Don’t trust the label, at least when it comes to bottled beverages. The FDA has taken umbrage with certain national firms and their claims. In particular, green tea.
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The fences are in place. Toronto is prepared to emulate Quebec, come next weekend.
I’m not going to be there. The system is prepared; not one shout of protest will be heard by the “deciders”, and come Monday next we’ll have a few bad memories and not much else to show for the publicly funded party. Oh, there’s a paltry billion dollars that will have bought some toys and padded the overtime cheques of a large number of police officers; chump change.
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Perhaps I’ll have to accept that things are going well; on the only day of the season where my local camping supply store offers to absorb “both taxes”, I went for a wander and couldn’t think of anything I really wanted to buy.
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Show me the money. Isn’t that a Cruise line? Turns out that the banking industry is singing in harmony on that one, at least in Alberta.
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An egg; proof that nature has considered all possibilities. There’s a certain pleasure in eating a fried egg. Conversely, there’s a certain terror involved in collecting that egg from its rightful owner. I remember…
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How many people do you need to grow money? Curious question, perhaps, but after reading the latest tidbits from the agency that “takes care” of my pension fund, I’m in the need to know. Over the last few years, investment funds have not been very efficient at the only task on their to do list. Oddly enough, despite the large number of professionals that dedicate their days to the job at hand, the percentage of return has been in the negative percentage range.
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Does anyone else take offence from the wailing and gnashing of teeth going on in the driven world of Canadian companies that export? For the second time in recent history, our currency is running at very close to parity with the US dollar, and to hear them (can you avoid it?), the world is at an end because they don’t have as much “selling power” when it comes to cross-border sales. Suck it up! Why should I be forced to subsidize your bottom line, forever and ever amen?
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The story of my life, wherein I jump from one minor crisis to another. If it isn’t an oven that is trying to attract the fire department, or a garbage can that doesn’t empty properly because the huge whollops of foam rubber have expanded to fill available space, it’s something else. Each day brings another adventure, and I like it that way. I g uess.
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The provincial government announced their budget this afternoon. As I like to call it, the prediction of pain. A voice, with a litany. Read the rest of this entry »
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According to one reference on citations, the phrase “A penny spar’d is twice got” was recorded back in 1640. Ben Franklin paraphrased well: “A penny saved is a penny earned“. Somewhere along the way, I learned that if “I see a penny and pick it up, then all that day I’ll have good luck“. Combine the three, and my growing collection of maple leaf coinage makes good sense; common sense, if you’ll excuse the pun.
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