When Canada’s new Finance Minister, Bill Morneau, checked the financial cupboards he found them empty. No one was surprised. Lower oil prices and higher costs related to a difficult economy decreased the federal bottom line by $6 billion, from a…Read More→
Call me crazy, but I don’t like partisan politics. In reality, I believe few Canadians are enamoured by the election-fueled ads that tear down people and parties. That behaviour flies in the face of how we were raised, right? Right!…Read More→
Canadian senator Mike Duffy couldn’t have imagined the recent twists and turns his life has taken. His political metamorphosis from butterfly to caterpillar could hardly have been more dramatic! What happened? And why? Until Duffy’s autobiography provides his version of…Read More→
Thanks to a precipitous drop in oil prices, Albertans are staring at a huge budget shortfall. Premier Jim Prentice provoked the masses when he recently suggested they “need only look in the mirror” for the lack of preparedness to the…Read More→
A recent report from Oxfam*, “Wealth: Having it all and wanting more,” paints a glaring contrast. The world’s richest 80 people doubled their money in the last five years. It projects that by 2016 the top one per cent of…Read More→
Thankfully baby Reese is doing well. But she is completely oblivious to the swirl of controversy over who should pay the million-dollar cost of her Hawaiian delivery. Jennifer Huculak-Kimmel was 24 weeks pregnant when she and her husband flew to…Read More→
At the risk of sounding alarmist, the latest technology is attempting to control our decision-making. Check out Apple’s latest iPhone software. It offers three word choices to speed up texting. At first glance, just three words may seem limiting, but…Read More→
It’s inevitable! Unless you die penniless, sooner or later someone else will spend your money. And they won’t be asking you for advice. If you’ve ever been the executor of an estate or assisted someone no longer able to manage…Read More→
Bank of England governor Mark Carney didn’t mince words. Capitalism is at risk of destroying itself! In his May 27 speech at the Conference on Inclusive Capitalism in London, he openly criticized the penchant for rewarding short-term performance while ignoring…Read More→
Ukraine is in crisis mode! The high stakes chess game keeps evolving, even as world powers offer rhetoric and ideologies from the sidelines. With the possible exception of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, no one seems to have a clue how to…Read More→