflower salt to taste 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup dried fruit pieces apricots, apples, date, raisins, cranberries, &c. coconut flour optional Directions Powered by We think it's soooo yummy.