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  • Ambushed At Walmart

    So now that Target has compromised your data, Walmart has it figured that they are going to welcome you home. You can now expect an intrustion into your Walmart shopping experience by an “interceptor”. Apparantly, WalmartCanada has installed them into stores so that they can come up to you and ask if you have yet…

  • Alberta’s Sunshine List

    I haven’t read it yet although it’s been available in the public domain for a week now.  Government bureaucrats are making serious dough and they don’t want you to know about it even though as Albertans – you pay their salary.  Not surprisingly, more than 300 folks in your government earn more than $100,000 per…

  • 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…