[Description: on a rack at the front of a store, a red shirt with white lettering reads “LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR – STAY OVER THERE.” This is a play on a famous insurance ad jingle, “Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.”]
Although we contact a lot of people for research, this was the first time one of our writers said “I’ll call the FBI Agent I did counter-terrorism consulting with.”
That quote “He doesn’t need a lab. He needs pigs,” came directly from a dude with some dead scary security clearance.
— John Rogers, Leverage #509 “The Rundown Job” Post-Game
Now, by fake I mean: the alligator wasn’t real, it was put there as a prank by some Youtubers, to record people’s reactions. So the guy a) survived, and b) reacted as he would (AKA: fought a fucking alligator to save his friend) had it been real, because neither of them knew it wasn’t.
To quote Snopes: It appears that the “elbow drop” move was actually a real, good-faith, and quite courageous response to an uncomfortably realistic and relatively low-effort prank
Ok but like…. that still doesn’t change the fact that this absolute legend genuinely thought an alligator was about to eat his friend and he ELBOW DROPPED the fucking thing to save him!!!! That’s some true ass friendship right there
No people or animals got hurt, guy got to try and elbow drop an alligator, and his friend got to find out just how ride or die his friend is. As far as I’m concerned this makes the whole thing better.
The Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit (CRCB), which provides $500 per week for up to 26 weeks per household for workers unable to work for at least 50 per cent of the week because they must care for a child under the age of 12 or family member because schools, day-cares or care facilities are closed due to COVID-19, or because the child or family member is sick or required to quarantine or is at high risk of serious health implications because of COVID-19.
The Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB), which provides $500 per week for up to a maximum of two weeks, for workers who are unable to work for at least 50 per cent of the week because they contracted COVID-19, self-isolated for reasons related to COVID-19, or have underlying conditions, are undergoing treatments or have contracted other sicknesses that, in the opinion of a medical practitioner, nurse practitioner, person in authority, government or public health authority, would make them more susceptible to COVID-19.
The Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB), which will provide eligible workers with $500 per week for up to 26 weeks for those who have stopped working and who are not eligible for EI, or had their employment/self-employment income reduced by at least 50 per cent due to COVID-19.
However, the three new COVID benefits will be subject to 10 per cent withholding tax at source, such that a $500 benefit is $450 net, tweeted Jamie Golombek, managing director of tax and estate planning at CIBC in Toronto.
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Ngl, the 10% withholding tax is a good thing, because it will function a little more like income, and lessen the amount of tax owing in April, especially for people who have also claimed CERB/CESB, which had no tax withheld.
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