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MBOPINION Oakville Beaver | Thursday, July 13, 2023 MANY HISTORIC AND IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED, WRITES PAM DAMOFF PAM DAMOFF Column With the parliamentary session recently coming to an end, I am reflecting on the rewarding work we have accomplished dur- ing! the he past few months. fortunate to have worked on colleagues m all parties to advance loonation and draft im- portant reports to benefit all Canadians. In just 15 weeks, the House passed 15 historic bills that will help make life more _aftordable, safeguard mment, protect the publics safety of Canadi- ans and advance our com- A MEMORABLE PARLIAMENTARY SESSION CLOSES June moving forward. Spe- cial thanks to the Raptors John Wiggins for working with me on this. Asa member of the spe- heard first the desperate conditions in Afghanistan since the Tali- an takeover. I was proud to work across party lines to provide Canadian aid or- aid to those in Afghanistan (Bill C-41). vernment, we were proudly able to intro- duce legislation that estab- lishes the Canada Disabili- ty Benefit (Bill C-22) to re- duce poverty and support the financial security of working persons with disa- bilities. Another historic mile- stone made was our com- mitment to ensuring fami- lies across Canada have ac- cess to affordable, inclu- sive and high-quality early learning and child care (Bill C-35). While agreements have been reached with all p) legislation enshrines into mitment to We've accomplished a it as fe collective, working public safety, Rateecy with keeping ir communities safefrom gun violence (Bill C-21) and investments right here in Halton through the Build- ing Safer Communities Fund. I would be remiss to not mention the milestone of along- 2 side the Toronto Raptors, § which will now take place § from coast to coast to coast ¥ on the first Friday of every 2 law our to ear- ly learning and child care. ol am pro’ roud bo represent in Ottawa and I am looking forward t to spend- ing time in the community this summer. For a full list of accom- plishments and more de- tails on the spring session, visit my website at MPDa- off.ca. Pam Damoff is the MP for Oakville North-Bur- lington and the parliamen- tary secretary to the min- ister of public safety. She can be reached at pam.da- moff@parl.gc.ca. TO LEARN HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR OWN CONTENT VISIT INSIDEHALTON.COM SNAPSHOT ——<—<—<———— eee) a |} —=— ——, Sa Jaquibe Inyomouf photo A mallard duck takes a dip at the stormwater management pond at Postmaster Drive and Upper Middle Road. Do sleblanc@metroland.com, along with a brief description. you have a great local photo you'd like to share? Send it to Al CAN'T PREDICT STOCK MARKET VALUES THERE IS NO MAGIC FORMULA TO SUCCESSFULLY PREDICTING STOCK VALUES, WRITES PETER WATSON Can artificial intelli- gence (AI) be used to suc- cessfully predict stock val- ues’ The enefit off ‘ALi is the an extremely fast rate. Investing is different. It requires an opinion of the crease? Should you sell be- cause the value will de- cline? The best source of vast amounts of information about stock values is the stock m of th stock bantieg ae a : giant i in PETER WATSON Column formation processing ma- chins Millions of buyers and sellers of investments in- corporate public and pri- vate information about a stock. ‘hey agree on a specific price and then buy/sell at that price. AI can have a role to play that is based on what is known. If you want to study a specific company or industry, AI could be of assistance. If you use that informa- tion to find "deals," then I would caution you about doi Evidence on having the ability to consistently pre- dict the market shows that is not possible. Research and investor experience has consistent- ly shown that there is no mula to success- fully predicting stock val- ues. AI will continue to get id d and sophis- ABOUT This newspaper, published every of newspapers is comprise publications across Ontario. 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