ARE YOU STILL INTO MULTI-TASKING?

Pay attention here for a minute. Turn off the TV, unplug the phone, stop stirring the soup, silence the computer and just read what’s next.
Remember just a few years ago when multi-tasking – doing several things at a time – was hailed a a breakthrough in efficiency.
Not any more. The experts now compare [...]

ARE YOU TIRED OF WAITING?

Did you know that a new survey reveals that 86 per cent of Canadians say they’ve given up on their purchases and walked out of a business after waiting too long for service.
Department stores are deemed the worst offenders with 78 per cent of customers say they’ve bailed out.
More than half have left a bank [...]

CAN PALIN HELP McCAIN?

Palin? Who he? Duh.
Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice to be vice-president, has served on a town council, as mayor of a city of 9,000 and has been serving as governor of Alaska for less than two years.
Today, on his 72nd birthday, John McCain put Sarah Palin, 44, a heart beat [...]

DID BARACK OBAMA SEAL THE DEAL?

In his acceptance speech last night, Barack Obama needed to do three things.
He needed to re-introduce himself to Americans; he needed to put flesh on his promises; and he needed to show he could take on John McCain.
Obama did all three. Magnificently.
Hillary Clinton used to say that Obama couldn’t close the sale. [...]

CAN CANADA HANG ONTO THE ARCTIC?

This week Prime Minister Stephen Harper is jetting around the North metaphorically planting Canada’s flag on Canada’s uttermost frontier. (The Harper is doing this just a few days before a federal election call illustrates how important the Arctic is to Canada.)
The Arctic issue has become all the more important because for only the [...]

DID HILLARY DELIVER?

Hillary Clinton had a mountain to climb last night. She had to convince millions of her disaffected followers that they should turn 360 degrees and support Barach Obama. How difficult was that? Well, one political commentator, when asked about the mood among Hillary’s supporters, described it as “submerged hate.”
That said, Hillary said [...]

CAN GAYS BE CELIBATE?

A most unusual story is now developing in England. It concerns the famous nineteenth century churchman, John Henry Newman, one of England’s greatest prose stylists (he wrote “Lead, Kindly :Light” and “The Dream of Gerontius)”. Newman was first an Anglican priest, then a Catholic cardinal.
What has caused an uproar in England in [...]

“HOW MANY HOUSES DO YOU OWN?”

When Republican nominee John McCain was asked that question, he blinked, stuttered, then mumbled he’d have to check with his staff for the answer.
Isn’t that a laugher. How many people do you know who don’t know how many houses they have. When millions of Americans are trying to stave off foreclosure on the [...]

SHOULD BEGGING BE BANNED?

Do you have beggars where you live? Do they bother you?
Officials in Rome are cracking down on beggars. But the head of the Vatican’s social justice office has critisized the crackdown. Cardinal Renato Martino told Vatican Radio that “It is poverty that has to be eliminated and not those who are [...]

CAN BIDEN HELP OBAMA?

Senator Joe Biden talks a lot. He also has a lot to say.
Which may be one reason Barack Obama chose the Deleware Senator to be his running mate. It’s clear in the light of this morning’s announcement that Tim Kane and Evan Bayh simply could not cut the mustard. [...]