While I’m still on my Hamilton kick (‘It’s 905!’/’But so authentic!’), I’m embarrassed to say that I missed this entirely: MEC’s planned Burlington store, which I’m sure there’s a good business case for, is supposed to be a model of environmental design … “Sustainability is a driving force at MEC, and the Burlington store willcontinue reading
Dollar daze*
Woo-hoo! Parity at last! Where were you in 1976? Etc. Except: we live in Ontario consumer prices aren’t budging plus, don’t know if you’d noticed, but housing and food prices, which represent a sizeable part of the average household budget, are rising. Core inflation is actually a bit softer — you know, the type that doesn’t includecontinue reading
Totally Toronto
– is CBC Radio 1’s slogan at the moment, unless they’ve taken it off the air out of embarrassment – it’s hard to miss. One the one hand, this is just truth in advertising – CBC Toronto, which serves all of south-central Ontario, at least in principle, has always been indifferent to the large partscontinue reading
Good news for newspaper readers
…and another failure in the long list of failed online newspaper ventures. From business headlines on CBS Marketwatch: 7:24[NYT] New York Times: Free access to Web content to start Wed. 7:23[NYT] New York Times to open up free access to online content 7:22[NYT] New York Times ends TimesSelect online service Prepare for more liberal sprinklingscontinue reading
I hope this involves some papier mache
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Frustrated by one of the worst situations in air travel — passengers kept waiting in grounded, crowded aircraft for as much as 11 hours at a time — a consumer group is planning to stage a recreation of an extreme tarmac delay in the nation’s capital next week. p> The expectedcontinue reading
The evil that is Comic Sans
I’d be perfectly happy to never see it again, and apparently I’m not the only one. There’s a whole movement advocating its abolition. I did not know that it originated with Microsoft Bob, but that explains a lot, doesn’t it?
Change in tone
Months of smug, rah-rah, our market’s different from every other area with a housing boom in the world coverage are followed inevitably by: Scotiabank: [T]here is growing evidence of overvaluation in home prices in some parts of the country — a precursor to a period of softening conditions… the further domestic home prices climb above underlyingcontinue reading
ISO a media criticism category
I’m sure whoever wrote this felt very clever, but it’s just unprofessional, in my view. Or maybe I’m just annoyed because I felt stupid that I couldn’t guess what “the obvious” was in this headline on globeandmail.com: Bush to announce the obvious Will endorse recommendation this week from his top commander in Iraq to bringcontinue reading
Three takes
What’s more compelling for a newspaper reader, like me, who checks in to see what the latest news is on her favourite papers’ websites: Would it be: The Globe’s 12:28 headline story, “Canada’s changing family”, topped by a photo of a gay couple waving what is presumably a marriage license, or The Post’s non-time-stamped CanWestcontinue reading
Snap, crackle, and possibly pop
Finally, an article on real estate appears in the Canadian media that is not written by someone using the Canadian Real Estate Association talking points. Saturday’s Financial Post has a comment from a Lakehead University economics prof, who has done some basic analysis of prices to annual rental value to come up with a price-to-earningscontinue reading