Saturday, January 31, 2015

Toronto is the best city in the world (apparently)

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Another Economist report just released is The Economist Intelligence Unit's Safe Cities Index 2015 , which looks at 50 major cities acro...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Let there be light

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The Economist has produced an excellent Special Report called Let There Be Light in this week's edition on the present and the future o...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Unexpected rate cut no coincidence

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Our Glorious Leader, Emperor Harper, has just received what must be very a very welcome boost courtesy of the Bank of Canada's unexpecte...

Nomad

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Recently, I have been reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book Nomad , the follow-up to her ground-breaking and controversial best-seller  Infidel...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Am I in the Top 1%? Apparently so...

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The BBC recently produced a video to mark the upcoming landmark when the global top 1% will own more wealth than the other 99% combined, an...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015

A bunch of current topics, large and small

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A whole heap of articles, reports and letters on different subjects in today's Globe has inspired me to write a few lines on a variety ...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Je ne suis pas (nécessairement) Charlie

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I suppose I should publish a few thoughts about the Charlie Hebdo massacre, everyone else seems to have done so. Obviously, there is no jus...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

A few more random observations on driving in the UK

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I ended up driving quite a lot during our Christmas trip to England and, in addition to the tribulations of driving in snow (see below for m...