Archive for January, 2007
Conservative enough?
After angering core supporters by taxing income trusts, the Tories must now prove themselves investor-friendly
If there’s something Paul Pagnuelo does not want in this spring’s federal budget, it’s more government programs. “The only program I want is the one that lets me spend my money the way I deem to be the best,” says the […]
Starry Chet
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Chet Atkins playing “Vincent” by Don McLean.
We see how how Atkins took a well-known piece of music and made it more beautiful. If there is one word I would use to describe what I love about Atkins playing, it’s “restraint”; the sense that the song, the […]
In the beholder’s eye
Found this video very entertaining; The 30 Most Beautiful Football Goals (soccer) compiled by someone called Edward. In particular I like the way the number 1 goal is shown (spoiler ahead). It’s not the 1970 “Wonder goal” by Carlos Alberto, “for which he was recently awarded a trophy by football governing body Fifa for the […]
Citizen Dion
It matters that he joined France
Here we go with the déjà vu again. Shortly after Stéphane Dion won the federal Liberal leadership, Dec. 2, he faced a controversy over his French citizenship. Would he give it up? Canada went through an almost identical controversy just over a year ago, when Quebec journalist Michaelle Jean was […]
Can you be compelled by law to walk a picket line?
No. “I know of no law in any of the labour jurisdictions in Canada that forces people to walk a picket line,” says John Mortimer, president of the Canadian Labour Watch Association. “There’s no statute, but there are a lot of tools in [a union’s] arsenal.”
For instance, according to Mortimer, they apply peer pressure, in […]
How to be “something else entirely”
It’s not a common occurrence that a gorgeous hunk ties you up, robs the house you’re staying in, and kisses you breathless. Unless you’re Maggie Quinton, that is: savvy, sexy architect working on a remote island off the Florida panhandle. In Maggie’s case, the buff burglar keeps coming back in search of an item he […]
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