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UFE in the spotlight">The UFE in the spotlight

September 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I was referred to a story in the September 10th Toronto Star about the UFE by my girlfriend’s Mom. It’s about time this momentous occasion is chron­icled in the most-read daily in the country: Starting Tuesday, more than 650 students will write the profes­sional accounting exam in Toronto — more than 2,500 in Canada. I’ll […]

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Toronto becoming more expensive to live

June 25th, 2006 · 6 Comments

Not through any direct experience of my own, although my landlord did take the oppor­tunity to raise my rent the maximum allowable by law a month ago, but the city has been moving up the ranks of the most expensive on the planet. Toronto of course ranks first in Canada as the most expensive place […]

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Mapping out my clients after a year in public practice

May 27th, 2006 · 3 Comments

I have been playing around with Windows Live Local lately, Microsoft’s compe­tition for Google Maps. I decided to map all the clients where I’ve been in the last year with my firm. For the blue ones I just had to search for the business name, but the red ones represent clients that I had to […]

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Electric atmosphere at Jays opener

April 5th, 2006 · No Comments

I was at the Toronto Blue Jays baseball game last night at the Rogers Centre and man was it crazy. Over 50,000 people there to watch the Jays? What is this, 1993? I had a good seat down the third base line, giving me a great view of Bengie Molina’s home run in the 4th inning. […]

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GTA">Building and rebuilding in the GTA

March 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments

The Toronto Star has two stories on their front page today about devel­opment in Toronto and the surrounding area worth noting. The West Don Lands devel­opment is a community being built over derelict indus­trial buildings east of downtown. And Vaughan’s proposed corporate centre and downtown is an idea that is seeing the light of day […]

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