It’s Mother’s Day and hot and packed as hell and dust rises from the car lot as from a cloak in Miss Havisham’s closet and settles over the hundreds of hikers and picnickers enjoying the shafting light that tricks its way through the tall redwoods. Find a table, spread out the food, and sip expensive[…]

Retailers and restaurants are loading up on beef supplies, signaling that customers will enjoy summer promotions. May be getting closer to restarting trade with China, the world’s second biggest beef buyer, opening a market that’s been shut since 2003. The brightening picture is drawing the attention of hedge funds, who have the most bullish holding[…]

One of the newest arrivals to Shanghai yoga scene, and one business owner who has tried to address the challenge is Kazuko Koikeda. Consulate in the fashionable former French Concession and next door to a vegetarian restaurant she has run for two years. While other big yoga studios “are targeting the mass market, Koikeda notes,[…]

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He will call for this steady price when the oil cartel OPEC meets in Caracas in June. People who don’t like Chavez call this greedy and unfair. People who like him think it’s generous.. In the Plain community, typically, one child stays at the parents’ home in an addition built onto the existing house. Stoltzfus[…]

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That album’s “I Want You To Want Me” was a top 10 hit, but Cheap Trick didn’t get to No. 1 until 1988, when record executives decided they didn’t hear a single on the album “Lap of Luxury” and began to bombard the band with cover song options. One of those was “The Flame.” The[…]

Not everyone is smiling though. Some see the move as a race to the bottom. What frills are left to take away from flying, they wonder. The rigors of college have you in class and studying in the library all day with your stomach barking for food, but you don’t have the money to take[…]

The point at which perspective and analysis becomes opinion is somewhat subjective, however. The article in the Globe and Mail makes the argument that businesses need to outsource jobs to remain competitive. It also argues that the foreign IT workers are better qualified than Canadian ones: technology workers displaced in Canada are being replaced not[…]