I was going to write something snarky earlier today about how Lululemon was taking its approach to countering reports that its clothing might not carry the health benefits advertised from four-year-olds: Mr. Meers said that to create the special fibre for Lululemon’s T-shirts, SeaCell is combined with a cellulose and spun into special SeaCell fibre.continue reading
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Lu-lu land
Yoga clothes maker Lululemon’s shares swooned yesterday after independent tests called into question the claims it makes about one of its products: According to product tags, one of its lines of shirts, called VitaSea, is made with a fabric that is 24 per cent seaweed. The company says the fabric releases “marine amino acids, mineralscontinue reading
No wooden nickels here
Toronto City Council is still admirably focused on carving out savings and weeding out inefficiencies where they can. Councillor Howard Moscoe, for example, sees an opportunity in enforcing the superiority of the mighty loonie: “There’s a glut of U.S. coins being dumped in the economy,” Moscoe (Ward 15, Eglinton-Lawrence) said yesterday. “The city’s going tocontinue reading
License to kill
After reading the Star’s story on people caught driving more than 50 kilometres over the speed limit, who are shocked to find they face actual consequences: “I certainly would not have been doing 50 over if I knew this was going to happen to me,” “Look, I was speeding,” […]”I expected a ticket, and thencontinue reading
Right back where we started from
Economic and Fiscal Update November, 2005: – Decrease lowest tax rate from 16% to 15%, retroactive to January 1, 2005 – Increase basic personal amount over 3 years to reach $10,000 in 2009 Economic and Fiscal Update October, 2007: – Decrease lowest tax rate to 15% from 15.5%, retroactive to January 1, 2007 – Increasecontinue reading
Tiny bubbles
– Am I the only person who is baffled by the parity protests? What is it that makes Joe 2-4 think that Canadian prices should be identical to those in another country, with a different size, different transportation costs, and different labour laws? And why is Flaherty grandstanding on this issue, pressuring retailers, who havecontinue reading
Is the blond hegemony crumbling?
As Toronto has grown, the share of Toronto-born-and-bred residents of the city is ever smaller. As part of that diminishing minority, I’ve noticed that many people who move to the city later in life are blissfully ignorant of the significance of being from one part of the city or another. Overall, this is a goodcontinue reading
Well, that’ll piss off the generals
Prime Minister Moves to Grant Honourary Canadian Citizenship to Leader of Democracy Movement in Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi Interesting move. I approve (since I’m sure Stephen Harper’s decision-making hinges on my approval…). Note the language, too: in news articles and press releases including this one, I’ve noticed an almost total switch from “Myanmar (alsocontinue reading
May the years stretch ever longer in a Better Canada
It’s amazing what Strong Leadership can do. For example, it can apparently extend the number of days in a year in a previously unheard-of fashion: “During the last session our crime bills were held up by Opposition-controlled House committees or the Liberal majority in the Senate for a total of 976 days,” Prime Minister Harpercontinue reading
Canada’s never-to-be majority government strikes again
Still not sure what the Harperites are calling themselves since they decided that, with a fresh session of parliament, it was time to drop the “new”. Given this photo, though, I’m confident my own personal name for them is correct. Here they all are, having a good laugh at Stephane Dion, his slightly less torturedcontinue reading