Business

Small-minded Canadian employers keep immigrants down and out

February 12, 2012 Business

It’s that time again to roll out another piece about immigration and how immigrants fare in Canada. You’ll probably find me repeating a lot of things I’ve written over the years, but some things can’t be repeated often enough – especially when certain problems still exist, even though they should have been addressed and fixed [...]

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The self-employed need a fairer system

January 31, 2012 Business

With the number of the self-employed growing in Canada, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the government should be out to extract as much money from them as possible. The ones who are “their own boss” are often considered to be members of the club of the idle rich, so it seems alright to take more [...]

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Question for Robert Herjavec: Is ‘Canadian’ a dirty word?

January 28, 2012 Business

Multimillionaire Robert Herjavec is a Canadian success story. The son of Croatian immigrants, himself not born in Canada, made hundreds of million of dollars in the software business after arriving in Canada with just one suitcase, $20 and no English – according to his biography.

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Can RIM be saved?

January 24, 2012 Business

No matter how successful and rich Steve Jobs was, he never rested on his laurels. There was always the next innovation, the next new great consumer product to be developed. The same can’t be said of Bill Gates or the two now-ex CEOs of RIM, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie.

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Northern Gateway: Suzuki doesn’t get it.

January 14, 2012 Business

David Suzuki, who last time I checked isn’t even qualified to expound on such issues, is off on one of his wild (and demented?) tangents about the Northern Gateway pipeline. “Screw the environment. The pipeline will hurt our economy,” he rants.

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Kobo pulling a RIM

January 10, 2012 Business

It seems to be the typical Canadian story: a company creates a product that becomes fairly popular, but then starts making mistake after mistake, until people lose interest and go with a different product. This is what’s been happening with RIM, the maker of the Blackberry, and now the same virus of incompetence has struck [...]

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Northern Gateway: Canada is a sovereign country – time to teach the world a hard lesson!

January 10, 2012 Business

I don’t hold out much hope that the Keystone pipeline from Alberta to the US will ever be approved. President Barack Obama has already put it on ice once, to appease his liberal grassroots, and he will likely axe the whole thing in coming weeks or months. For Obama is by the man, of the [...]

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Unnecessary harassment of Netflix

January 5, 2012 Business

For weeks, it has been impossible to open any US news publication and not see a disparaging article or comment about Netflix. One gripe among US subscribers has been the separate, and increased, fee Netflix charges for DVDs delivered in the mail for those who don’t want to stream the content. Another criticism concerns the [...]

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Let’s be clear: many celebs are just airheads

January 5, 2012 Arts & Entertainment

On his TV show, Charles Adler once asked me why some public figures felt the need to appear “politically correct” when they didn’t really subscribe to that nonsense. To which I replied: Because many of those in the public limelight – politicians, actors, and even public servants like prosecutors – want to be liked, and [...]

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The truth about corporate taxes

January 4, 2012 Business

Canada’s finance minister Jim Flaherty wants Canada to become a 25-percent zone for corporate taxes. The federal rate is to be dropped to 15%, and the provinces are required to make the necessary cuts to their provincial rates. But Ontario, which is quickly becoming Canada’s own Greece, probably won’t have the room to follow through [...]

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