In many different contexts overexposure can lead to a great deal of trouble. Too much sunshine can…
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Suggestive power
Television viewers or movie watchers do not realize that subtly they are being bombarded by covert…
Industry tremors
Recently, when an automobile company announced that it was cancelling some of its advertising on…
A bad idea
A report was issued recently by a government-appointed group to assess the issue of foreign…
Zoomers trends
Nowadays we have started to categorize groups in new ways, such as baby boomers for those born…
Manipulation
Belief in conspiracies is nothing new. To this day many continue to assume that President John. F.…
Slumping wages are unlikely to help correct our poor local economy
Slumping wages now are a widespread phenomenon all across Canada, but workers in the public sector…
The biggest problem we face these days
Nowadays all too few are aware of the biggest problem for many people: they are lonely. When…
Greater use of judgement
Long ago, bands of English artisans, Luddites, rioted against mechanization and destroyed…
A dramatic and troubling tale of omens
Most in the financial industry have been preoccupied by the comments of the Bank of Canada and the…
The Boomerang Generation
The boomerang, a remarkable invention, returns thrown objects back to their originators. Hence, it…
A good corporate board is critical
Given the news recently, it is obvious that all too frequently corporations either accidentally, or…
People have strange ways of judging underlying quality
Strange as it seems, when buying clothes people likely will look at the designer’s label…
Retailers must learn to reconfigure themselves; and cater to less well off
For a change, the newly poor rather than the newly rich, represent a growing and huge market.…
Is small really beautiful
Several years ago a book entitled Small Is Beautiful written by E.F. Schumacher tried to make case…