“But to target Canada? I wouldn’t personally poke the eye of my best friend. Diplomacy doesn’t have to become insulting. Negotiations are only cranky if you make them cranky.”— Robert Restaino Robert Restaino is the… Read More
“A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.”— Henry Ford Henry Ford’s well-known observation has a decent pun in it, as well as a sharp insight into human… Read More
Earlier this week, I put the first line of clothes of the year out on the line. Now it’s spring, I thought to myself. I made a quick post on social media, and hours later,… Read More
Imagine earning supper money from playing a game that you’d play anyway … tempting, no? That in a nutshell is the pitch from companies like Freecash, which work in an area of the online economy… Read More
About a dozen years ago, I went out one evening to buy a simple counter-top radio — and I wound up picking up a lesson in changing consumer tastes. The anecdote has been on my… Read More
It sounds benign, but a “correction” in the finance world is an unpleasant word indeed. And it’s right on our doorstep. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 444 points, landing at 45,577…. Read More
UPDATE | In this post from Friday morning, I noted the PUB uses interruptions to make adjustments outside of the scheduled weekly setting … and it did. Early on Saturday morning, prices surged another 12.4… Read More
A detail in the latest City of St. John’s economic snapshot caught my eye — and it speaks to an ongoing rift between what people are feeling and the bigger economic picture. The city’s report,… Read More
If there’s an industry that could use a proverbial drink, it’s the booze industry in the United States. Consider this. American wine and beer exports fell in 2025, and fell hard — a drop of… Read More
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”– Laurence J. Peter Born in Vancouver, Peter found fame in the United States, and became well enough known that… Read More
I wonder if there are many shared smiles between John Risley and Brendan Paddick these days, as the two of them deal with separate court actions — one in which they are pitted against each… Read More
The photo above is of my niece Beth, and it shows the moment when she wrapped herself in the quilt that Martha made for her. She came over during the holidays for a fun evening,… Read More
The taproom at Quidi Vidi Brewery in St. John’s has often been a hopping (no pun intended, honest) place most of the times I’ve been there, but it’s quite quiet these days. That’s because the… Read More
There’s been such a dark cloud over billionaire Jeff Bezos and his handling of the Washington Post, and for such a long time, that it’s perhaps difficult to remember there was a much happier relationship… Read More
I got a good chuckle from a post on Facebook this morning. It imagined what the popular TV series Traitors might look like if everyone in the castle was a fictional character. Some months ago… Read More