Category: Uncategorized
-
Target Offers One Year Credit Monitoring
They wanted your banking information yet you are a retail shopper. American big box comes to Canada and thinks by tying your discount to your banking information they think they’ll turn you into a customer life. Well, it’s all back fired for them and their paternalistic marketing ploy has been handed back to them on…
-
“Longer Hours” Writes Paul Luke from The Province
If fifty-five to sixty hours per week at work is becoming the norm as Mr. Luke suggests in his article “Longer hours, more stress: The New Reality in the Canadian Workplace”, it’s time to really examine how this has come about. There has been no time in history where we’ve had such tremendous access to…
-
U.S Possibly Extends Unemployment Benefits Yet Again
USA Today reports that there are now three job seekers for every job opening but with this moderately competitive market and very realistic opportunity to find work within 26 weeks for the unemployed, apparently some still think 26 weeks is not enough. Since the recession of 2008 particular states offered workers up to 99 weeks…
-
Urban X Country Skiing Better Than The Gym
My loving parents bought me skis when in 8th grade. The brand name was Torino and couldn’t wait to try them out on the new snow at the side of our modest duplex on the Sahali hill in Kamloops. Just to feel gravity work on this new equipment was thrill in itself never mind the…
-
A Remembrance Day Thought
World War II was the deadliest of all wars and the statistics are incomprehensible. These men and women had you and I buried in their subconscious minds as they marched along the front day and night side by side in surveillance and in battle. If echoes of their voices chime in your soul as you…