As a Government there are a ton of little things that can be done in an economy that don’t involve increases in taxation. Simply the threat of imposed legislation is usually enough to spur large corporations to actions. And while the immediate threat knee jerk reaction is to claim foul, the end results can be […]
Read More →One of the most back-asswards aspects of democratic systems is the legal system. Especially when dealing with issues related to intellectual property and copyright. Most everyone is familiar with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and how big media (record labels, film, and print) use this device in order to strong arm people who are simply […]
Read More →Okay – time to start calling a spade a spade. Currently the polls are showing the “Conservative Party of Canada” as being on track to win a majority government. This is would be incredibly bad news for Canada if it were to occur. Part of the problem I have is the ways and means by […]
Read More →When my management consulting career suddenly turned to providing services to the Government of Canada, I initially thought “wow – this is going to be incredible. An opportunity to see how the inner workings of Government actually happenâ€. What I didn’t realize at the time was exactly how different it would be from working in […]
Read More →The story so far . . . I’m checking my non-existent stocks (read: crash boom ba) due to some other good news I got this week and a funny thing happened on the way to the technical charts. One of them, Rentech, showed a ton of interest today. Not only that but apparently there is […]
Read More →It is weird that certain events seem to co-inside with each other to prove a point. This morning on QÂ Jian Ghomeshi was talking with Sri Lankan-British-American musician M.I.A. in part about censorship and the commercial viability of alternative artists to get records published in an internet age. As part of the conversation it was mentioned […]
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