“Now with 50% less fat.” This ubiquitous claim at first glance seems quite straightforward.  But anyone with biology or nutrition background will quickly realize that it is anything but. Marketers often exploit our ignorance of a discipline to make claims that may be true but less than compelling to a critical thinker. But marketers are [...]

Last night I taught my daughter how Canada turns 142 years old today. Canada is a country of immigrants.  Saving the debate about the aboriginals and whichever standoff they are contemplating next, one out of six Canadians wasn’t born here.  Yet we should consider ourselves lucky to live here. My Mrs. Hudson’s companion, who immigrated [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an exposition regarding the value added by an MBA degree even with previous undergraduate business training. In my non-conformist countercultural other life as a raver, I encounter many bright cynical people who state, “Book learning is of little utility in the real world,” or “A degree is just [...]

In a largely me-too move by Toronto area Wal-Mart retailers, Wal-Mart Canada has announced as of June 1, 2009, it will begin to charge $0.05 per shopping bag required at the cash register–joining NoFrills, FoodBasics, and a handful of other, smaller, food retailers in the practise of charging for shopping bags to encourage “Green” alternatives. [...]

Everyone knows the way to make money on the stock market is, “Buy low, sell high.”  It seems patronizingly obvious.  Yet people repeatedly buy high, sell low as if they just stepped off the boat from bizarro world. It’s not usually the case that people forget that in order to end up with more money [...]