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Statistics don’t lie

Statistics don’t lie. Property sales are down. Not just the number of property sales, but the amount of money houses are selling for is down. Car sales are down by about half. There is talk that big companies like General Motors are on the verge of financial collapse....

The National Anthem

I grew up singing the national anthem every day in public school. We didn’t sing it in high school but we heard it every morning on a recording.   I am so old that when I first started school, we didn’t sing O Canada until I was in about grade four. Up until then we...

There is no homeless problem in Canada

This year Family Day in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario will be observed on February 16, two days after Valentine’s Day. I can think of no better time of the year to discuss the issue of homelessness. The heart of homelessness is, after all, love and the family we...

For the year ahead

There are enough people out there in the media and the blogosphere to tell us that the market is this and the market is that. For every doom and gloom piece there is another that says this is the time of opportunity.   Here are the facts. There is a market. There has...

Helpers

By Heino Molls   When I was a little kid, I used to go to the furniture shop where my dad worked on Saturdays. The people in the shop called me the store helper.   As I got a bit older I realized that they were just saying that to make me feel good about having to...