I recently flew to the US for business and upon my return to Canada, I realized that there is a huge difference between airports in the two countries. I am not talking about the security checks that are very similar in both countries and in fact, I

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My goal is to create passive income. Its passive income, not networth that creates financial freedom. If you have $3,000/month through various passive income streams, you’ve got your basic food and shelter taken care of and you won’t starve if you l

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The Arcade Fire have quietly become one of the most vital bands in current music, spearheading the Canadian Invasion. In one of these quiet moments, I believe they watched Eddie and the Cruisers in the comfort of their tour bus. The verse of "Keep the Car Running" is very similar to the verse of "On the Darkside" by Eddie and the Cruise

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I want to hit 1000 comments before January 1, 2008, and I’m willing to pay money to see it happen. I’ll offer $50 to the person who posts the 1000th comment (or the person immediately after if I happen to be that person). I’m also going to offer an extra $25 to the person that leaves the best comment on any post between now and January 1.

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Michael Buble, the handsome Canadian singer was branded by his mistress, Tiffany Bromley to be a cheater and is even into threesomes. This thing is not new for celebrities, there are even ugly and pathetic celebrities who have affairs left and right, what do you expect from someone like Michael who is young, attractive, famous, and rich? I ju

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Introducing Canadian entrepreneurs to a little known Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) program that allows them to treat their employee health and dental costs as legitimate business expenses without a corresponding taxable benefit to the employee.

This program is especially effective for "mom and pop" operations that are currently paying thei

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Merry Christmas, I can already hear the bells ringing...The world's gone crazy about the iPhone, including myself. Unfortunately it's quite an elusive and expensive little gadget but did you know that you can get 1 Dollar iPhones in Canada? Seriously, this isn't a hoax, scam or anything!

Fact: In Canada you can get iPhones for one Canad

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Vancouver - A passenger died in Vancouver airport after police tried to calm him by using a stun gun, it was reported on Monday. He was stunned twice by an electric shock from a Taser before he passed out and died in the arrivals area shortly afterwards, Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail reported. The man, yet to be identified, had pounded on

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t’s been about a week now since the Canadian version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was put on hiatus by Industry Minister Jim Prentice. Some have speculated that the decision was made due to the rather large public outcry that surfaced, before the mainstream media even started offering coverage of the whole thing.

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Tegan and Sara, my favorite lesbian identical twin sister Canadian band, came to the Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis on November 30th, 2007, in support of their phenomenal record The Con. The album is on my best of 2007 list. They played a nice mix of this record and their older material.
Overall, the show was very good, with some minor dis

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The history of my love affair with computers began in 1975 when I joined Canadian Pacific Airlines as a reservation agent. When I first started with the airlines there was no computer system. We took airline reservations on cards and then put them on what looked like a mobile washing line. It then moved round a large room to the front where i

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I posted a comment in blog discussion on a major Canadian site. The subject was: "Has Blu-ray won the HD format war?" I replied that I just made a post called: "25 Top Grossing Movies Of 2007 With Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Numbers". That was the day before Warner decided to go with Blu-Ray. That has almost 1000 views so far. During that discussion,

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Maple Syrup starts off as sap - running up inside maple trees in the spring. Actually to make lots of great Maple Syrup - you want the sap to run up and down, up and down, and up and down. So now it’s finally spring - we’re finally in the Syrup!
To get sap to run properly - nature has to help out with warm days and cold nights. At night, the

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When BloggingZoom got hacked a few days ago, I had a high in traffic day. I had left related comments to posts in a big Canadian blog with links to my blog. This also had the bonus of having more clicks than normal on Adsense ads. :D The most seen was the funny video post about the downfall of HD-DVD. So, yesterday, I wrote th

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It is Black History Month and I was looking for information about a Canadian that I could share and found the storteller site and there was an entry about Viola Desmond a Canadian from Nova Scotia. Canadains rarely get information about their own country and this story told me about someone I had never encountered before.

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