TORONTO — A new Toronto bylaw, passed Friday, could pave the way for a $1,500 per person tax to pay for Transit. Few people even noticed.
A small piece in Saturday’s Globe and Mail newspaper caught my eye. It didn’t make it into the Globe’s online edition, but the National Post covers it […]
TORONTO — Cable TV customers of Canada’s Rogers Communications Inc. will now be able to access their paid TV content through the Rogers web site and view it online. Rogers announced the new online service that further merges the TV and Internet worlds this week, and Coffee learned about it from ITBusiness.ca.
As an update to […]
TORONTO — I’m back in Toronto and am interrupting my normal program of venting and unsolicited prosthelytizing to bring you a blatant, but entirely worthy, non-commercial advertisement.
I have been involved with Youth Challenge International for a number of years and believe it’s an outstanding organization that does two exceptionally valuable things very well:
1. It sends […]
BRUSSELS – I woke up early today and, eschewing the 30 Euro buffet breakfast proffered in the hotel, headed out onto the streets of Brussels to find a coffee and croissant. Or, even, just a coffee. Alas, I was stymied. Not a coffee or pastry to be found today. All the shops on the high […]
CAIRO — OK, so it’s been a long time since I posted. Many reasons. No excuses. But, to ease back into it, I thought I’d share some of my favorite stupid subject lines from the 1,263 unread spam emails in my junk folder.
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Wow. If I was in […]
CAIRO — Having spent the past year and a bit working with the UN Development Program to design and implement a training program for Afghanistan’s Border Police service on the northern frontier with Tajikistan, I well understand the challenges faced by the public security sector in this impoverished and embattled land. There are innumerable threats […]
Waiting… some more… in the KLM lounge at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Cairo flight is delayed another three hours… let’s see… how many drinks is that?
AMSTERDAM I left Toronto Monday evening about 9 PM on a KLM flight to Amsterdam… was supposed to leave at 6:05 pm but, well, we didn’t. At first, we couldn’t […]
TORONTO — Yesterday, I commented on the Pooping Puffin conundrum regarding an animation on a Conservative Party of Canada website. Today, I write to confess that I’ve explored the Notaleader.ca website and found it, well… enormously fun. Whether you’re a Conservative Party supporter, a Liberal Party supporter, or support someone else or no one at all — […]
DUSHANBE — Okay. So, I admit it where others may be too ashamed. When I’m bored, lonely and frustrated… and without amiable company. I have been known to Google myself in the privacy of my own home. Okay, okay. Sometimes in public places too.
What I’ve come to realize, since I began blogging, is the vast […]
TORONTO — In a somewhat unusual PR move, the International Association of Business Communicators (the purportedly global association that purportedly represents self-described “business communicators” – i.e. public relations, employee communication, corporation communication, photographers, publicists, webmasters, hairstylists, parking valets, etc.) sent out a broad email to current and former Canadian members boldly announcing, with considerable pride I […]