Double Take
Thomas Watson is a Senior Writer and editorial board member with Canadian Business magazine. Since winning a community journalism award as a cub reporter with the Hamilton Spectator in the early 90s, he has covered business, finance, politics and technology for various news outlets. Prior to joining CB in 2001, he reported on the steel and automotive sectors for the Financial Post. Watson received his first magazine award nomination for exposing a stock manipulation plot aimed at Open Text Corp. in 2000, when he was head of investor relations for an international venture capital outfit in the City of London. Watson holds graduate degrees in political philosophy, international relations and public finance and undergraduate degrees in history and politics.
Like many Farrah Fawcett fans, I think the death of Michael Jackson robbed the passing of Charlie’s most famous angel of some well-deserved news coverage. After all, Jill Munroe and her fellow detectives (I was more of a Kate Jackson devotee) influenced my life far more than the moon-walking pop ...
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The anti-Harper crowd is making way too much out of an off-the-cuff comment on taxes made by Canada's prime minister.
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Some folks think deflation is still a real threat. Not Warren Buffett. Yesterday, the world’s second richest man said the U.S. economy has “no bounce,” but he dismissed any risk of deflation while praising the Obama administration and Federal Reserve central bank for applying powerful jumper cables to keep America's ...
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Not many people see similarities between U.S. President Barack Obama, the proselytizer of change, and the former guy who ran the White House, the now-reviled George W. Bush (just in case you have forgotten). But independent Wall Street economist Robert Brusca sees things different than most. And he thinks the ...
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Reading material from Canadian Business and Simon & Schuster Canada is still up for grabs. To try to win this Father's Day giveaway, all you have to do is read my blog posting below and make the best comment (for or against) the auto bailouts.
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Something must be wrong with me, which probably isn’t news to everybody. Nevertheless, I am appalled by the $14-plus-billion (and counting) cost of the Canadian auto company bailouts. I don't think it is worth spending this huge amount of public money to try to save maybe five thousand jobs, especially ...
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Something must be wrong with me, which probably isn’t news to everybody. Nevertheless, I am appalled by the $14-plus-billion (and counting) cost of the Canadian auto company bailouts. I don't think it is worth spending this huge amount of public money to try to save maybe five thousand jobs, especially ...
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Air Canada sent me an email this week, offering to show me the "finer side of travel" for an extra $425, which would allow me to access a limited number of its "extensive network" of airport lounges. I did a double-take because this is an airline that recently showed my ...
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According to Dan Becker, director of the American environmental group Safe Climate Campaign, U.S. President Barack Obama’s new national fuel-economy standard is the "biggest single step to curb global warming" that has been taken to date. That boast, of course, is wrong. The financial crisis gets my vote. But either ...
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You can always tell when the media has a new flavour of the month. Today, Jeff Rubin is it, thanks to the release of his new book, not to mention his recent departure as CIBC World Markets' chief economist and chief strategist.
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