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Okay, it was Canada’s turn to host the G20 and we had a responsibility to do it in spite of the fact that in my opinion it is just a high priced photo op. You can’t really tell me that the positions of the member countries wasn’t already set before the conference started and for [...]

I’m starting to hear quite a bit of rumbling about Senate reform being a issue in the next election. I’m not necessarily against the idea after all the system isn’t working properly the way it is now but I am afraid that the government will make the whole process even worst than it is now.

The cable/satellite companies are engaged in a massive advertising campaign against local television stations for wanting to get paid for their product. The CRTC has allowed the cable/satellite companies to use the signals coming from the local stations for free since their beginning and charge their customers for stations they have never paid for.
Now, I’ll [...]

There’s been a lot of stuff around lately on the upcoming Harmonized Sales Tax in Ontario. Depending on who is speaking or writing the HST is either the worst thing to happen to Ontario or the best so I decided to look into it myself.
It is clear that some things will cost more than [...]

There was an article posted today on the Toronto Star’s website (http://www.thestar.com/business/article/682152) about how the Toronto stock exchanges took a dive today based on a “sharp falloff in the Reuters-University of Michigan consumer sentiment index, which followed a surprisingly weak July retail sales report”.
Apparently, the brilliant insight that “the American consumer won’t be much [...]