Free Credit Report.com is in trouble with the FTC :: FreeCreditReport.com is owned by credit bureau Experian, which has been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Federal Trade Commission over alleged misbehavior. Most recently, in 2005, the FTC settled charges with the firm that it intentionall...

I turn 35 on Wednesday.  Wendy invited a couple of people to go bowling with us this weekend (life is easier when I get Mark to plan my birthday parties) and I got an odd card from the National Bank of Canada with who I hold my mortgage with.  I am assuming that after the bad press that they have ...

Two weeks ago almost everyone in my department was getting sick.  When I did payroll on Friday, I joked that the entire $3 billion slush fund that the Tories and Liberals are arguing about was needed just to pay our departments sick time.  About the same time my staff came back, I got sick...

Years ago in Saskatoon, they brought out containers for garbage pickup.  They were awesome and in Lawson Heights each home had their own garbage container.  When Wendy and I bought a house in Mayfair, we had a massive one but it was shared between four houses.  If you waited more than...

I don’t know how many of you remember Scholastic Books as a kid but if you don’t, they send home from school a catalog every couple of months and you send your order through the school.  As it was when I was a kid, it’s a pretty big day around here when the catalog comes home and then whe...

Rick Reilly has an excellent article in ESPN about taking a grieving nephew to meet John Elway As locals, Cynthia and I took them to lunch at one of Elway’s restaurants so Jake could see all the jerseys and photos. The kid was so excited he hardly ate. And that was before a certain Hall of Fam...

Wow, CBS News is saying that the average home price in Detroit is only $7000. Detroit real estate broker Ian Mason currently has 200 listings, largely foreclosures banks are desperate to get off their books. And that desperation is making for some incredible deals. Bowers asked him how much he sold ...

In case you missed the big news about Twitter, it was acquired by my dog Maggi last week. While it has since been broken into pieces, that dog toy below Maggi looks just like the Twitter mascot which we found at Old Navy.  At it’s most recent evaluation, the toy Twitter was worth $6.99 but it...

Free 24 Sussex Drive :: Canadians need to take 24 Sussex Drive out of the politics of the day and let the National Capital Commission run it without interference of the Prime Minister of the day. A pretty good commercial for Joey Logano and the Home Depot 25 tips for the hard times ahead Share and E...

Tom Sine of Mustard Seed Associates sent along this link to an excellent article he wrote for Christianity Today about churches preparing for the recession.  He describes the situation pretty well. Shelters all over the U.S. that provide food and housing for the homeless report that demand is s...