Category Archives: Business Behaviour
Popcorn Poppin’ Propaganda
The wacky world just got wackier; here’s some unwacky reality. Quick! Cancel Neflix, HBO, Crave, Crackle or whatever streaming service(s) you use. Cancel your Book of the Month subscription. All you need is a pair of rabbit ears for your … Continue reading
Safe insulin, food for all or a few?
If it’s unsafe, unhealthy it’s unsafe, unhealthy for everyone not just for those who can afford to pay extra for safe, healthy insulin, food and personal care products. Subpar ingredients or pesticide, herbicide and/or additive ladened ingredients are not frills. … Continue reading
Castigate cell carriers
Cell carriers constantly consternate cleverly concocting complicated, confusing, coiled (a sign they may not want to abandon coiled phone cords!) contacts (i.e., plans, agreements and schemes) catapulting clients ceaselessly into a circuitous cavern. Caveat emptor Canadians! N.B. That’s why cell … Continue reading
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
