MaxPower April 27th, 2009
Canadian Banks are getting some hate from the international community. Why? They are too good. We give banks a lot of stick around here too, but everyone has to admit that our hyper-conservative banking industry, what with an oligopoly and fees + fees for everything at least isn’t collapsing around us. Way to go! (?) […]
Tags: bank, canada, News, oligopoly
Posted in News | 3 Comments »
Gordon McDowell October 10th, 2008
Candidates for local ridings don’t quite qualify as news… at least in Calgary. Let’s face it, this province will be electing Conservatives until the day a Conservative prime minister is caught on video devowering a baby’s heart. Voting Conservative… it’s what we do. This is probably why I can never find decent coverage when I’m […]
Tags: 2008, calgary candidates, calgary center, calgary center-north, calgary centre, calgary centre-north, calgary ridings, canada, Election
Posted in Event, Politics | 1 Comment »
MaxPower August 6th, 2008
There is a nice (unattributed) quote I like to pull out whenever people start to think that their, or their company’s or Canada’s accomplishments are gaining some traction globally. No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats there are approximately 1 billion Chinese who couldn’t care less. However, Mark Rowswell, better known […]
Tags: Beijing, canada, Dashan, Olympics
Posted in News | 3 Comments »
David Gluzman June 13th, 2008
After months of hesitation, Industry Minister Jim Prentice has finally revealed his re-write of Canada’s rules of copyright. As expected, the bill contains major concessions to the American entertainment industry. Prentice’s bill forbids Canadians from engaging in ordinary practices such as ripping DVDs onto video iPods, unlocking digital phones for use with a competitor’s services, […]
Tags: canada, dmca
Posted in Art, Culture, Technology, WTF | 5 Comments »
David Gluzman April 14th, 2008
Tags: bank, bank of montreal, canada, interest, suck
Posted in Rant | 13 Comments »