Canada needs Conrad Black
In honour of Victoria Day, one presumes, Conrad Black, the former industrialist and onetime newspaper baron, he of the British peerage – his lordship, if you will – took part in what reportedly will be his one and only sit-down media interview, chatting with the CBC’s chief...
Does Facebook’s face-plant mean we’ve learned something?
The relatively poor showing of Facebook’s initial public offering of its shares on the NASDAQ exchange shows that, perhaps, finally, the hype around the social networking site may finally be abating. As I post this, Facebook shares have closed around $31 after their third day of...
Help! I’m addicted to real estate porn
For reasons I can’t explain, I feel a need to redo my kitchen. Which is odd, because I really like my kitchen. Never mind that we renovated it 10 years ago when we moved into our house, or that (by design) it’s relatively neutral and timeless, neither...
What will replace newspapers?
Ever since I can remember, I’ve read and loved newspapers. I got hooked on the comics pages when I was 5 or 6, migrated to sports, and then graduated to the rest of the paper. My parents subscribed to the Toronto Star and the weekly Canadian...
Attacking public sector workers is a bad idea
During economic downturns, people have a tendency to turn on one another. We blame victims and eat our own. I’ve been alive long enough to have seen it more than once before. It’s wrong, but I get it. The urge to help one’s fellow human during...
Generation X gets shafted – again
A recent study by PwC Canada of the Canadian banking sector found that Generation X – roughly defined as people born between 1961 and 1981, after the Baby Boom – are being squeezed in the financial industry by Boomers who aren’t retiring and by Boomers’ “Generation Y” offspring, who...