Pope Fabian Ⅱ

Political extremists aren’t always the best at differentiating between correlation and causation. Let’s see how this plays out.

The secret is salt.

We already have a Texas. It’s called Alberta.

To be fair, sometimes a press deadline is just unreasonable. My dad was called for comment on a recent corporate acquisition. At the time, he was driving to another province to pick up my older sister who had three days’ notice to head back home to fill a spot in a classroom. She was on a waiting list and their vehicle even broke down during the trip. This was during the age of car phones, but airtime was so costly, we never used ours. The newspaper made it seem like he didn’t want to comment.

Sometimes life just happens at an inconvenient time.

Am I old if I read BTRFS as butterface?

Surely those standards are occasionally amended to include historic exceptions.

Also, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation which has recently paid for YouTube ads against automatic tax filing.

I am a used car salesman just for the day.

That’ll buff right out.

Yes, this old news is about a nuclear-powered attack submarine, not necessarily a submarine that can nuclear-attack.

Make it true. Make an announcement saying we have ceded to his demands and have forbidden the banks from operating here.

The PM agrees with The Globe and Mail once and now they think they’ll get two in a row?

Could you edit your comment to include a homophone in your third sentence? For instance, substitute “no” with “know”, or “way” with “weigh”?

I’ll delete my comment afterwards. It’s just that comedy often comes in threes.

Yes. According to my experience in my small corner of the world, around 2010, the cool people had iPhones, but when you wanted to do serious business, you still used a BlackBerry. Unfortunately, some easily-influenced executives often would prioritize looking cool and just let their I.T department figure out how they can get their work done, even though Apple had nothing that could compare to the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).

On top of that, most consumers and gullible executives didn’t see the hidden benefits of BES, because with Research In Motion’s (RIM) push to enter the consumer market, all the marketing material out at the time focused on the comparatively impotent consumer offering, BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), instead.

Trying to survive in the narrow-margins of the consumer market killed RIM. In 2011, you would get teased for having a BlackBerry if you didn’t know how to stand up for yourself and articulate how no other mobile device had the level of magic* making everything work in the back end.

* BES ran on a dozen JAVA services which required arcane magic to work.

Good point.

The reality is that the rich have ways of making gains look like losses on paper. Capital gains taxes mainly hurt people who can’t afford an accountant.

Loblaws, I think.

You’ve pointed out an aspect of this that has escaped too many. You don’t fight nationalism with more nationalism. This trade war can only result in stronger trade partnerships with other nations.

You’ve got an interesting take on grammar, and you have me at a disadvantage. I’d love to understand what you just wrote in your first paragraph.

I’d eat these if they didn’t have milk in them.

Hopefully candy makers will get a clue one day soon that incorporating as many unnecessary allergens as possible in a single product is bad for business.