OttawaDoes Stéphane Dion’s promise to cancel the tax on income trusts make sense?As politicians’ broken promises go, the Conservative government’s decision in October 2006 to reverse course and put a new tax...
GeneralChrysler’s bold leap, and questionable colour schemeChrysler is going electric. It announced today three new plug-in cars, the first of which will roll off production lines in...
GeneralGoogle callingWe’ve been waiting a long time for this one: the arrival of the Google-powered cell phone. For now, it’s only being carried by...
GeneralJerry and Bill, connecting with the peopleThe first Seinfeld-Gates Microsoft ad didn’t go over very well (see Steve Maich’s column from the current issue of...
GeneralThe Volt, now with pictures!Edmunds has pics of the electric Chevy Volt, or "The car that will save Detroit" as we like to call it. Not nearly as exotic as...
GeneralSteve Jobs, still not dead, still skinnyThe man spells it out for us, while introducing the new iPods today. This, in response to Bloomberg’s accidental running of his...
GeneralA tale of two carbon taxesI imagine Stephane Dion spends a lot of time wondering exactly what went wrong with the Green Shift. It’s not like he was wading...
GeneralThe National Regulator Now movementIn the Globe and Mail today, Bill Downe, CEO of the Bank of Montreal, throws his support behind Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s...
GeneralMicrosoft isn’t funny, but that’s okA few weeks back we came down hard on Microsoft for its misguided Vista-Mojave ad in which it attacked its own customers for not...
GeneralVipers, Magna and the NürburgringChrysler is thinking about selling off the Dodge Viper, its iconic 600 hp sports car. Like GM, which is trying to ditch its Hummer...