Dear blog dogs. Thank you for sharing another milestone with me. Peace. Joy. Woof.
May the year to come bring us the courage to accept what we cannot control, the wisdom to profit from it and the ability to suffer the fools among us. May we forgive the house lusty, the deplorables and the deleted. Tho we walk in the valley of the shadow of condos, we will not be dismayed or broken. Let us tolerate and forgive the moisters, the wrinklies, mutual fund salesguys, Chinese dudes, Trumpians and all leaders with tats.
May we always recall why canines are the patron saints of this site. Patience. Purity of thought. Balanced lives (40% eat, 60% sleep). And, unlike your mother, they love you even if you rent.
Make it a day to remember. Rich memories. Think you’ll need them.
Merry Christmas!
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Merry Xmas. Yer a funny dude! Fun blog. And thanks lord emperor trump for the Christmas bonus!!!
Buon Natale d’Italia Garth et. al.
bsant
Merry Christmas Garth!
Hi Garth ,
Merry Christmas.
Many thanks for your consistent knowledge sharing and doing this wonderful social service.
Merry Christmas Garth from Molly(Golden Retriever) and Major(Bulldog) faithful readers of your blog and thankful for the canine pictures!
Merry Christmas Garth, Dorothy, Bandit, and all the blog dogs.
I remember that photo you posted a few months ago of Bandit relaxing in his “detached” dog house. He definitely has come a long way since you and your better half adopted him from that shelter.
Merry Christmas Garth, Dorothy, and Bandit.
Merry Christmas Blog Dogs!
Merry Christmas Garth.
Merry Christmas Garth! All the best in 2017!
Merry Christmas to you, Dorothy and Bandit! A howl out of happy holidays to all the blog dogs. Thanks Garth for all you do.
Yes. God. Dog, God spelled backwards. No mistake here.
Yes. A Milestone that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Thanks Garth!
Merry Christmas to everyone!
You forgot seven percent poop and watch human slaves pick it up in little blue plastic bags.
Do dogs find this behaviour strange?
Merry Christmas. Hopefully we see another. With Trump in charge of the bomb, I’m less confident we will.
Touche Garth and Merry Christmas! Cheers!
Merry Christmas!
Thanks for all the good work all year round.
Merry Christmas & Happy 2017 Garth. May you reign long & prosper with yours !
Merry Christmas Garth, to you and yours,
We’re grateful for all that you do, and look forward to more in 2017.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.
GOD BLESS.
Garth, Merry Christmas to you too and to all the ‘dawgs’.
Now retired and totally into your above 40/60 % ratio!
Merry Christmas to you to Garth, and may you go another year without being exposed by wikileaks or being filtered by PropOrNot.
PS Check this out:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/154704499366/called-it
Maybe Trump was destiny. For what purpose I don’t know but I guess we’ll find out.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays Garth – Abby and Shanara wanted me to also add – woof woof woof.
Same to you Garth ! Merry Christmas !!!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Garth, Dorothy and Bandit.
All I want is bikes (cars) babes and balanced portfolios.
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Feliz Natal pra todos e Prospero Ano Novo !!!
Proud to be a deplorable tattooed Trump in driving a Kia.
May Garth actually get some predictions right in 2017.
Best to all for the holidays.
Waiting for Smokie to say he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus…..
Damn spell check……..I feel like Smoking Man after too many drinks.
That should be Trumpian driving a Kia.
You need an edit post feature big time.
Merry Christmas Garth! Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us!
Thanks to Garth and Ryan for all the great posts. Much appreciated.
Happy holidays to everyone.
Happy holidays to everyone from all of us working musicians at gtrz4peace! Hoping next year will not be the international disaster it looks like it could become with the clueless KKK wannabes taking over the US government in January, but we’re ready. Hope you are too. – Namaste
Thank you for sharing.
Merry X-mas.
Garth, was wondering what you think of Kevin O’Leary for Conservative leader.
Looks like he’s building up steam and the current crop of hopefuls don’t have any star power to go against Trudeau, the Tax King with a smile.
Thanks and happy holidays!
And a year end toast to the Poloz Peso.
Now buying fewer things at Dollarama.
Shine yer shoes Guv? Only a ha’penny.
Merry Christmas to all blog dogs and to Garth and his minions.
May the New Year bring you the ability to look into the future, the courage to know you are right, the guts to do something about it, and the resolve to stick it out until your decision bears fruit.
Have a great Xmas everyone. Much to rejoice in this peaceful part of the world we live in….
It’s 5 o’clock. Margarita time!!!!
I can tolerate and forgive the moisters, the wrinklies, Chinese dudes, Trumpians and all leaders with tats.
Forgiving mutual fund salesguys is going too far.
What great year. Belive it or not I learn a hell of lot from other Muts on here. Man, the way Garth can put words together on here everyday amazing.
My highlight this year was using all courge I could muster and drove to the forks and visiting the general store. And met the God of dogs.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, And to my fellow Nictonites. Happy Nictofestavis.
Gelukkig kerst feest, Garth.
Merry Christmas!
A toast to everyone that I consider my extended family. I hope we all make good decisions to riches next year.
Garth thankful you put up with all this as I believe this is my safety pin of a place. Bring us truth on issues and lay down the facts.
Cheers all!
Santa only rewards the people who were nice.
May Garths Christmas stocking runneth over.
A lump of coal for the 21st Century “Scrooges”
ie ReMax cartel.
To the rest of you good people
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night
Merry Christmas Garth!
Let us pray for a post-Christmas gift of a market selloff in January. May we have the wisdom to load up when it does.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, and thank you for this informative blog.
From a wrinkly and her wrinklier.
Merry Christmas Garth
Merry Christmas Ryan and Doug
Merry Christmas Blog dogs
Be safe out there!
Donald Trump says that the days of political correct oppression are over and we can say Merry Christmas again. So Merry Christmas to Garth and everyone reading the blog!
Thanks Garth, my lovely wife and I have a balanced growing portfolio thanks to your years of continued guidance. Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas all! And especially to our host and financial maven Gartho to whom all our deplorable asses would be aimless without! All the best for a safe and happy holidays and New Year!
Oh yeah I’ve been on the 53rd, and in the 54th’s washroom. Didn’t make small talk with locals.
Here on the Least Coast for the week.
Merry Christmas. Thanks for everything, buddy
Nothing like sharing Christmas Eve with your family. Thanks Garth for the great year of advice, and of course, humour. And remember all…..in dog we trust.
Gartho is going all spiritual on us, 2017 is the year he redeems his soul
Garth, wishing you, your family (includes Bandit) and the Amozons all the best. Thank you for everything.
Bound Natale
Merry Christmas, Garth, Ryan, and Doug! Thank you for sharing your wisdom so we can profit from it! Thanks for the reminders to value our time, health, dogs, and family above all.
Merry Christmas….and God Bless President Trump !!
Merry Christmas, Garth. Thanks for an informative and entertaining year reading your blog! Wish I could say the same about the comments. :-)
Merry Christmas to Garth, Ryan, Doug and all the Dawgs. Another year of ideas shared and aspersions cast. All the best in 2017 and long live Greater Fool!
Garth, the real reason that dogs and blogdogs love you???
You have a “funny bone”
That works.
My love and I thank you for your advice and humor.
We have a good adviser and a balanced portfolio.
Thanks to your advice.
Have a great Christmas and (sort of) sober new year. (Oh to hell with it.) get drunk and stupid. I forgive you.
Al
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All.
Thanks Garth, for the all the laughs.
What are your thoughts regarding Kevin O’leary running for the PC leadership?
Tho we walk in the valley of the shadow of condos, we will not be dismayed or broken.”
Garth, please don’t go all Coolio rap on us, but if you do, go all the way bro’…here’s some notes for ya ditty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpGbzYlnz7c
Merry Christmas!
batlh bIlopjaj!
God(s) bless!
Merry Christmas to Garth and everyone else!!!
Merry Christmas everyone!
On Boxing day I am going to play basketball with my kids – starting new tradition.
Merry Christmas Garth and all blog dogs
Watch a couple of cousins who are realtos saying how the market is really slow ( no kidding). Both were hoping for it to pick up but not expecting the GTA to do well. Believes next few years could get bad. I didnt say much just sitting quite and listening. Happy Housing Crash Everyone! :-) you realtors can cherry pick data and lie all you like but the crash is here :-) why else would you guys be here posting everyday to convince others everything is ok?
Merry Christmas everyone and all the best in 2017. Thank you Garth for putting up with all of us. Looking forward to many more blog posts.
Thank you Garth for another year of wisdom at rock bottom prices. You’re not always accurate, but you’re generally close; besides, it’s always a great read.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Looking forward to another year of wit and clarity.
Cheers!
Merry Christmas; Funny, it used to make me so riled that the PC Police insisted on Happy Holidays. Now that its OK again I feel sort of shy about saying Merry Christmas. Stalin said” religion is like a nail, the harder you hit it the deeper it goes.” Well, the cats are curled in front of the fire & my thoughts go to the baby Jesus born on this night in a manger 2 millennium ago.
Ok, it was pretty hard to figure out what was real and not before Garth came along because we already had 13.5 billion years of hydrogen and stars and blow-ups leading to our 3.4 billion year old planet of all kids of heavy atoms followed by 500 million years of carbon doing what it does and that made bazzillions of creatures who all eat each other. Seems pretty pointless and cruel, and said God who might have started this hasn’t been very forthcoming about his identity leaving pretty much everyone to come up with a different conclusion.
However, I believe I have come up with definitive proof tonight of all nights that we live in some sort of “matrix”, like the movie. I mean computers are already hard enough to believe even though I am typing on one, but then what about an ant’s brain? This thing is smaller than a fraction of a rain drop and it can function in a social environment? No. But the final proof.
Tonight, being Christmas and the kids have all gone to bed so as not to spoil the Santa Clause myth, I went to crack out a little Colts cigar. I wish I could put up a photo. The tobacco part is there, and it’s all wrapped nicely in plastic, but the tip is not there even though the plastic is formed as if the tip was there, although it’s clearly not.
This, folks, was probably a message sent to me by the “red pill” people. All these things are just programming in the matrix and the missing tip was a message. How can there be plastic formed over a missing tip? They knew to communicate with me.
Of course if I am right about this than the housing bubble and balanced portfolios and all that are equally just part of the matrix. Good luck figuring it out because none of it is real. Whatever real might be. The universe we think we live in certainly isn’t. It probably doesn’t even really exist. Galaxies that are 13 billion light years away? For what purpose? More likely Santa is sneaking in to my bedroom and carrying on with my wife because she’s a naughty little Santa’s helper.
Merry Christmas Garth, Dorothy, Bandit and the intellectual Dynamic Duo – Doug and Ryan. Thank you for sharing your financial wisdom and humour – and for helping Dad with his dough.
May the coming year bring a healthful balance of leisure and business pursuits (or bidness in leisure suits) and a more compassionate outlook on the whole planet – not just the various humans in it. Bless us all.
M53BC
Merry X-mas.
Thank you for sharing!
Merry Christmas Mr. Turner. Peace and good health to you, your family, colleagues, and the blog dogs for whom you write. And Bandit.
Merry Christmas Garth & Co. May Kevin O Leary commit and begin to badger our petulant PM into quitting when Trumps boys are dragging him behind the barn for the umpteenth time for his spanking. I have faith that the liberals will dissolve into quivering jello now that their American influencers aren’t paying the freight. 2017 will be a great year to pick stocks as always. I wonder how many people are following the pick up in volume of some of the micro caps that were very beaten down since the 09 financial collapse and some energy issues in 15….just saying. May I point out that advertising revenue will return to print in an improving economy……and it pays a great dividend……hint hint……have a great year ya’ll
Written with the third glass of Scotch in hand.
Merry Christmas, Garth, Ryan, and Doug!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom and your humour.
Happy Holidays Sir Garth and thank you for making a difference.
I wish you health and happiness for 2017… the rest you can buy yourself.
#73 Stock Picker on 12.25.16 at 2:25 am
Merry Christmas Garth & Co. May Kevin O Leary commit and begin to badger our petulant PM into quitting when Trumps boys are dragging him behind the barn for the umpteenth time for his spanking. I have faith that the liberals will dissolve into quivering jello now that their American influencers aren’t paying the freight. 2017 will be a great year to pick stocks as always. I wonder how many people are following the pick up in volume of some of the micro caps that were very beaten down since the 09 financial collapse and some energy issues in 15….just saying. May I point out that advertising revenue will return to print in an improving economy……and it pays a great dividend……hint hint……have a great year ya’ll
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Torstar?
happy christmas
merry newyear 2017
everyone
Garth, Thank you for all the wisdom you share with us daily…I don’t know how you commit to us dogs daily!
Dorothy, I don’t know how you put up with all of Garth’s attention to us yappy, demanding dogs!
Bandit, you keep your family balanced by needing walks in the fresh air.
Blog Dogs, we are a pack, some balanced, some needing rehabilitation, but we are dedicated to Garth and his wonderful insightful blog.
Merry Christmas All!
#40 Bram on 12.24.16 at 8:10 pm
Gelukkig kerst feest, Garth.
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Krestfeest – one word with kapital K
Thanks, Garth! Merry Christmas to you and yours, the Turner Investments team, and to all blog dogs, even the ones who drive me nuts with their comments sometimes. Peace to all
Merry Christmas to Garth and Smoking Man!
#73 Stock Picker:- Why spoil a nice Christmas by mentioning the name of Kevin O Leary who wants to run for the Conservative Party. He is Canada’s biggest blowhard and Harper was bad enough for a lifetime of utter misery.
Merry Christmas to All!
Happy Christmas to the crazy smoker dude. Has there ever been a better Christmas song written.. I think not. A joyful celebration of drunken deplorables.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
Merry Christmas everyone!
@Reality is an illusion: But have you experienced any deja-vu recently? That’s the real giveaway.
63 Something has to give… on 12.24.16 at 12:15 am
Third, sputtering economy continues (Oct. – 0.3% GDP). Everyone talks %’s which is utter BS.
I look at dollars, which you can spend and invest unlike %’s. Here is our GDP last few years in US $ billions:
2012 = $1824.3
2013 = $1837.4
2014 = $1783.8
2015 = $1550.5
2016 = $1239.6 (to the end of October, annualized)
Since and versus 2014, US $0.78 trillion has disappeared from GDP.
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Wow! – you are right. WTF
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/canada/gdp
OK…. blocking out the afternoon of the 28th to read Smoking Man’s magnum opus …
I’ll read it with a glass of scotch.
Ho ho ho!!!
WOOF
#81 NoName
Krestfeest – one word with kapital K
Let’s compromise at Kerstfeest :-)
Merry Xmas Blog Dogz. Thank You all, for your laughs, comments and predictions. Keep her rolling, Garth. God Bless.
PB43
Merry Christmas to all
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Garth and Dorothy…And the Bandit!!
Hope this finds you well and careful on the icy patches.
A Merry Christmas to all the blog dogs!
and a Happy New Year!
Adele , Bill , Fiona and the Zoomer Cat
Much thanks for the daily read, Garth. You are a saint for putting this out day after day. Merry Christmas to you and yours.. and all of the blog dogs too!
Santa left me a Christmas Card this year with a little message inside which was sweet of him. Imagine my shock, as it said Harper was Krampus in disguise and Ho Ho he had to go.
#86 Renter’s Revenge! on 12.25.16 at 11:07 am
Merry Christmas everyone!
@Reality is an illusion: But have you experienced any deja-vu recently? That’s the real giveaway.
I used to experience the deja vu plenty before not now hardly ever. Program upgrade I suppose.
Merry Christmas to you and your family Garth! Thank you for doing what you do.
Merry Christmas to all. This is the time of year I like to remiss. My youngest daughter likes to travel. Her last trip was to Antarctica. She has been to every continent – I expect Siberia is next on her list. Antarctica!! – her daughter is one of the most happiest children I know. She is dark – reminds of my mother. My daughter named her Savana – probably after the African plains.
My former wife said I would have been proud as she never even whimpered giving birth. I have to wait and see what my grandchildren bring. My nephews look to be big and I expect them to be smart.
It looks as if I am getting back on track with my investments. Last year was terrible.
Merry Christmas
Praise Allah
Merry Christmas Garth!
Merry Christmas Garth.
No need for courage to accept what we cannot control – that’s just the way it is. Wassail!
#68 fishman bad news He might have been a goldbug as was gifted with the same (3 wise men)
Merry Christmas Mr. G! Thanks again for the blog. Hope 2017 is the year you start thinking seriously of running for the top job in the country and draining Canada’s swamp of leaders with tats.
Merry Xmas Garth. My wish for 2016 – Realtor Commissions based on list price …. nothing more
err 2017
Merry Christmas to you and your family Garth. Thanks from someone who has learned and gained a lot of valuable info from your blogs!
Amen Garth,
Merry Christmas to everybody on this blog and thanks to our blog dog’s Chief Executive Officer,
God bless Canada !
Merry Christmas Garth!
May the year to come bring us the courage to accept what we cannot control.
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A lot has changed this year about what “we
can or can’t control”.
Merry Christmas Garth, and blog dogs.
May your health be forever in good standing and your contribution to this country and its citizens be forever valuable.
Merry Christmas to all with a special thanks to Garth for all he does.
Interstellar Carbon Tax
Kristie got a message
Mars had water,
images of constructing
biggest hydro dam,
but first must clear all
the environmental points,
will work on it until
bright green light.
Ho, ho, ho,
All for Canada.
Canadian jobs and
Canadian businesses,
Ho, ho, ho.
Now T2 ears perked
wants in the act,
multi billion deficit
for an oil pipeline,
as for the infrastructure
international bank system,
star to star accomplishment
interstellar pipeline dream.
Any spills or disasters
world class response,
now we feel really safe
no worries at all,
and any emissions
Interstellar Carbon Tax,
and just think all this
for us Canadians!
Merry Christmas, To All!
Together
A Part
Not Apart
Is Where
We Gather
Our better
Nature
Is Where Nature
Nutures Or
Hearts
Best Wishes Jess
Merry Christmas Garth & Co, thanks for sharing your common sense & putting up with us! Here’s hoping for a Happy New Year! Here’s to:
-oil up
-new pipelines
-slow RE correction
-the Donald behaving
-O’Leary?
-nah, Brad Wall
Merry Christmas, Garth and team. Thank you for trying your darndest to enlighten and educate this sorry lot and to talk some sense into a society that is financially senseless. I really enjoy reading this blog and appreciate all of your insight. Looking forward to a wonderful 2017!
Merry Christmas Garth and all the Blog Dogs!
Wishing you and your family as much goodness and decent health in the year ahead..
I might not agree with you always but have become addicted to following your blog even when travelling in obscure places. I have also become motivated to support K’OL in 2017 yup its time for a change in this great country especially with the thought of the JT crew driving our Cdn $$ To the depths of despair.