It is clear that Canada truly makes its’ mark on the world in subtle ways. U.S. Aid to Pakistan – $150 Million (about 50 cents per capita) 27 Member states of European Union Aid to Pakistan – $90 Million (about 18 cents per capita) China Aid to Pakistan (note China says Pakistan is their closest [...]
I remember living in Toronto and watching The Wall at The Wall during a lightning storm back in the summer of 1990. The song was so representative of the Berlin Wall that had fallen some 8 months earlier. But since the day Reagan told Gorbachev to tear down the wall, it has also come to [...]
Bizarro world collided with NeverNeverLand this past week for me. On Tuesday June 29th I received a very unexpected and very welcome invitation from the PMO to attend a special dinner in the presence of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. At first I thought I was on [...]
Cost of the G8/G20 summits? $1.2 Billion Outcome of G8/G20 summits? 7 of the 8 G8 nations are cutting their deficit by 50% and cutting their debt to GDP ratio. i.e. they are cutting spending by billions upon billions over the next few years. It’s as simple as that. My message to those who criticize [...]
No this is not a breakdown of the cost of the G8/G20 summits taking place in Huntsville and The Big Smoke this year. This is my analysis of the whole “G8/G20 Cost” debate. Question: Did it need to be over a Billion dollars? OfficiallyScrewed.com Answer: It wasn’t over a billion dollars. Sure, maybe it was [...]
When I was a young man still in University I was offered my first credit card. It was a GM VISA with a $500 spending limit. Considering I didn’t have $500 to my name and summer was coming I was ecstatic that I would be able to load up my tackle box and pick up [...]
In the news today, Sylvester the Cat was elected to sit on the panel responsible with determining the safety guidelines and regulations on bird cages. He made it clear that he feels the tensile strength regulations on bird cages are too stringent and that cost reductions can be realized if a thinner material was used [...]
I’m Canadian but I am also a first generation Greek Canadian. My parents immigrated to Canada in the mid 1960′s and the past few months I have been seething about what is going on in Greece. You see I often joke about the woprldwide recession not affecting Greece because Greece has been in a depression [...]
I was watching a short interview with Jon Montgomery and I felt bad that he had to note that he was not an alcoholic or anything after he was filmed taking a couple of gulps out of a pitcher of beer shoved into his hands after he won gold in the Men’s Skeleton. Don’t worry [...]
From Glenn Beck’s new book Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government comes this clip about privatization corporatization. A.D.D. Moment – New Zealand corporatized their postal service in 1987. As Cornell professor Richard Geddes notes, that change “led to improvements in efficiency, a 40% reduction in the system’s workforce, a doubling [...]
