Some employees of the Ontario Provincial Government are getting new jobs with the Federal Government, as well as severance for losing their old jobs.
Yes, a blatant case of double-dipping, but do not blame the employees or their union. Blame the government negotiators who gave them such a sweet deal without some additional “but only if”s.
According [...]
In a post 2 days ago, I told the story about Finance Minister Jim Flaherty taking a private jet to a photo op about the federal government saving money. Now comes another story of the good use of our money.
How about $1,000 to put in a doorbell, or the same amount to replace a light [...]
Does Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty know that saying? Possibly.
Jim delivered a budget last Thursday that said the federal government will have to rein in spending. He then had a private government jet fly him to London Ontario so he could participate in a photo op on Friday morning.
Why not a photo op right there [...]
The opening salvo in an article in the Globe and Mail today bluntly says what I suggested yesterday – some men think with the wrong part of their body.
Take a man – we’ll call him Adam Giambrone – with a blossoming political career and a steady partner who looks A-1 in her pearls on the [...]
What do you think when you hear that phrase from a politician?
“A serious lapse in judgment.”
The latest to say that is a young (33 in March 2010) mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He stated it in response to news of him having an inappropriate relationship with a young woman. Basically, he was [...]
Interesting book that was discussed on a radio show I happened upon. “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”, by author Lori Gottlieb.
To quote some of the description that I found on Amazon …
Suddenly finding herself forty and single, Lori Gottlieb said the unthinkable in her March 2008 article in The Atlantic: [...]
The Apple iPad. We knew it was coming. It was just a question of features and pricing.
Well, the experts think the pricing is aggressive. The jury might be out on features.
Here is Grandpa Richard’s quick view.
pricing = not sure
size = plus
colour = plus
touch keypad = good
no SD card slot = bad (although an optional card [...]
Avatar.
Final Fantasy XIII.
Graphics keep getting better as hardware becomes more powerful.
“Imagine when 3D TV gets good enough, and priced right for common home use”, I stated to a friend.
His response was to bring up the idea of 3D virtual reality, possibly as portrayed on this Wikipedia page. He went further to contemplate the idea of [...]
Interesting item in the Toronto Star about the so-called “Chicago School” of neo-con economists, whose free-market doctrines laid the groundwork for the epic global financial crisis we’ve just endured.
Some of them have been converted to Keynesianism, but there are others still in denial.
The best part of the article was the following comment that a reader [...]
Infrastructure. Not a very sexy topic. In fact, a topic that gets ignored, except when that infrastructure breaks.
What do I mean by infrastructure? The best examples are roads, bridges, hydro systems, phone systems, and the most insidious – water and sewer systems.
What is so special about water and sewer? They are out of sight, [...]
