Archive for 12/01/2011 - 01/01/2012

I like Paul Martin's dream

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Martin's dream - Winnipeg Free Press:


"The former Canadian Prime Minister, Paul Martin, is on a mission -- to spend the remainder of his life turning back decades of discrimination and finally offer a ray of hope to young aboriginals whose future lies in a better education."


What is happiness, what is misery

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Spend less, not make more:


"“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”"

2012 could be your year! Where you will be debt-free!
Are you working on it?


Climate change is real. What can we do to improve our world?

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Canadian church leader speaks to government leaders on climate - The Mennonite:


"“Whether individuals believe that climate change is human induced or not, the facts remain that

sea levels are rising,

deserts are expanding,

violent storms are becoming stronger and more frequent, and that

the poor, especially children, are paying the highest price,”

Willard Metzger speaking to Canadian Members of Parliament and Senators in Ottawa.

We will finally know exactly how much the airfare will be

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$99 seat sales take flight - Moneyville.ca:


"The Canadian government announced Friday it will bring in new regulations requiring all Canadian airlines to include clearly what the passenger will pay."

Germany and Nuclear power. No production, yes to importing it.

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Nuke-Free Germany Isn't Exactly Nuke-Free - Businessweek: "Germany says its future will be nuclear-free. For the present, though, it’s nuclear not-so-free, relying more than ever on electricity from atomic-powered neighbors. What’s more, the Germans have been turning off their reactors because they don’t want a Fukushima-style meltdown spewing radiation across their country. Yet the TemelĂ­n reactors, which are in good shape, are close enough to the border to rain down radiation on Germany should a serious accident occur."

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US Census: Half of U.S. poor or low income

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Census data: Half of U.S. poor or low income - CBS News:


"Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income.
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The body parts market in the world, with prices

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“Do we let blood brokers and child kidnappers ply their trade and write off the human fallout as just another cost of doing business?”

The rhetorical answer is no, of course, but the realistic answer is that the supply side will vanish only when demand does.

It’s up to potential customers—perhaps as much as law enforcement—to halt the growth of the red market’s illicit side.

Promising advances in cell science might soon make organ transplants obsolete, but until a breakthrough comes—and is cost-competitive—the red market will continue to thrive.

That’s just plain economics.

Canadian charities examined by @moneysensemag @sarah_efron

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The 2011 Charity 100 | MoneySense:


"MoneySense magazine has created Canada’s first grading system for the country’s top 100 charities. "

And what about your charity, would it get a good grade?

Three days already

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Stocks Fall Hard, But Volume Remains Below Average. Gold Stocks And Bullion Itself Slide. - Investors.com: "Stocks today sold off for a third straight session, with more than a handful of top-rated stocks falling in above-average volume."

Why it is important so share your ideas - Vint Cerf

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Internet Guru: Google Evangelist Vint Cerf Page 2 of 2 - Forbes.com:


"If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless."

Evangelical Christians learning from Mormons

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God's MBAs: Why Mormon Missions Produce Leaders - BusinessWeek:


"Many of the men who trained to be Mormon missionaries have gone on to become among the most distinguished persons in American business and civic life
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What can Evangelical Christians learn from Mormons? A lot!

How stable is the Chinese economy?

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Tom Keene Talks to Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach - BusinessWeek:


"The Premier of China, Wen Jiabao, has stated repeatedly that while the Chinese economy is strong on the surface, beneath the surface it is unstable and ultimately unsustainable. They want slower growth.
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Tim Tebow: God's Quarterback - Christian's moral failures

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People are tired and afraid of moral failure on Christians.

Tim Tebow: God's Quarterback - WSJ.com:

"Mr. Tebow may indeed turn out to be a hypocrite, like other high-profile Christians in recent memory.

Some of us might even want that to happen, because moral failure is something we understand. We know how to deal with disappointed expectations, to turn our songs of praise into condemnation.

What we are far less sure how to do is to take seriously a public figure's seemingly admirable character and professions of higher purpose.

We don't know how to trust goodness.

And who can blame us? We don't want to be fooled again."


Robin Cardozo's advice on working in the not-for-profiit sector

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Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Robin Cardozo is creating healthy communities - The Globe and Mail:

"I often talk to people who are mid-career in the corporate sector who are looking to move into the not-for-profit sector. Sometimes I find that they have the right motive but they don’t have a full appreciation of how complex the sector is.


My advice to them is two things:

No. 1, look for ways to leverage their professional skills to help them get into the not-for-profit sector.

No. 2, develop a long-term plan. If you develop a three- to five-year plan, and part of that plan would be to get on not-for-profit boards and working committees, getting experience of various aspects of the not-for-profit sector as a volunteer, that experience would help to leverage one into a paid position.
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Italian workers dont work really hard.

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Fiat Threatens to Quit Italy - Businessweek: "Fiat’s 22,000 factory workers in Italy assembled 650,000 cars in 2009, while the 6,100 employees at its plant in Tychy, Poland, built 600,000 vehicles. Without taking into account differences in models or working hours, the Italian workers each made 30 cars a year on average, compared with almost 100 in Poland. Auto workers in Italy earn €27.69 ($38.55) an hour, more than three times the €7.52 in Poland, according to data from German car industry group VDA."

9 Reasons Why Your Image Is Everything

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9 Reasons Why Your Image Is Everything: "The way you present yourself has a profound impact on your career. And it's not just your body language or how you dress, the Internet has presented folks with countless new ways to bolster their personal brand -- or completely ruin it."

Jim Rogers defends the Germans in the Euro issue. Good one!

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Tom Keene Talks to Investor Jim Rogers - BusinessWeek: "Why should a good, honest German taxpayer, a guy who saved his money, suddenly get a bill from the German government saying you have got to pay for some Greeks sitting on the beach drinking ouzo? That's absurd."