Just a few more comments on my column on Saturday challenging boomers. The truth is that we know desperation is a powerful motivator – in our personal lives, in our businesses and in our communities. If the roof is…
Continue ReadingSolving the Yankee Economic Crisis
How’s that for a whopper on a Saturday morning? I have been thinking about this and it is a classic Gordian Knot. The tax/spend balance is out of whack and there is very limited political will to seriously tackle the…
Continue ReadingThe baffling statistics around call centre employment
Once in a while you come across a statistic that is so mind boggling your first thought is that it must be an error in the data. I was look at the business support services sector employment data in New…
Continue ReadingAre we heading towards another recession?
It seemed to me the news yesterday that Canada’s GDP declined in the latest quarter was met with a yawn. One more quarter of negative growth and it is called a recession – or in this case a double dip…
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