A great deal of “information” can be described quite properly as “noise.”…
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Sacrificing long term projects
The year-end earnings season soon will be underway as our companies line up to parade their…
Good companies
Are big Canadian companies good citizens? That term encompasses many things, such as corporate…
Not a good bet
According to conventional wisdom, it is accepted as a good bet that shares on the stock market…
Becoming blurred
Even though several federal elections have revealed the split between the Conservatives’ and…
Affecting everyone
All shoppers at supermarkets certainly must notice the sharp rise in food prices. Then too,…
Coping with change
Clearly, North America is sliding into a business recession, but its dimensions now cannot be…
Climbing aboard
It may seem peculiar to many in the present era, but there is underway a revival of the railway…
Conestogo Dam was ready to handle 1958 spring thaw
Last week’s column carried the story of the construction of the Conestogo Dam up to the end…
An about-turn
There are two, best-known financial publications: in the United States, The Wall Street Journal and…
Where truth and fiction meet
I’ve done a lot of thinking about the concept of truth in fiction. After publishing When…
Robbers
I was sitting at my computer early this past Monday morning answering a few accumulated emails. The…
Four new churches were dedicated in early 1864
The period from roughly 1860 to 1875 marked a flurry of church construction in Wellington,…
1890 marriage breakup had city’s tongues wagging
Joe Brydges, a resident of Guelph in the 1880s, worked as an iron finisher in the foundries of the…
Step by step through a life of adventure
The arrival of each new year causes me to reminisce. I define my life in blocks of time, each…