David Braley, owner of a Canadian professional football team, is donating $5 million to a hospital. The hospital is using most of it to create new operating rooms. If we truly need these new operating rooms, why isn’t our government creating them?
More HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes are coming to the GTA. Good.
I use GO every workday, and I have even used it to get to Toronto on the weekend, leaving my car at home or at a local park-and-ride. I totally agree with making things easier (faster) for the GO system, and keeping the price [...]
A 15 year-old killed in the halls of his Toronto school. A first.
Some of the reactions are, of course, knee-jerk. Ban guns. Well, yes, that would be great, but you’ll never get the U.S. on board, and you’ll also never dry up the supply chains.
No, I probably don’t have the answers, but to me [...]
How about $40 a cup coffee? Now that’s high end coffee.
Indonesia has these cat-like mammals called civets. See the Wikipedia article if you are curious.
These civets, as part of their diet, eat coffee cherries. Their gut only digests the outer layer, and the remainder of the bean is excreted. These left-overs are retrieved by locals, [...]
We’ve all heard about tennis elbow, and similar repetitive strain injuries. Well, it seems the medical community has discovered a new one. Centenarian Arm.
People celebrating special birthdays like 100 are more numerous than in the past, and they tend to be given special parties with lots of guests. All these guests want to congratulate the [...]
McDonald’s, the fast food giant, has taken offence to the fact that six years ago, dictionary giant Oxford added the term “McJob” to its dictinaries. What is a McJob? It is “an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector“.
McDonald’s has started a movement to have the [...]
A co-worker, upon reading about my granddaughter’s credit card application, suggested that Jasmine should pick up her favourite crayon, fill in the application, and mail it in.
Market pressures, my foot!
It is market pressures to increase margins on a permanent basis, that’s what it is. Even OPEC is complaining about our gas prices.
I have heard about these things, and now I have seen it for myself. Today’s mail brought an envelope addressed to Jasmine, my 4-1/2 year old granddaughter. She can’t read yet, so her mom opened it and read it.
It was a Capital One MasterCard Application Form.
At least they had an appropriate check box in the [...]
Microsoft is claiming that Open Source products, notably among the list is Linux, have violated over 200 Microsoft held patents. For details, see this article.