Archive for August 2007

Until Death Do Us Part; but no name changes

Do you know that in Quebec the bride CANNOT adopt her husband’s last name, even if she desires to do so? This is feminism gone overboard. One mother complained, “I want to have the same name as my kids. I want the whole family to use the same name.”

A Fly in the Ointment

… or in this case, a fly in the water. A Windsor resident found a fly in a bottle of Culligan water. Mind you, he never opened the bottle or drank from it. He sued Culligan and was awarded $341,000 for mental distress. The provincial court of appeal overturned the award. Now, the Supreme Court [...]

Talent, not Friends

Henry Ford. Now that’s a name I should not have to introduce. Rather than quote Henry on a car topic (like the any colour as long as it is black) I have an HR type quote. It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire the man, [...]

We saw this coming – Polygamy

Seems that the people in Bountiful, BC, have been noticed again, and are in the news. This is a Mormon community that supposedly openly practices polygamy. Now, polygamy is illegal in Canada, but the prosecuters in BC have avoided trying to get successful prosecutions. Now it has come to the forefront again and a special [...]

Soichiro Honda

Soichiro Honda, 1906-1991, founded the Honda Motor Company in 1948. Before that he spent 6 years working as a car mechanic, learning the trade, and then 20 years running his own auto repair business. Honda turned his company into a billion-dollar multinational that produced the best-selling motorcycles in the world, even out-selling Triumph and Harley-Davidson [...]