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Just a quick note about the launch of my newest project: The Pension Report. You can get your free copy by filling out the form on the right.

You may ask why did I start this unusual project. …

Just a few days before the beginning of the Olympic Games the world suddenly discovered that the Chinese authorities will not allow uncensored internet access during the games. It is hardly a surprize for anyone with a little brain.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all the media was completely wrong …

Did it ever happen to you that you were at home the whole day, quietly writing something on your computer, no radio, no TV on… and then you go out to check the mailbox and there is a printed message paper stating that they tried to deliver a letter or …

I’ve been doing translation work and occasionally interpreting even before the internet was invented. Not to mention the blogs… And having done it in more countries on more continents I guess I am able to make a fair comparison regarding how much the interpreters (translators) are valued….

Yesterday, as it was the last day of February, certain tax documents were due for filing. Namely, the T4 summary and slips, if you were an employer. Actually, I am not, just a volunteer treasurer at a charitable organization… and somebody figured out in the last minute that I should …

It was all in the news today: CanWest Global paired up with Goldman Sachs Capital to buy Alliance Atlantis. The price tag is $2.3 billion. Those are numbers that most us just try to imagine without a real sense of the value.

Anyway, when reading about it there was one …

Maybe it was the title, maybe my earlier posts (and preoccupation) regarding Muslims — but I was really looking forward to this new Canadian TV show, the Little Mosque on the Prairie. This is a novelty, because I have to …

Almost a year ago I had to write about the global warming. Not beacuse I am so interested in it but because the media bombarded me with sensational news… (see the linked article).

Here is the newest on ABC News — Report: Big Money Confusing Public on Global …

I don’t know about you but around this time of every year, I mean just as the old one ends and the new year begins, I always get tired of two things: the ranking mania and the resolutions.

All the newspapers and magazines, TV-shows, even the blogs are full of top …

Just for the record: Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, doesn’t know me. And I don’t know him personally, either. The reason I am writing this post is because I watched his TV interview last night on CTV and I read this morning about his Christmas card in the Winnipeg Free Press. You might not like him or his party but you have to admit – he stands up for what he believes in.

There was a section of the interview about the Middle East. According to the transcript:

Harper said he’s prepared to help Palestinians through channels like non-governmental organizations [... and] “But I think all of the civilized world is agreed — and it’s not just Canada — we can’t deal with organizations whose principle and only objective is the eradication of the other side.”

Now I have been on both ends of humanitarian aid. First, while living under a Communist dictatorship we got food and medicine to be able to survive and, information. Yes, information, like books, magazine – to keep our sanity. I can’t be grateful enough for all that was done for us by unknown people and organizations. Everything was brought (read: smuggled) and distributed to individuals, churches, nothing through the government. Reminder: for me, a dictatorship is just that, regardless of its colour: be it on the left or right or established by religious fanatics!