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…
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Media Matters Report Shows Network TV Preference For Anti-Environment Guests
media-matters.jpg 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...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Training week…
(originally written Jan 25) I’m in training pretty much the whole week — which fact one of my horoscopes must’ve predicted. I mean, there are so many of them floating…
Book club summary #28 – Understanding A3 Thinking
A long-time proponent of the “A3″ reporting format (which aims to summarize a problem and its solution in a roughly 11″ x17″ sheet of paper) it was a delight to…
Switzerland: Swiss Franc -ly Under Attack
Separate reports this week in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zuericher Zeitung (NZZ) are highlighting the difficult choices Switzerland, and by extension other nations, are facing in the continued onslaught of…
Book club summary #27 – Financial Intelligence
Hmm… life’s busy-ness sure didn’t return to normal, there… Anyways, here’s the 27th book we covered in the work business book club: Financial Intelligence. It was chosen because of the…
Book club summary #26 – Getting to Yes
Hmm… missed out a few weeks there. Life’s busy-ness has only now returned to normalcy. Getting to Yes was chosen as the book club’s 26th volume because it deals with…
You Know It’s Bad When …
Stephen Taylor recognizes that the Conservative Party campaigns like they're capitalists, but governs like they're communists. There's hope yet for thoughtful fiscal conservatism in Canada.
The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Coming!
So, the free market-loving, small government-lusting Conservative government has taken a decidedly protectionist stance with regards to Potash Corporation in the name of political expediency. It'll be fun when we…