Wow! What a weekend – a better time could not be had! It all started out at my 80th birthday…
Columns
Disappointing ‘capex’
For an economy to prosper, companies must spend money on new plants and equipment – capital…
Fighting terrorism
Canada is not immune from terrorism. The week of Oct. 19, Parliament was attacked and two…
Policy makers’ mess
A recent book by Martin Wolf, an esteemed commentator published in the London (England) Times,…
Vacuums, X-rays, Melville church: More historical briefs for 2014
Last week’s column featured a few odds and ends that have been accumulating in my files. Here…
Stop the press
Not often does stop-the-press news cross my desk, but when it comes but once in a hundred years, I…
Elliott best choice as leader
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party is engaged in a leadership race which is getting more…
SOAR
I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts there are fewer than 10 per cent of readers, of the over…
Teenage comedic genius
By the end of this week, the Carpenter and I will officially be the parents of two teenagers. The…
Poetry of time
The foremost side of the handout card at the sign-in podium of the Smith Funeral Home, 1576 London…
Going nowhere
While this column is about Canada’s Business, what goes on south of the border is of…
The Reform Act
On June 23, the Reform Act, 2014 was granted Royal Assent by Governor General David Johnston, after…
Crazy and hazy
It was one of those hot and windless mid-August mornings. Not a bird in sight; not even the…
The biggest worry
It is difficult to determine the biggest threat to our economy at this time. There are so…
History begins at home
It’s amazing what Canadians take for granted, and what it takes to make us stop. Remembrance…