The issue of wealth: money? time? freedom? privacy?
The Wealthy Barmaid may be an eye-catching title for an article which was posted to Yahoo’s website (http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/wealthy-barmaid-s-rrsp-is-2-income-properties.html)but a closer read of the article paints a less than rosy picture. The article is centered around the example of Melanie Bajrovic, a highly educated young woman More...
Fighting the fighting issue in hockey
The Governor General of Canada, David Johnston, has spoken out against fighting in hockey, saying that it doesn’t have a role in the game that he so loves as a Canadian. He underlines the skill aspect of the More...
Skinny is not healthy – Rants & Raves
The Globe and Mail Hot Button blog, a column designed merely to get attention by shocking and appalling audiences, making it the Fox News of the website, ran a headline yesterday stating that family members should More...
The War on Christmas – Rants & Raves
The Colbert Christmas special last year featured country star Toby Keith singing a song about the War on Christmas, where he denounces the change from Christmas to Holiday and tries to take back Christmas for the More...
Suffer the little children (The spoiled brats of Halloween)
If there was a doubt in your mind as to whether or not children these days are spoiled, let it be swiftly erased with a look at a letter a group of children from Oshawa wrote to one of their neighbours the day after More...
Great reads for November 11th – Veteran’s Day
The following is a list of books that I recommend for any person interested in reading more about the two world wars. It’s by no means exhaustive, and there are many other great reads out there, but these More...
Get Some Writers (Remaking ‘Dirty Dancing’ -really?)
Hollywood needs to read the memo which states that audiences are sick of remakes. Upon hearing that the classic coming of age love story Dirty Dancing is going to be remade, I immediately had the same reaction as More...
Keep it on (going topless in public)
A story about a woman who took her top off at a beer festival in Toronto is getting some surprising support from many commentators who have stated that the woman is well within her rights and that the sexualization More...
No Venting Allowed (It’s bad for you)
A study has found that venting to a friend while feeling stressed often makes you feel worse, rather than better. The study was conducted at the University of Kent in England and focused largely on those students More...
Nein Kiss! – (Germany: workplace kissing is terrorism)
A German etiquette group has called for an end to kissing in the workplace and has called the kiss greeting a form of ‘terrorism.’ It also claimed that the act of leaning into a person to kiss them on More...
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