I am trying to purchase some Saskatchewan Roughrider tickets for this summer. I go online, get sent over to Tickets.com which is like a giant ticket buying black hole. You have to enter in a Captcha every time you want to look for a ticket or change your amount of tickets everywhere on the [...]
July, 2009:
Happy 4th of July
My feeling about the United States is this. To live alongside this great country is like living with your wife. At times it is difficult to live with her. At all times it is impossible to live without her. -Lester Pearson, Prime Minister, describing Canada-U.S. relations to French statesman Charles de Gaulle. The Americans are our best [...]
More Stimulus?
Paul Krugman feels we need a bigger stimulus package. Since the recession began, the U.S. economy has lost 6 ½ million jobs — and as that grim employment report confirmed, it’s continuing to lose jobs at a rapid pace. Once you take into account the 100,000-plus new jobs that we need each month just to [...]
Hicks can’t meet payroll in Texas
I am not a big Tom Hicks fan at all so seeing him struggle to meet payroll is a kind of fun. Major League Baseball within the last week loaned millions to Tom Hicks, the evidently cash-strapped owner of the Texas Rangers, and will continue to offer financial assistance to Hicks until he is able [...]
Drought is back on the Prairies
From the Globe and Mail All across western Saskatchewan and southern Alberta, farmers are scanning crop-insurance policies and calculating how short they’ll be on payments this year as one of the worst droughts on record parches their land and their bank accounts. The dry conditions are also wreaking havoc on local wildlife, prompting watering bans [...]
Contextless Links
$400,000 in student loan debt is too much to be a lawyer in New York :: “The size of this account is extremely unusual, but not surprising given that the customer took out 32 loans to pursue undergraduate, law and masters of law studies and has not made a single monthly payment over his 26-year [...]
Happy Canada Day
To celebrate I’ll quote Malcolm Gladwell talking about what he learned about the United States. In history class, in seventh grade (or as we like to say in Canada, grade seven) we learned the story of the American Revolution — from the British perspective. Turns out you were all a bunch of ungrateful tax cheats. [...]
Regina MP commits suicide
Dave Batters committed suicide yesterday after struggling with depression for years. The family of Dave Batters released a statement Tuesday morning confirming the 39-year-old died on Monday. "The family of Dave Batters is grieving the sudden loss of their beloved husband, son and brother, who, sadly, chose to take his own life at home in [...]
Why the Globe and Mail is making a mistake
in charging $160/year for their online content. Warren Kinsella has the reasons. 6. Newspapers have to realize – but never will – that their news content is the best advertising for them. That’s what good, solid journalism is: good. It makes a case for itself. When MSM mavens hide content, people will mosey off elsewhere [...]
