Beyond the Rhetoric

To many people, video games are little more than a source of distraction and corruption for teenage boys. I beg to differ. When utilized appropriately, video games can be fantastic learning tools, even if only in a tangential sort of way. If real time strategy games teach resource management and first person shooters improve hand-eye [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) is a technology/music/film festival that takes place annually in Austin, Texas in March. The event brings tens of thousands of people to this hip college town, and each attendee has a story to tell. You’d think capturing those stories would be easy – prime content-creation fodder for the enterprising freelance journalist. [...]

The world of commerce is based on the relatively simple principle of buying and selling things. I want to buy an apple, for example. In order for that to happen, the orchard owner has to pick the apple off the tree. He then sells that apple to a distributor who, in turn, sells it to [...]

This week, I want to take a step back from finance and have a quick look at business. There is a direct relationship between business and finance. And what better example than a restaurant, as this is a business I understand extremely well. I spent 11 years in it and I know it like the [...]

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 [...]