National Pride

Canada will be 145 years old on July 1st. (I know, it’s a week and a half away)   Everyone has weird ways of celebrating…this is my contribution…the new scheme for the blog that is.  It’ll look like this for the next week or so.  It’s good to switch things…

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Pluralism…To A Point

Source: http://www.globalmaritimes.com/calls%20to%20cut%20funding%20for%20moncton%20university%20that%20prohibits%20hiring%20of%20gays/6442649636/story.html MONCTON – Gay rights activists are demanding public funding be taken away from Moncton’s Crandall University. The institution has a policy not to hire people in homosexual relationships, something two groups say is a violation of human rights. Since 1996, the Christian university, formerly known as Atlantic Baptist…

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New Indy Car Impressive

Here I am sitting watching the Indy 500 (one of the only Indy races I watch all year) and the cars are so much better than last year.  The racing is closer…nobody can walk right out away from the field like in previous years…it’s not a blow out…which makes the…

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The Online Dating Scam

You see these ads everywhere on the side bars of websites…most often on Facebook…Single ladies looking for love…or something.  “you could get a date tonight!”  The internet knows far more about us than we would often like it to know.  Why should it care if we’re single or not?  It’s…

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Who Is “The Fly”?

A look back on the career of Paul Hewson or Bono (who just turned 52 years old today).  Happy Birthday dude! Anyway, here goes. ____________________Source; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono (pronounced /ˈbɒnoʊ/ BON-oh), is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian…

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Climbing The Corporate Ladder

Source: www.workopolis.ca Peter Harris, of Workopolis.ca, provided the following tips and techniques to The Pattie Lovett-Reid Show on successfully asking for a pay raise from your employer at a time when salaries are expected to increase by between 2.7 per cent in Ontario and Atlantic Canada in 2012, and a…

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