- Dec 17, 2018
- 5 min
COLOURBLINDNESS
I've been looking for a new pair of shoes. For more than a year. I decided I wanted to find some running shoes because none of the...
- May 12, 2017
- 8 min
NOT I
iTunes – that place billions of people acquire and consume their music, movies, podcasts, and such – is essentially unusable, as far as I...
- Mar 14, 2017
- 6 min
HOW TO FUND A WORKER CO-OP
We’ve spent two years getting a worker-owned co-op from conception to construction. The business is a for-profit bakery in the heart of...
- May 6, 2016
- 3 min
THIS YEAR AND LAST
And so it was, the year of their Lord, two-thousand-six-teen. And there was a Queen, with a large jaw, and a Duke, with a pale-face,...
- May 29, 2015
- 7 min
MOPS AND COFFEE or CAPITALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS
I thought the deal was that “privately owned productive enterprises, in a highly competitive marketplace, will produce ever-better...
- Oct 24, 2014
- 6 min
GETTING IN THE WAY
VPI inc. is a Canadian-owned “workforce management services company devoted to helping individuals and organizations better define and...
- Jun 12, 2014
- 2 min
EVIDENCE-BASED
In my lifetime corporate taxes have been slashed in half, from 36% down to 15%. (And we can thank Prime Ministers Mulroney, Chretien, and...
- Apr 2, 2013
- 3 min
WHAT A BUNCH OF WHEATGRASS
Last Sunday I walked in to my local grocery store where I was offered a sample of wheatgrass juice and some related promotional...
- Mar 26, 2013
- 6 min
FUEL
We seem to have bet the farm, the whole town and county too, on $100 per barrel oil. Why is that? Nobody thinks this is a terrible idea?...
- Mar 13, 2012
- 9 min
FUNDS
Recently I had some money I wanted to put away and, really, never think about again. I was convinced to talk to someone at my credit...