It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. I think a good cartoon is worth at least five hundred. In that spirit, I give you five hundred words by Deutsch on the history of corporate responses to regulation. Your thoughts?
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The Liberal Scarf: Leadership on the economy
Premier Dalton McGuinty has said the tax rate on new investment by small businesses will be reduced by 55%. Ontario’s economic strength depends on the strength of our businesses, large and small. That’s why Ontario Liberals are working with small busin…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Conservatives Robbed Canadians
We was robbed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives during the May 2 Federal election. The truth about the Canadian economy was withheld. Recall, the election eventually revolved around the economy. Other leading economies reeled under…
Continue reading350 or bust: The Theft Of Our Children’s Future Is A Crime
This week, the world lost a leader in sustainable business practise. Ray Anderson, founder and Chairman of Interface Carpets, passed away on August 8th. After reading Paul Hawkens’ The Ecology of Commerce in the mid 1990s, Mr. Anderson felt con…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: When "Free Trade" ain’t free
In the absence of any long term prospect for a Free Trade Area of the Americas, Canada has decided to go it alone and try for bilateral agreements. This started with the Chrétien Liberals but has continued under PMS.To date, we’ve si…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: The other shoe drops in the States
Finally, at least one of the bond rating agencies in the United States has owned up to its hypocrisies — and slapped down the country’s long standing credit rating, from AAA to AA+. The press release indicates that the agency, Standa…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: All the "easy" oil and gas may be gone, but still …
While most regions of Canada have imposed moratoriums on “fracking,” using jackhammers and / or high pressure water injections to get out natural gas, one province — British Columbia — is going, pardon the expression, full steam ahead and allowing ou…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Case against DSK on shaky ground
The free world was shocked when Dominique Strauss Kahn was charged with sexual assault a few weeks back. But now, DSK’s bail conditions have been significantly relaxed after the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (son of Jimmy Cart…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: TSX shareholders stand up for Canada
The proposed merger between the Toronto and London Stock exchanges has just been called off — after a count of the proxy votes determined that there was only a simple majority of stockholders who approved the deal. The required threshold h…
Continue readingA Sustainable Now: StFX Achieves CIMS-GB with Honours
“To help meet the growing demand for green and “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” (LEED) certification, the Cleaning Industry Management Standard & Certification Program has been expanded to include new “Green B…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Black going back to the clink
Looks like Lord Conrad Black couldn’t catch a break after all. US Federal Judge Amy St. Eve, who originally sentenced Black to 6½ years in prison on fraud and obstruction of justice, had the case remanded to her after the US Supreme …
Continue readingeaves.ca: The next Open Data battle: Advancing Policy & Innovation through Standards
With the possible exception of weather data, the most successful open data set out there at the moment is transit data. It remains the data with which developers have experimented and innovated the most. Why is this? Because it’s been standardized. Ever since Google and the City of Portland creating the General Transit Feed Specification […]
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Hamilton takes another step out of the Dark Ages
It finally looks like Hamilton is about to get out of the dark ages and allow department stores to be open 24 / 7. It only makes sense. Not that I really care for places like WalMart that much — but why is it that we have to dr…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Media Matters Report Shows Network TV Preference For Anti-Environment Guests
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Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act, R…
Continue readingEclecticLip: Book summary #30 – The Corporate Lattice
The Corporate Lattice was chosen as the book club’s thirtieth book, in recognition of the fact that the “corporate ladder” is a poor metaphor for a companies of relatively stable size. The situation is different for rapidly growing companies, who might need an ever-enlarging cadre of managers or directors to oversee burgeoning work teams.
It was also recommended […]
Things Are Good: Going Green to Bring in the Green.
A Cambridge, Ontario metal fabrication company, VeriForm, has become an ecological leader in a field notorious for neglecting the effects of their business and product on the environment. A capital investment of $78000 has allowed VeriForm to implement many small changes (i.e. a centralized programmable thermostat, high-efficiency lighting systems, etc.) which saves the company […]
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: When settlement groups go astray
Several months back, there was a huge storm when PMS cut off funding for Hamilton based SISO, the Settlement and Integration Services Organization effectively forcing it to close down. At first many felt it was a vendetta that Team Harper had again…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Strauss-Kahn arrested
When I heard the news late Saturday night after work that IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn had been arrested for an alleged sexual assault in NYC just as his flight to Paris was getting ready to take off — presumably, the flight that would take him on…
Continue readingArt Threat: The arts are vital to our prosperity
By supporting the individuals inherently inclined to create, we foster a culture in which innovative thinking is encouraged. Through their unusual vision we can draw our own alternatives in science, business and yes, even politics.
Continue readingEclecticLip: Book club summary #29 – Show Me The Numbers
Given the overriding importance of data presentation (read graphing skills) to the effectiveness of the modern “knowledge worker” it was decided that the book club would cover a book on that very subject.
Stephen Few’s Show Me The Numbers was chosen after a review of reviews (a meta-review?) on Amazon, which seemed to suggest that Edward […]