Category Archives: Business Behaviour
Health care?
In North America, we do not have health care systems; we have illness care systems, which provide conduits for pharmaceutical companies. You shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, if you hear a physician say: “the drugs won’t prevent cancer.” We appreciate … Continue reading
Financial institution games
Scenario #1. Have you paid a balance on a credit card or line of credit (that’s not provided by your financial institution) at your bank’s ATM, or with your electronic device on the due date and been dinged for interest? … Continue reading
Entitlement writ large
Entitlement is on full display in the SNC-Lavalin affair. Entitlement of a company. Entitlement of a prime minister’s office. LILLEY: Time to call in cops to probe SNC-Lavalin affair We appreciate your comments. Click here. Trumping Trudeau: How Donald … Continue reading
Supply management: better food quality?
We’re told that supply management is suppose to improve the quality of dairy, chicken and turkey products, table eggs, and broiler hatching eggs. Why then do Canadians still find blood spotted eggs and bloody, antibiotics-laced poultry on their plates? We … Continue reading
Amazon, Facebook, Google: too big?
On May 15, 1911, the US Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was an “unreasonable” monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act. It ordered Standard to break up into 34 independent companies. Mr. Dave Hodges and Dr. Michael Savage muse that … Continue reading
“Beware the ‘tion-factor'”
The writer in the link below compels us to be wary of the “tion-factor”: amalgamation, deinstitutionalization, privatization, globalization, suburbanization and intensification. Government and business love such words because when John and Jane Q. Citizen hear or read them they think: … Continue reading
Politician-purchasers, media-purchasers
Mr. Trump is a thorn in the side of the political and media circles who have been bought and paid for. Who are the politician-purchasers and media-purchasers in your locality? P.S. The sky has still not fallen in the UK. … Continue reading
A Bloody Mary with bloody chicken wings
It’s estimated that 1.25 billion (no, we’re not talking about gas plant cancellations) chicken wings will be consumed on Super Bowl Sunday in the United States. Is Canada good for, say, a quarter of a billion? Some or all of … Continue reading
Donation, or better business
Before your business makes a donation based on altruism, attention, a tax benefit (or a combination thereof) ask yourself these questions: Do we produce a product with safe ingredients and safe byproducts? Is our manufacturing process and business culture safe … Continue reading
