Apple has informed investors that due to the ongoing inves­ti­gation into their options backdating problems, they may be removed from the Nasdaq’s special “Global Select Market.” How select, you may ask? Well, a mere 1/3 of companies listed on the Nasdaq are privi­leged enough to make the cut. Wait, was that a typo? One-third of companies […]

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When you pass the UFE, your partners, managers and co-workers line up to congrat­ulate you on your success. In my case, fellow bloggers joined in the chorus. On top of all this, your Member of Parliament sends you a certificate like the one pictured here. It’s nice to keep getting things that can be framed, […]

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Exxon Mobil announced recently the highest annual profits by a US corpo­ration in history. Reaction was predictable — the US Congress was littered with outraged politi­cians calling for a windfall profits tax. But that would be wrong, and the Tax Foundation can explain why much better than I: While they were recording record profits last year, […]

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The Canadian audit oversight body, the Canadian Public Account­ability Board, announced Friday that last year they dereg­is­tered a small firm in Vancouver (which has since gone out of business) and prevented three other small firms from accepting new client due to deficiencies in their audits discovered upon inspection. My initial thought was, these small firms […]

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A group of Toronto bloggers are getting together this weekend for the TTC TransitCamp to brain­storm ways to improve the TTC’s absolutely horrid website. When I first heard about it a few days ago, my first impulse was to try to get involved. Then I realized, there are probably many more Toron­to­nians with much more […]

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