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I love computers. I really love them - and I owe that love to my uncle who bought the first computer I ever touched back in the mid 80s. I was fascinated by it and I still remember the moment my uncle told us that he bought one. It feels like yesterday,...

Telus (TSE:T) has announced 2 very important news today: 1) It's cutting 1,500 positions across Canada, and 2) It'll give a dividend of 44 cents a share early January (up about 5% from last quarter's dividend). Let me do some analysis...

A friend of mine running a profitable cigarette business in the United States called me on the phone and told me that he had bad reviews on Yelp, and that he called them and asked them to remove those reviews. Their answer was "Sure - but you'll have to...

August 19, 2015 | In: Opinion

The Education System Is Broken

"1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now. But times were different then, I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans." - From "Interview with a Vampire" Every couple of days I can't help...

Greece... This beautiful country on the Mediterranean is now the topic du jour, again, and again, and again... Will they stay in the Eurozone, will they leave? The same question has been asked for the past 5 years now. Yes, that's 5 years already. Each...

There are some companies who like to intimidate their clients. Here are few examples: - Every time I watch a Disney Movie, I am forced to watch a few minutes of what will happen to me if I ever decide to buy a pirated copy of the movie that I'm about...

Every now and then, you hear voices fighting to maintain Internet privacy. They want the Internet to remain private. Well, it's either that these guys know nothing about the Internet or they completely misinterpret the term Internet Privacy, because...

In case you haven't heard that already, Best Buy decided to close all FutureShop stores in Canada. 50% of the FutureShop stored are to be rebranded as Best Buy, while the rest are closed indefinitely. In my opinion, that move was very expected. Let me...

Back in 2008, the term "Too Big to Fail" was coined in the US - affirming that the US government will never let large organizations fail because of the potentially huge negative implications on the economy. Indeed - the US government helped many large...

I love Target - I said it before and I'll say it again. I was really saddened to see it go, and the fact that I'm pretty sure that Target's decision is irreversible and that Target will never return to Canada for the foreseeable future makes the whole...

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