63 responses so far ↓

• Dedo

  Nov 4, 2009 at 2:02 pm

  

  @Stacy “you’ve been Stephen Fry’d”
  lol,…where you gettin them from,..!
• redwolf

  Nov 4, 2009 at 2:26 pm

  

  Back in 2008, on October 7th, I wrote our glorious Finance Minister (in Canada), advising him of our perilous straits and pointing out the clear evidence of the economy going horribly pear-shaped, suggesting that the most rational solution was to sell or merely just give away gold and silver coinage. Under our agreements with the central banks of the world, I believe that most countries reserved the right to mint coins. There would have been no interest on the debt associated with this remedy.

  Mr Flaherty (who has since received kudos from the entire OECD for doing practically nothing) claimed that no one knew or could have known of the then developing downturn in the markets. He has since spent up to $60 Billion of rented paper money on the hydrocarbon economy and hockey rinks.

  The Universe is unfolding as it should.
• Illya Kuryakin

  Nov 4, 2009 at 4:15 pm

  

  @stacey

  I suppose deleting and “moderating” what WE have to say somehow empowers you?

  Pathetic. I am out of here.

  My best wishes and regards to all, I’ll see you in the next life.

  Illya
• ronron

  Nov 4, 2009 at 5:01 pm

  

  i will tell you something for nothing. as a father of 2, 27-30 boys that i love this world is worrysome.
• Mep

  Nov 4, 2009 at 5:08 pm

  

  @ Illya – I’ve twice had things get caught up in Max & Stacy’s spam filter. When that happens, it says that “your comment is awaiting moderation.” So I’d wait to see what happened before storming off.
• ronron

  Nov 4, 2009 at 5:18 pm

  

  one son in asia and one in sanfran. they were born in canada same as i. i miss them much
• ronron

  Nov 4, 2009 at 5:21 pm

  

  hey mep thanks from all of us. jees fuc thankx
• ronron

  Nov 4, 2009 at 5:37 pm

  

  i think canadians can be dangerous. i mean really. the guns are gone, good luck with that
• ronron

  Nov 4, 2009 at 5:47 pm

  

  ther’e is 50 ways to leave you lover. so 50 ways to leave your oliguark. can’t spell oilygarc
• bfskinner

  Nov 4, 2009 at 6:06 pm

  

  I’m glad Max was receptive to the callers.
• david

  Nov 4, 2009 at 6:16 pm

  

  That was a deadly show, Stacy you should try and get Max featured on it regularly , having to deal with a shower of half-a-thicks seems to bring out the best in him, with a bit of luck the Beeb will take a shine to yis.
• david

  Nov 4, 2009 at 7:20 pm

  

  whats with Knickers Monica aka Illya Kuryakin…
• Bill Stewart

  Nov 4, 2009 at 11:26 pm

  

  CEOs vastly overpaid, study suggests
  U.S. researcher used chemical engineering equations for calculations

  http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/11/04/consumer-ceo-pay.html

  Chief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their “ideal salaries” in 2008, according to an analysis by a Purdue University researcher.

  Venkat Venkatasubramanian, a chemical engineer, said he’s devised a new way to calculate the true worth of top CEOs based on equations found in chemical engineering.

  His paper — What is Fair Pay for Executives? An Information Theoretic Analysis of Wage Distributions — was published Tuesday in the online open-access journal Entropy.

  Fair pay for an average S&P 500 CEO should ideally be in the range of 8 to 16 times the lowest employee salary, according to Venkatasubramanian’s calculations.

  By contrast, average CEO pay ratios were about 11-to-1 in Japan, 15-to-1 in France, 20-to-1 in Canada and 22-to-1 in Britain in 2006.

  Since the 1970s in the United States, the ratio of CEO pay to the lowest employee’s salary has gone up to as high as 344-to-1 from about 40-to-1.

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  Gas bills going down by 8%

  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/11/04/sk-gas-decrease911.html

  Natural gas bills in Saskatchewan are going down about eight per cent, the government announced Wednesday.

  In the morning, cabinet approved a rate decrease at SaskEnergy, retroactive to Nov. 1.

  For a typical residential customer, bills will go down by about $6.75 a month or $81 annually, a 7.8 per cent decrease. Gas bills are a combination of the commodity cost of the gas and the delivery cost.

  This time it’s the commodity cost of natural gas that’s changing, dropping by 12.6 per cent in response to falling market prices.

  Meanwhile, a hike on the delivery cost of the gas is being considered.

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  The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and the McDonald’s restaurant chain are denouncing an email making the rounds that suggests there’s a problem with the country’s beef supply.

  http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/11/04/sk-cattle-beef-email-hoax-mcdonalds.html

  The electronic note claims the hamburger-maker is making plans to buy beef from South America.

  “This email chain is a hoax,” McDonald’s said in a news release issued Tuesday. It said the note contained a number of false claims and was similar to other bogus emails that had circulated in the past in different parts of the United States.

  It said a Canadian version of the email surfaced earlier this year.

  Beef producers say the issue is important because of the volume of sales to the fast food giant.

  “This one is so blatantly untrue,” Brad Wildeman, president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and a feedlot operator in Saskatchewan, told CBC News.

  “[McDonald's] is our No. 1 customer,” Wildeman said. “And we just don’t think it’s fair to target either the beef industry … or one of our major customers with outright lies.”