Tag Archives: canada

Life is not Fair

Posted on 2016-08-01 by dgilbert

Humans have a strong sense of fair­ness. To be fair is to be in bal­ance with one’s fel­low humans. Like any met­ric involv­ing humans, how­ev­er, fair­ness suf­fers from hav­ing too much just as much as hav­ing too lit­tle. To lit­tle … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Canadians: Go Vote.

Posted on 2011-05-02 by dgilbert

This is a sim­ple, short post. If you’re a Cana­di­an: Go Vote! Sim­ply put, thou­sands have died this year for the right to vote.  It’s true that major par­ties prac­tice the pol­i­tics of divi­sion and destruc­tion.  I’ve post­ed my opin­ions on this.  … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Contempt Begins at Home, a Contemplation…

Posted on 2011-04-14 by dgilbert

I’ve been want­i­ng to fol­low up my last post regard­ing the elec­tion for some time.  I’ve been doing some heavy think­ing.  A Con­ser­v­a­tive Major­i­ty would seri­ous­ly injure this coun­try.  Their con­tempt for par­lia­ment, the par­lia­men­tary process and the coun­try in … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Crosby vs. Henderson: it’s not about the Hockey

Posted on 2011-02-09 by dgilbert

The radio is rem­i­nisc­ing about the last Olympics and Canada’s nation­al pride (hock­ey) this morn­ing. In par­tic­u­lar they’re dis­cussing “where were you” in regards to Cros­by’s goal… As if it has that scale of impor­tance to Cana­di­ans in gen­er­al (and … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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UBB in Canada: What next?

Posted on 2011-02-03 by dgilbert

I think a seg­ment of the Cana­di­an pop­u­la­tion would be hap­py if the whole UBB issue went qui­et­ly away.  Peo­ple who watch Bell and the CRTC, how­ev­er, know that this is not the case. For those who haven’t read or heard … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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CRTC : Usage Based Billing : Screw you!

Posted on 2011-01-11 by dgilbert

It’s final­ly mak­ing some news that major Inter­net Ser­vice providers (read Bell Cana­da and Rogers) in Cana­da are out to screw the con­sumer with new usage based billing. I have no prob­lem with usage based billing per se.  The inter­net … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Canada Post: Lack of Tracking Embarrasing

Posted on 2011-01-05 by dgilbert

I like new toys.  Who does­n’t.  Most couri­er ser­vices offer online track­ing to reduce the load on their call cen­ters, but it also adds val­ue.  I might not call sev­er­al times a day to watch the progress of my new … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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