Beyond the Rhetoric

Earlier this week, the CBC reported that Ottawa “will vigorously lobby against” the proposal put forth by the United States Department of Homeland Security to levy a fee for every vehicle or pedestrian that crosses a land border into the country. This would be true both at the Canada-US border and the Mexico-US border, charging [...]

When two words sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings, it can be easy to confuse the two. This is further exacerbated when the two words are seemingly related in some way. That is exactly the case with copyright and copywrite, a couple of terms that are particularly relevant to my [...]

The English language is filled with all sorts of different rules for how you conjugate verbs or how you convert one type of word into another. For example, it is generally true that if you add “-ed” to the end of a verb, you effectively form the past tense form of that verb. The problem [...]

Perhaps it would be better if each of the words in the English language had just a single meaning. That way, there would be absolutely no ambiguity when you used any given word, because it would only have one possible interpretation. For better or for worse, that is not the case. One prime example of [...]

And here we are again. In 2010, businesses across British Columbia had to transition from charging separate GST (federal) and PST (provincial) to a Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). This caused a lot of confusion for a lot of small business owners and that’s why I wrote a blog post at the time to explain what [...]