Category Archives: Business Behaviour

Supply management: better food quality?

Posted on August 16, 2018 by admin

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 →

Posted in Business Behaviour, Business Standards, Government Behaviour | Tagged antibiotics-laced poultry, blood spotted eggs, bloody poultry, Canadians, chicken, dairy, eggs, food quality, supply management, turkey | Leave a comment

Has Google asked your permission?

Posted on July 30, 2018 by admin

Have you noticed that your uploaded photographs often show up on search engines, such as Google? Has a search engine ever cleared the appearance of your photo(s) on their site with you? We appreciate your comments. Click here. Trumping … Continue reading →

Posted in Business Behaviour, Business Standards | Tagged Google, permission, photographs, search engine, uploaded photographs | Leave a comment

Amazon, Facebook, Google: too big?

Posted on March 13, 2018 by admin

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 →

Posted in Business Behaviour | Tagged Amazon, Facebook, Google, Sherman Antitrust Act, Standard Oil, Too Big | Leave a comment

“Beware the ‘tion-factor'”

Posted on October 21, 2016 by admin

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 →

Posted in Business Behaviour, Government Behaviour, Intelligent Development | Tagged amalgamation, big box stores, deinstitutionalization, globalization, intensification, privatization, suburbanization, suburbia, tion-factor | Leave a comment

Politician-purchasers, media-purchasers

Posted on July 9, 2016 by admin

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 →

Posted in Business Behaviour, Government Behaviour, The Political Class | Tagged bought and paid for, media-purchasers, Mr. Trump, politician-purchasers, pure democracy, thorn in the side | Leave a comment

A Bloody Mary with bloody chicken wings

Posted on February 6, 2016 by admin

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 →

Posted in Business Behaviour, Business Standards | Tagged bloody chicken wings, Bloody Mary, poultry industry, Super Bowl, Super Bowl Sunday | Leave a comment

Donation, or better business

Posted on December 30, 2015 by admin

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 →

Posted in Business Behaviour | Tagged better business, business culture, Donation, fair price, fair price increase, manufacturing process, safe ingredients, service, warranted price increase | Leave a comment

“It’s the pollution, stupid”

Posted on December 9, 2015 by admin

It’s not about human-made climate change. (Robert and Leo, you can go back to acting now.) It’s about human-made pollution. It’s about waste in our air. It’s about sulfur oxides in our air. It’s about nitrogen oxides in our air. … Continue reading →

Posted in Business Behaviour, Business Standards, Government Behaviour | Tagged air, carbon monoxide, garbage, heavy metals, human-made pollution, industrial contaminants, nitrogen oxides, pesticides, petroleum hydrocarbons, plastics, pollution, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, raw sewage, sewage treatment contaminants, soil, solvents, sulfur oxides, urban runoff, waste, water | Leave a comment

Cap-and-trade: smoke-and-mirrors

Posted on November 28, 2015 by admin

The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris begins next week. To prime yourself for this shindig, read here how Mr. Mark Steyn, author of A Disgrace to the Profession, challenges the science behind the “hockey stick” graph. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Business Behaviour, Government Behaviour | Tagged "hockey stick" graph, A Disgrace to the Profession, cap and trade, Climategate, CO2 Emissions, Emissions Trading Scheme, Enron, ETS, GHG, global warming, Mark Steyn, smoke-and-mirrors, taxpayers, United Nations Climate Change Conference | Leave a comment

Brantford-Brant boundary babble, part 3

Posted on October 23, 2015 by admin

Brant candidates in the recent federal election were asked by The Expositor how their party, if elected, would grow the local economy. In the preamble, representatives from the Chamber of Commerce Brantford-Brant provided some background statements which inspired us to … Continue reading →

Posted in Business Behaviour, Intelligent Development | Tagged available development lands, Brant candidates, Brantford boundary babble, Brantford Brant boundary adjustment, Brantford's economy, building boom, chamber of commerce, for-profit business, misused properties, new assessment, underused properties, unused properties | Leave a comment