Here’s an entertaining and very weird website, with a whole new take on the Iliad. I ran across it in a review, in New York Magazine, of a book called Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web, by one Sarah Boxer (review also linked below). http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/44480/ http://underodysseus.blogspot.com/2006_04_09_archive.html
Crunch, then squeeze
It sounds like an unpleasant exercise routine. But instead, it’s this move by some major British lenders, which sets new limits on mortgage borrowing in response to the crunch the banks themselves are facing: Borrowers with little or no equity in their homes face big increases in repayments when their existing deals end after Lloydscontinue reading
Jobs machine: running on fumes?
While other recent Canadian economic indicators have been weak, the February jobs numbers were strong. The fact that the figures didn’t mesh with economists’ expectations brought out the sarcasm: Craig Alexander, TD Bank: Clearly, one of two things will happen in the near term – either the Canadian economy is going to prove a lotcontinue reading
Dragging their feet
At 9 am yesterday, the Bank of Canada announced it was cutting the overnight rate by 50 basis points. Not one of the major banks announced it would adjust its prime rate until TD Bank broke the seal at 2:19 pm with an announcement that it would lower its prime rate. Announcements from the othercontinue reading
Homegrown
Now that we officially have signs of our own incipient economic slump, someone thought we needed a housing crash blog of our own. It’s a slow starter so far, but that could change: http://canadahousingcrash.blogspot.com/
Trust no one
It’s been 16 months since the great Hallowe’en caper of 2006, when Jim Flaherty announced just as kids began making their candy runs that the tax treatment of income trusts was changing immediately. The decision came amid fears that BCE and Telus would both convert into trusts, avoiding corporate tax as a result. (Of course,continue reading
best typo ever
This *almost* makes you wonder whether it was planted by a disgruntled soon-to-be-ex-employee… Spotted on the title page of an (otherwise perfectly good) kids’ book in the Corgi Pups series: “Series Reading Consultant: Prue Goodwin, Lecturer in Literacy and Children’s Books, Univeristy of Reading”
Yet again, upgrade time is upon us.
Wonkiness may ensue for the next ten or fifteen minutes. Edit – all done!
What’s wrong with HR
They’re idiots. A “recruitment leader” from IBM answers a question in today’s Globe and Mail (print edition only): “The reason to ask the question is to get a ballpark of where they are in terms of making it a win-win,” Ms. Puskas says.
The Battle of Other Milk Solids
Did you know that there is a pitched battle being waged over the composition of cheese? Since technological advances have made possible the creation of a whole new generation of milk products (for example, isolates or milk protein concentrates), which are not necessarily subject to tariff quotas and can therefore be imported freely into Canada,(2)continue reading