$9.99 per Litre of Gas?

“Cleans As You Drive”
Cleans what, your pocket book?

Today, some of the gas stations in Sarnia, Ontario made some adjustments to their signs that announce the price of gasoline – they added an extra digit holder on the left side…this will now enable these thieves to run the price of gas right up to almost [...]

My Tide is Now A Changin

“There are strange things done in the midnight sunBy the men who moil for gold”
“FREEDOM 55″
Nice ring to that eh? Catchy? You bet, but how many people actually realize this situation wherein a person can quit their day job and move on to something that is of an interest in their lives and not something [...]

Sex Sells Grey Cup

The “Old Grey Cup(s)”Gets a Makeover

Who would ever think that Pamela Anderson would usurp the Tragically Hip and the Guess Who?
In an effort to attract new (male) viewers to the Canadian football shows, the media folk have hired the lovely and sexy Pamela Anderson as the Grey Cup Parade’s official Marshall.
So, is it [...]

The War of Gangs and Guns

How many gun shots do we need to hear ring past our heads before a gun shot becomes one too many?
We hear gun shots killing school children on the streets of Toronto, we hear gun shots killing people on the steps of God’s Churches, and we hear the constant shots from drive-by-killers, but do we [...]

VOTE FOR A FATLESS SOCIETY?

…and just when we thought the FAT WARS were being won?

Would you join a gym and actually use the facility if you were given a tax incentive to do so? It appears our provincial Premier Dalton has outright rejected this suggestion from his own Ontario Health Promotion Minister who plans public hearings this January [...]

City of $arnia in Trouble?

The City of Sarnia Motions to Rid One Firehall For Cash

Councillor Kelch has motioned to sell one of Sarnia’s Firehalls in an attempt to get some desparately needed funding. As well, Sarnia Council discussed the aspect of selling off CN lands on the river for even more cash.
So, what is really going on in Sarnia?
To [...]

GOOD NEWS – Literally Speaking – "I’m Back"

The good news is that with the latest change in editors at the Sarnia Sun and Business Trends magazine, a home for my TECH TRENDS, a computer-related column. My column is going to continue being published each month in Business Trends magazine.My thanks goes out to Gord Bowes, Managing Editor, Chatham and Sarnia Sun papers [...]

Workers Slipped A Pernicious Package

Horrendous NewsFrom OshawaMASSIVE CUTS

We see 3900 plus jobs are going, going, and very likely, to be resurected in a 3rd. world country?

GM announced a 30,000 worker, International Layoff. But when you really do the actual math, what this company proposes to do to North America is displace close to 210,000 workers – putting these people [...]

Down With "The All New Martha"

Anyone who has been tagged with a small bag of pot, caught driving with just one too many beers under their belt, or any other minor infraction may find themselves in a tight knot when trying to enter from Canada to the USA. The American Customs Agency has very strict rules and regulations for immigrants [...]

Toronto Needs Angels – THE HELLS ANGELs

THE TIME HAS COME TO HIRE THE BEST
With almost 70 different shootings in the city of Toronto, we are becoming the Wild Wild West of North Amercia. In fact the killers in this city have no shame, morals, or even self care; yesterday, at a church funeral service for a 17 year old shooting victim, [...]

Corporate Bullies: Looks Good On Them

The Corporate Tide has Ebbed Out

From coast to coast, workers are slowly getting back a sense of justice in the workplace. Companies are now in a huge jam and they have to change their tactics in order to retain or even have a chance of getting a worker.
From Railways to Home Depots in Canada, hundreds [...]

The Cordless Wars

802.11(a,b,g) vs: 2.4GHzLET THE GAMES BEGIN…
Time To Cut The Cords?
With Xmas coming around the corner, people are contemplating “cutting the perverbial cord” and buying into wireless technology, be it, chordless phones or WiFi cordless computers, the ole advertising adage applies: BUYER BEWARE!!!.

Remember when: You and your “special one” used to fight over whose [...]

Where Are They Now?

Remember, just a few months ago, were you one of those who were constantly complaining about the heat?
You probably prayed for cooler weather!
Well you certainly had your prayers granted. This weather is vain-cutting stimuli.
For those of you who did complain about our lovely humidity, and are now finding you have nothing to complain about, try [...]

Vacations Are Becoming Dangerous Entities

After booking a vacation to the Dominican for 2006, we found out, by chance, from our family doctor that we need to have 3 injections – two before the trip and one upon arrival home.
I remember travelling to Africa and having to have a shot before we left, but now a shot for the Dominican? [...]

Down With "The All New Martha"

Anyone who has been tagged with a small bag of pot, caught driving with just one too many beers under their belt, or any other minor infraction may find themselves in a tight knot when trying to enter from Canada to the USA. The American Customs Agency has very strict rules and regulations for immigrants [...]

Road RAGE

In 1953 Arthur C. Clarke wrote: “Expedition to Earth”, a novel wherein it is stated that “rules were made to be broken” and ever since we have been using this to commit “white crimes” or innocents that are not [...]

ALPHA and OMEGA

“YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE”
Ever wonder who comes up with these sayings? So many of us use these dandies each and every day; for the most part, without thought, these blurbs come rumbling out in a sense of protesting our worldliness.
But how many of us really pay attention to these time-held-wonders of thought? Not too many…
Ever [...]

You Are Not Really Still Using Internet Destroyer Are You?

Internet Destroyer (explorer) is now passe.

Why would anyone profess or confess to using this terrible program. It is slow, unsafe, and highly restrictive. In fact, earlier this year Homeland Security, in the USA, ordered all and any computers that are of a government nature to STOP using Internet Explorer as a browser.
So this begs the [...]

Train Wrecks

Is this the coming norm in Canada?Federal Transport Minister, Jean Lapierre seems worried about rail safety in Canada.In fact, he states he is “concerned about CN’s overall safety performance and [has] written to senior officials at CN to express those concerns.”The Transport Minister gave a “clear” mandate to CN officials that “if corrective actions aren’t [...]

Fortunate One

“Who’ll stop the rain?”

Whenever I hear those words I want to stand up and protest something, I want to scream for change, I want to lay down and simply stop the atrocities, the heinousnesses of the world. Of course, it is quite possible that kids today, listening to this ole song, really think only of [...]