Mayor of Glendale, host of the Super Bowl, doesn’t get a ticket to attend...
From the New York Times Jerry Weiers lives less than two miles from University of Phoenix Stadium, where the New England Patriots will play the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl on Sunday. Weiers also...
View ArticleRust Belt revival: Lessons for southwest Ontario from America’s industrial...
What can Ontario learn from the rival happening in America’s rust belt There has been less longing, in recent years, to be part of our own country’s version of a rust belt – the one that...
View ArticleWestgate Books
I’ve been having some fun at Westgate Books lately. A couple of weeks ago I wandered into the store looking for Saskatoon: A History in Photographs by Jeff O’Brien, Ruth Miller and William P....
View ArticleThere is no such thing as a skyscraper curse
But just in case, Saskatoon leaves Parcel Y undeveloped Until recently, however, there had been no formal analysis of the skyscraper curse. A new paper by Mr Barr, Bruce Mizrach and Kusum Mundra (all...
View ArticleIntroducing the Worst Airline in America
A business professor examines how bad the worst (and most profitable) airline in America really is. Criticism of his company’s predacious practices doesn’t faze Baldanza. “Predatory means selling at...
View ArticleDe Beers shuts Snap Lake diamond mine, 434 jobs eliminated
It’s not just oil and potash which have low commodity prices. The De Beers Group is shutting down its Snap Lake diamond mine in the Northwest Territories due to a softening market for the gemstone,...
View ArticleSome quick thoughts on the lunacy of retail and Black Friday in Canada
I had one last Christmas gift to purchase. As long time readers of the blog know, I do all of our Christmas shopping in the family. When Wendy’s depression was much worse, it used to stress her out...
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Inside Jetro, the Store Every New York Restaurant Owner Needs — and Truly...
From Grubstreet Fights. Errant forklifts. Bird shit. Why do people put up with this place? As McKee, who first went to this location when he was 19, puts it, you can get out reasonably well if you...
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Best Podcasts of 2016
The Atlantic finds the best podcasts of 2016 so you don’t have to.
View Article$350 million spent and nothing to show for it
From the National Post More than $350 million of taxpayer dollars in the past two decades — over a quarter billion dollars in the past decade alone — has been spent to clean up the abandoned Faro mine...
View ArticleMaking it in the city: Vienna ateliers
Monocle Films paid a visit to six of our favourite ateliers to discover that you can create jobs and wealth with downtown workshops
View ArticleNew delinquent U.S. car loans at 8-year peak: NY Fed survey
Bloomberg reports More Americans fell behind on their car loan payments in the fourth quarter, bringing auto delinquencies to their highest since the height of the financial crisis, Federal Reserve...
View ArticleMaking it in Jakarta
Indonesia’s bounteous resources make it the perfect place for entrepreneurs to set up camp. Monocle Magazine meet four enterprising Jakarta residents, who tell us how they are taking advantage of the...
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The Con that was the NHL in Glendale
Bruce Arthur writes a column every city councillor who dreams of an NHL team coming to their city needs to read. Or four years after the Glendale City Council, one of the many city councils in the...
View ArticleLiberals nearing decision on how to spend $800M earmarked for innovation
Governments picking winners and losers generally just results in lots of money being spent with no innovation An $800-million commitment central to the Trudeau government’s economic growth strategy is...
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Wall Street Has Found Its Next Big Short in U.S. Credit Market: The Mall
I don’t think Amazon is kill malls, better malls are killing crappy malls. Wall Street speculators are zeroing in on the next U.S. credit crisis: the mall. It’s no secret many mall complexes have been...
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Sears (in the U.S.) says there’s ‘substantial doubt’ it can stay in business
Sadly we have all seen this coming for years. Sears revealed “substantial doubt” about its ability to stay in business in an annual report filed late Tuesday. “Our historical operating results indicate...
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Salmon farming in crisis: ‘We are seeing a chemical arms race in the seas’
From the Guardian Every day, salmon farmers across the world walk into steel cages – in the seas off Scotland or Norway or Iceland – and throw in food. Lots of food; they must feed tens of thousands of...
View ArticleBaristas Reveal How They Really Feel When You Don’t Tip for Coffee
Okay, I generally tip well but at coffee shops, my tip (if I am alone or am just buying a coffee for myself and someone else) is 100%. Now I don’t get fancy coffees. I want a dark roast that is black...
View Article30 Days of Genius: Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake joins Chase Jarvis on 30 Days of Genius.
View ArticleAmazon struggles to make friends
From Bloomberg Amazon is taking over the world. And paradoxically that may hurt Amazon’s ability to take over the world. It’s been clear for a while that Amazon’s ambitions know few bounds. Sure,...
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The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners
From Bloomberg On a predictably gorgeous South Florida afternoon, Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason sat in his office overlooking the white-linen restaurants of this affluent seaside community and wondered...
View ArticleWhere Ships Go to Die, Workers Risk Everything
In Bangladesh, men desperate for work perform one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. They demolish huge ships in grueling conditions, braving disease, pollution, and the threat of being crushed or...
View ArticleHow a Japanese Pen Maker Anticipated the Writing-Tool Renaissance
In the face of the existential threat of email, Nakaya, based in Tokyo, doubled down on quality. Nakaya is the brainchild of Toshiya Nakata, grandson of Platinum Pen Co. founder Shunichi Nakata....
View Article100+ exceptional works of journalism from 2016
Each year, in one of my favorite media traditions, Conor Friedersdorf picks dozens of articles, essays, podcasts, and stories from the previous year “that stood the test of time”. Here’s his...
View ArticleLego to cut 1,400 jobs and ‘reset company’ after sales drop
Lego is cutting jobs after sales drop (how this is possible? Setss are big $$$ and Oliver plays Lego 23 hrs/day) The privately held Danish firm said Tuesday that it “now prepares to reset the company,”...
View ArticleHow Donald Trump Lied to Conceal His Moscow Business Partner
Perhaps this was his greatest deception of the 2016 campaign. While an informant for the bureau, Sater hooked up with a real estate development firm in New York City called Bayrock, and in the 2000s he...
View ArticleGE’s New CEO Vows Sweeping Change After ‘Unacceptable’ Report
Big changes ahead for GE. General Electric Co.’s new boss promised “sweeping change” as he delivered a brutal assessment of the 125-year-old manufacturer. Results for the latest quarter are “completely...
View ArticleIntrigue in the online mattress review world
For Fast Company, David Zax wrote about the Casper mattress company suing mattress-reviewing bloggers over their affiliate marketing relationships. As Casper flourished through 2014 and early 2015, I...
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