larry borsato

For all of my American friends, when Canada is used as a shining example of the wonder of free, universal, socialized healthcare, please note that the facts are somewhat different. My wife mentioned a story to me about a couple whose baby was born prematurely in Hamilton, Canada. With no NICU beds anywhere in the [...]

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Malcolm Gladwell gives Chris Anderson a smackdown in the New Yorker over Chris’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price. This example caught my eye: So how does YouTube bring in revenue? Well, it tries to sell advertisements alongside its videos. The problem is that the videos attracted by psychological Free—pirated material, cat [...]

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I witnessed a spectacular dose of small-mindedness via Twitter drive-by this morning. Someone (the name isn’t important) Twittered: "seems like the Kitchener-Waterloo twitterers & bloggers are different species – or have I just not discovered the cross-over people?" When asked what that meant, she clarified: "People who attend real life social networking activities locally here [...]

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This is the president who vowed to "restore science to its rightful place": "At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air that we breathe." These sound bites play wonderfully on the [...]

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… comes in this post from Girl On The Right. I’d love to quote the whole thing but instead I’ll just urge you to read it. My favorite line? “free” “health” “care” is actually 3 lies for the price of 1. Technorati: life advice Powered by Bleezer

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Not only can I not buy Ralph Lauren Polo shirts or a decent hot sauce, I also can’t buy current technology in Canada. Generally that’s pretty well hidden, but suddenly Macleans magazine seems to have noticed: But here’s the thing: you can’t have one. When the Kindle DX goes on sale this summer (for a [...]

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A group of former Nortel executives want to buy the bankrupt company. There’s just one catch: Under the group’s plan, Nortel would concentrate on building a high-speed broadband network across Canada after divesting a third of its operations, the CBC report states. It also says politicians have been "lukewarm" to the proposal. Three members of [...]

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