tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21337236147920671102011-12-26T15:25:05.031-07:00"I'm trying to free your mind. But I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it." -Morpheus@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-66499413051236037442011-05-15T21:53:00.002-06:002011-05-15T22:40:32.026-06:00

It's been a busy past few weeks at work and on the markets but I did manage to finish this month's Edmonton grocery price comparison... and surprise surprise this month..for the first time since I started this monthly comparison in February, Superstore has claimed the title for the cheapest grocery cart this month. What was more surprising this month is our cart for both Costco and Superstore

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-61514252934297239792011-04-19T19:04:00.007-06:002011-04-20T04:58:49.396-06:00

Well folks, here we go again! We knew food and groceries were going to go up and they did... inflation levels according to main stream media were as high as they were during the oil boom before the recession...and looking around the Costco this weekend, groceries were noticeably higher.In this month's comparison, I've only included a Costco vs. Superstore comparison but also added last month's

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-50234182380182355212011-04-07T19:44:00.016-06:002011-04-08T05:25:04.133-06:00

Finally caught my first episode of TLC's Extreme Couponing after hearing all the hoopla about the show.....I would have to say wow.... I'm still blown away by the show a day after....never did I expect that much could be saved using coupons... seriously I found myself standing yelling and cussing at the TV and my wife.. "WTF???" "Oh Come on!!" " There's no way!!" The above video shows a woman

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-83816885463205288802011-04-03T17:03:00.017-06:002011-04-19T22:09:00.590-06:00

It's already April... and April Fool's Day is behind us... Facebook walls were disappointingly quiet this year though 24 people wished me a happy birthday on Friday (yes...my birthday is in September for the 3 people who did remember) and most enjoyed my "perverted lamp" profile pic... And, I did enjoy another friend's AF's Day comments on moving to Vancouver for work, voting Liberal, loving

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-8224695931811252812011-04-01T11:42:00.002-06:002011-04-01T11:41:02.543-06:00

Yeah... the ol' "wife's pregnant again" and "RIP Jackie Chan" was getting old.... And for my Facebook friends: not that I'm disappointed that you all need facebook to tell ya when my real birthday is but did everyone forget today is April Fool's Day too?? What a sorry exhibition our Facebook walls were today....Where's all the good pranks??? Well...cat's outta the bag..and before noon as per

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-32115694474437444002011-03-20T21:12:00.006-06:002011-03-20T23:10:15.116-06:00

Whew! What a weekend for most hockey parents in Edmonton... in Canada for that matter... minor hockey playoffs continues.. I like to take these videos to track my own kids' progress in hockey and to save as mementos... but it makes it all worthwhile when that one kid comes up to me and says..."did you see that shot I blocked?" or "did you catch that goal I scored?" "can you put it on YouTube?"

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-11550557397333571972011-03-18T23:21:00.001-06:002011-03-19T02:16:12.440-06:00

So it has begun... economists and main stream media have been announcing since the New Year, food prices across the board will be increasing... from Loblaw's to Tim Horton's to George Weston; all have announced price increases due to world commodity and food prices increasing.... By next year, Canadians will be paying 5-7% more for their groceries. Don't know if anyone has noticed but prices

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-28730662862799559032011-03-18T12:35:00.006-06:002011-03-20T23:06:49.643-06:00

One simple phone call is all it took.... just got my telephone bill from Telus... credit of $25.90... wow how about that?Back in February, I was taken aback seeing how much our household monthly bills were... I looked into it further and had to make a few cutbacks on a few certain items we weren't using but was paying for anyways... I remembered a tip I got from a dude at Memory Express: he told

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Disclaimer: this commentary and related videos are entirely biased toward my eldest son's team, The NW348 Whitemud West Bulldogs....it was made for him and for his team mates' enjoyment and for entertainment purposes only. Comments made here is of the opinion of the author and any offense taken to anything written here is purely coincidental and unintentional and does not reflect the opinions or

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Here is CTV's grocery price comparison for March 2011 for Calgary stores... And yet, again , Calgary like Edmonton prices, has Superstore winning the lot with the lowest prices again. Expect much of the same prices on average for Edmonton; some items may be more expensive here and some in Calgary.... but on average very much the same results... Superstore= cheapest.CTV grocery price comparison

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-67001455750549696362011-03-14T18:58:00.008-06:002011-03-15T04:43:15.738-06:00

Minor Hockey Playoffs: Novice Williams Division: Game 1: NW330 WMW Warriors versus SW569 Confederation SharksEarly 8AM game; clocks move forward one hour ahead for daylight saving; so really like a 7AM game... what a way to start the playoffs for our Warriors... and the time change didn't help as our boys in darks togs fell behind 3-ZIP early in the first period... But our goalie Clark #4 made

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-1761978391641856232011-03-12T19:20:00.012-07:002011-03-14T05:01:17.530-06:00

The news of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan the last couple of days really puts things in perspective doesn't it? Prayers go out to the people of Japan and anyone here that has relatives or friends there now.... It makes us all realize how lucky we really are to be here on this side of the world. No matter how much you money make, how well you can save for retirement, or how well you can

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-56059730243669051662011-03-10T21:23:00.008-07:002011-03-19T06:49:44.272-06:00

With gas prices on the rise, I am determined to save more money.... Here are the deals for this weekend... all items and prices were taken from this weekend's weekly flyers... I want to take each store's best deals and see if it is really a good deal or not...Safeway: Top Sirloin $8.80/kg ($3.99/lb)- compared to Costco's regular pricing at $9.99 per kg, that's a great deal! Stock up on the

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-90728133722751171772011-03-08T21:09:00.018-07:002011-03-13T21:16:54.575-06:00

So in the last few weeks, I have attempted to take a closer look at our monthly household expenditures and see where our money was going in hopes of discovering where we can cut back.A few posts ago, I did a comparison of our monthly costs from 1997 and how much more we are paying now. I did find our monthly bills took a hike on average almost 300% to what we were paying in 1997; in fact, our

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-41805878483869988812011-03-06T16:49:00.015-07:002011-03-17T22:45:34.597-06:00

Following up on my query to save a million bucks by the time I retire, I ask do I really need that much and is it really enough by the time I retire? In a recent TD Canada Trust poll, 3/4 of the respondents said it was unlikely that they would be worth $1 million by the time they retire and one third believed the only way they would have a million by the time they retire is by winning the

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-88668473494653412212011-03-05T23:15:00.012-07:002011-03-08T04:40:50.987-07:00

A recent TD Canada Trust study released results of a poll of young Canadians aged 18-34 stating most believe their best shot at having a million dollars by the time they retire is by winning the lottery. TD on the other hand suggests the goal, though it may sound impossible at first, is very attainable if you have the time frame and compound interest on your side. TD suggests saving $100 per

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-69764722616260701302011-03-05T20:00:00.007-07:002011-03-11T20:45:10.787-07:00

It's that time of year again... tax season... every year at the end of February, Canadians become giddy as they receive their T4s in the mail... chatter of vacation plans, new electronic gadgets, and paying down debt has literally taken over peoples' conversations as of late... sure beats fretting over Libya and rising gas prices at the pump...Last weekend I got an early jump by downloading

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-20964827252076937552011-03-04T22:47:00.006-07:002011-03-07T19:51:57.096-07:00

On Feb. 21st, I made up a comparison of a typical grocery list I would have in my own shopping cart on any given weekend and compared prices across west Edmonton area stores. As Max's Satanove's Food basket has shown along with CTV's monthly Grocery comparison, Superstore week to week continues to beat out its competitors in total price per unit. In my comparison, I added Costco and Walmart to

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-74328250316609265582011-02-23T22:07:00.003-07:002011-02-23T22:15:24.168-07:00

That's right... Apple made it official by sending out their invitations to the media for their March 2nd event... iPad 2 will be introduced... for all of those who were shook out of their $AAPL shares in the last few trading days, it's a great time to get back in just above their 50SMA... see you at four hundy.

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In an earlier post, I mentioned that loyalty programs are are great way to stretch your budget via earning rewards on everyday purchases. In this post I'd like to touch upon those ones we would use for our weekly grocery shopping list in Edmonton stores; comparing them to see which offers the best return for our patronage and hard earned money.Superstore offers PC points via PC (President's

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-38976959819207890842011-02-21T01:36:00.031-07:002011-02-22T22:06:33.273-07:00

In the honour of the late Max Satanove, the man who wrote a weekly Edmonton Examiner column, "Max's Edmonton Food Basket", that compared grocery prices in the Edmonton area for 18 years, and in my quest to find more savings in our household monthly spending, I've created my own "Pricebook" that compares items that my family would have in our own shopping cart at any given time during the

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-31661218496128581942011-02-20T13:23:00.002-07:002011-02-20T13:31:19.263-07:00

As mentioned in an earlier post, I used to go more often to Superstore for my weekly groceries, but have found the Superstore nearest my house had gone down in quality of their products especially fresh produce and meats, customer service has always been the worst of the major grocery stores, and the discounts weren't as good as they used to be. But, after looking at the last flyer, there were

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-88992676144608549532011-02-20T13:02:00.004-07:002011-02-20T13:16:38.498-07:00

After writing my posts on our monthly expenses, many have asked "Why do I shop at Costco?" "You have that fee to pay.." "I can get a better deal elsewhere..." IMHO: Costco- a great balance of quality and price...lazy way to save? Perhaps. But, I've done the running around to find the best deals..Costco is still in the top 2 for savings. Add the Costco points from the Executive membership with

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-48474216287963228372011-02-19T19:13:00.012-07:002011-02-21T11:32:14.229-07:00

So in my last post, I found reviewing our monthly household basic expenses excluding groceries and gasoline, I was unable to really make a dent in saving more money unless I changed up the services and packages or completely eliminating the service altogether.I did manage to eke out a few dollars updating existing packages in cable and phone services just by cancelling some items we do not find

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-62902189228829018852011-02-19T11:35:00.013-07:002011-02-19T22:48:18.164-07:00

Why am I doing this? Personal finances can be torture on one's ego and mental health... as I have learnt over the years, the path to financial independence, one must learn all facets of money to be able to control it. Personal finances is not only focusing on investment but the other half of the equation: budgeting and saving. In fact, budget and savings should encompass most of the topic...

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-68562973116225696032011-02-18T22:04:00.008-07:002011-02-19T22:47:40.139-07:00

Only seven more days of RRSP season left... a time to assess our finances and plan for the upcoming year... Today, the Vanier Institute of the Family released a report indicating the Canadian household debt has hit the six- figure mark: an average at the end of 2010 of $100,879. Also, a debt to income ratio at a record 1.50! That means for every tax free dollar a Canadian household earns, they

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-41728160516539158672011-02-16T20:02:00.004-07:002011-02-16T21:23:51.044-07:00

So as my eldest son turned 10 years of age this past week, I figured it was time we started really planning ahead in terms of his education, etc. Over the past 10 years, all 3 kids have accumulated just over $4000 in birthday money, Chinese New Years gifts, and Christmas money... finally enough to maybe buy a GIC or a bond rather than let it sit in a savings account and earn next to nil.When the

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-72756547901977334012011-02-15T19:52:00.004-07:002011-02-15T20:12:19.092-07:00

Its already mid February and time to check up on the ol' stocks... $AAPL—still sticking with $AAPL- up over 10% since the start of the year. Ipads sales were incredible and news of the Verizon iPhone 4 selling out on initial pre-orders in less than 24 hours (close to a million) helps. With a P/E of 20 and , even at $360 per share, this is a cheap stock. Core holding- long. $RIMM- I like it and

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-17229611129607644902011-02-10T21:56:00.007-07:002011-02-13T14:13:47.883-07:00

In the last 2 weeks I have added 2 micro-cap stocks to the portfolio— $INT and $AAA... $INT- Intertainment Media...a conglomerate who owns ortsbo.com— a real-time translator for social media; $AAA- Allana Potash- a potash junior focused on exploring property in Ethiopia... I've never bought a real penny stock in years; In fact, I haven't owned anything under $10 in quite a while... small cap

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-12695023187089197672011-01-11T20:29:00.004-07:002011-01-11T21:11:35.180-07:00

Seven trading days into the new year and so far... I've added a few positions and taken some profits.. and outlook remains the same.....sticking with Apple is always a good idea.. $AAPL: from $329.57 on Jan 3 to $341.64 (+$12.07 +3.7%)... today Verizon announced it will now carry the iPhone on its CDMA network; which means Apple can potentially double its revenue stream for iPhones... Android

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-13687168938477695962011-01-03T16:36:00.000-07:002011-01-03T16:41:02.489-07:00

Keeping up with tradition of most financial bloggers at the start of the new year with some picks and themes for the new year: With the introduction of the iPad last year, Apple create created a whole new class of computing... stick with $AAPL... Android may overtake iOS in numbers this year but Apple makes a pile of cash and iPods and iPad and ATVs are never included in the numbers that AAPL

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-6369310621261488932011-01-01T18:02:00.000-07:002011-01-03T08:43:29.720-07:00

HELLOOOOO 2011...... Wow...I haven't posted anything since February of 2009 and it was just 3 little blurbs... and before that 2008.... so here goes...Suddenly it's 1/1/11!! Since then we've been through the worse economic downturn since the Great Depression and the introduction of the iPad!! In Canada, oil companies went into panic mode and did some cutbacks but real estate values took a

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-39559365556008866192009-02-16T01:09:00.000-07:002009-02-16T10:23:23.130-07:00

It's funny how the people with no or little money know exactly what they would do if they were rich; we dream about it every day, so we should know, just in case we do happen to stumble on a lottery win or a grand inheritance.  But it never holds true the other way around:  you never see the rich dreaming about being poor...or even thinking about what if they lost all their money.  Big difference

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-3287072212546502892009-02-15T23:51:00.000-07:002009-02-15T23:58:01.590-07:00

Quite a pessimistic view of the next 10 -20 years but Dent was the most optimistic in the last 20 years... What's scary is he has predicted most of these bubble economies since the 80s...

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-57070031884346058462008-12-24T00:54:00.000-07:002008-12-24T03:57:50.309-07:00

Upon having a recent discussion with my brother-in-law, an aspiring actor in Calgary as one of his many hobbies, I have found he presents an interesting point when discussing the limited roles available for oriental males: they are typecast into roles of either the nerdy math geek or the chop-sockey hero or the evil Fu Man Chu villain; all of which never did get the girl in the end.  Sure, they

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-36683610095896568342008-12-22T22:56:00.000-07:002008-12-23T01:55:39.967-07:00

Christmas is a wonderful time of year.  It gives us a chance to break away from the doom and gloom media coverage of the current global economic crisis and shut out the ongoing lies our Prime Minister has force-fed us with in the last month scrambling to save his ass from the inevitable no-confidence vote in the House of Commons.It is also a time to get excited for what the new year will bring:

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-113723020676626232008-12-21T21:19:00.000-07:002008-12-21T22:38:33.446-07:00

 Again is our precious oil industry is being hit by falling oil prices, soaring costs, and uncertainty in world markets.  Big Oil is putting on the brakes to strengthen their balance sheets and hang onto any cash to weather the economic crisis smothering the rest of the world presently.   In Alberta, oil is king:  Its overall economic health is dependent on oil.  All Albertans' livelihoods, like

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-84342103610184061052008-12-19T14:51:00.000-07:002008-12-19T16:07:48.925-07:00

Apple fans world-wide are up in arms reacting to Apple pulling out of Macworld ; an example seen here, by Tonya Engst of TidBits, another Mac Blogsite...Emotionally it is saddening as I will indeed miss the anticipation of the annual ritual of what Apple will release every January since 1985.  But, in retrospect, it may be a good thing as Apple products' releases won't be rushed just for the

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TripleHead2Go's  Digital Edition Graphics eXpansion module.. an external video card capable of hooking up 3 monitors..  $356.00 at MacMall online..Now that's what I'm talking about baby.....  handy little gadget especially if you need dual monitors off a Macbook pro or iMac all in one where it only comes with one mini DVi out slot... this picture here is unnecessary as the Mac pro has options for

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-1030149597784886632008-12-16T20:35:00.001-07:002008-12-16T20:59:16.398-07:00

Apple has announced today that Steve Jobs will not deliver the keynote speech at Macworld next month.  He has done so for the last 11 years.Rumors have it that there is concern for Steve Jobs' health as he appear gaunt and thin at the last product announcement.  Also, there is speculation Apple has no 'knock ya on your ass' product announcements this year like the iPhone, etc.  Apple states

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-66839175372091205552008-12-15T21:41:00.000-07:002008-12-16T20:33:15.689-07:00

It's 10 days before Christmas and the rumors are out all over the net guessing what Stevie J is going to show us at Macworld 2009 in January...  Other than the revamped Mac mini, 32GB iPhone, and Snow Leopard rumors, here are some of the more interesting ones I have run into as seen in MacLife's latest issue...The Apple "Tri-Book... multiple screen laptop ;  As Steve Jobs stated before: Apple

@crazyfasteddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15482417155455877182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133723614792067110.post-74245710618071294462008-12-15T21:34:00.000-07:002008-12-15T21:38:01.470-07:00

Includes OS fixes and stability and security enhancements... pretty minor..  what's new? click here

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Braving minus 30 degrees centigrade temperatures with windchill of up to -41*C, I ran out to do some pre-Christmas errands today and noticed again the massive line ups at various stores and malls for perhaps the 3rd straight weekend.  I understand it is the Christmas season, but, in -30*C weather, news that Canada has fallen into recession,  and amid a global financial crisis, I am intrigued to

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Remember these bad boys?? The Apple ][  was my first computers circa 1981/82 Junior High School Grade 7 computer literacy.  We learned BASIC which was built into the Apple]['s ROM; played cool games like PONG on it on a B&W screen monitor.  Prices were $1298 USD for the model with 4K of RAM and CPU MOS 6502, 1.oMHz; 6 colors maximum; dual external 143K floppy drives.  In Grade 8, the school

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In the 90's Apple shares were in the toilet; it had products sitting on stores' shelves collecting dust if any store would carry them at all; the company was losing hand over fist money; its marketshare was becoming quite obsolete; and  no other company would merge or even think about buying Apple outright.  Though it did have a small but loyal fanbase, a cult almost, which did believe in its

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A blog taken from renowned Canadian author and real estate guru Garth Turner's website..He tells it like it is.. I tend to like that..For most of this year, Canadians have been shielded from the truth about the economy. This should bother you. It should enrage you. It’s information you should have known.We were told the banks were the strongest in the world, and yet Ottawa found it necessary to

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I'm not a Michael Moore fan.  Never have been:  I find his films too bias toward crowd pleasing; and many of his facts twisted and unfounded just to swerve opinion and create shock-value.  But, in this Larry King episode, Michael actually says a lot of things I  have to agree with about the Detroit 3 bailout.  In fact, I  have many a Twitter about this issue where, to rescue the automakers and

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Economists are predicting Alberta is headed for a massive economic slowdown amid plummeting oil prices.  The province's vital energy sector is ratcheting down its exploration, drilling, and expansion as it faces sub $50US a barrel oil prices taking off from a record high of $147 less than 6 months earlier.  Billions of dollars in Oilsands Mega Projects are being scaled back or cancelled due to

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Apple:http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/a-long-term-technical-look-at-apple-aapl/Google:http://blog.afraidtotrade.com/a-technical-take-on-google-goog/

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CTV is deeming new Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff the "Great Grit Hope"CBCnews.ca claims he may be the "New Trudeau"..Today Ignatieff has made it clear that he has the balls to stand up to his own caucus and listen to Harper's budget first before making a decision to vote against it;  but publicly warned Harper that he "cannot run a minority Parliament with divisive, spiteful and

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Friday, it was announced that Canada had lost 70,600 jobs in November.  The most in any month since 1982.Today, the Bank of Canada lowered its overnight target rate a staggering 3/4 of a percentage to 1.5 percent, its lowest in 50 years, openly acknowledging Canada is in a recession. Hang on to your homes people, it's slowing down whether you like it or not.  After the last major Alberta Oil Boom

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Today Toronto MP Bob Rae must have read my blog or the Liberal Party caucus duct taped his mouth and slapped him upside the back of the head.  Rae officially bowed out of the Liberal leadership campaign after comments yesterday he was upset on how the interim leader would be chosen.  Rae immediately resolved to offer his "full and unqualified" support to Michael Ignatieff.In fact this move today,

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It's funny.. sometimes looking the eyes of an immigrant changes the entire perspective of all things....  especially money.Last year my father, a Chinese immigrated, retired small businessman, went for a holiday tour of the country from which he was born.  Upon his return, I asked him if he ever wanted to move back there and spend the rest of his retirement years there. He replies in his broken

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 In the past, Canadian Opposition leaders Jack Layton, Stephane Dion, and Gilles Duceppe rarely agreed on any issue other than Stephan Harper is all their political enemy.  On the chance Harper was arrogant enough to govern like he had a majority government; omitting any one of the Opposition party Leaders from working together to pass anything in the House of Commons, the three Opposition

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This weekend, my family and I went shopping for a few Christmas purchases and some necessities at Walmart, Best Buy, Toys R Us, and Costco. You would never think there was a global economic crisis occurring judging by the size of the line-ups at the cash registers.  I mean we're talking about people actually making big-ticket item purchases, such as big-screen plasma and LCD/ DLP TVs, pricey

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Okay here goes...  my first blog.  While I listen to Rod Phillips' play by play of the Oilers getting peppered by the San Jose Sharks, I'm setting up this blog but need to get a few things off my mind... So where do I start?  Politics.  The current debacle in Ottawa:  there hasn't been this kind of passion in Canadian politics since Pierre Trudeau flipped us the 'bird' in the 80's!  What the hell

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