Archive for September, 2007
Bear Mountain Resort is a ticket to paradise
Friday, September 21st, 2007Situated on the outskirts of Victoria, British Columbia, is one of Western Canada’s largest real estate developments. Its name, appropriately enough, is Bear Mountain Resort, in recognition of Jack Nicklaus, golf legend and course architect. Len Barrie, developer and former professional hockey player, originally designed the resort solely as an 18-hole course with a few […]
In Toronto, a $360,000 home makes you average
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007The average house in Toronto in August sold for $362,000. That’s not bad when you compare it to Vancouver, where you need to pony up $587,000 just to be mediocre. I often feel the urge to re-locate to the east coast (my wife’s from PEI) where you can be average for the bargain basement price […]
Ellen Degeneres loves Aqua2Go
Sunday, September 16th, 2007I came across this simple product a couple of weeks ago while watching a January 2007 rerun of the Ellen Degeneres show and I’m absolutely sold on its merits as a breakthrough for getting children, and adults for that matter, to drink more water. Its name is Aqua2Go and it’s the latest export from the […]
United Retail Group bought out
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Well, how the tide has turned. Just three weeks ago, I was bemoaning some stock picks, one in particular, I made last October. Back in the fall of 2006 I wrote multiple posts about five retailers I thought would do exceptionally well in 2007 and beyond. One pick, United Retail Group, was down a demoralizing […]
For anyone that cares about Ontario
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007This is a short but sweet post about the upcoming election on October 10. In case you didn’t know — not only are Ontarians voting on this day to secure a better future — we are having a referendum to decide whether we want a new electoral system. In the current one, you vote for […]
Buckle deserves some love
Thursday, September 6th, 2007The back-to-school retail numbers came out today and they were remarkably buoyant considering the doom and gloom spreading through the retail community in recent weeks. It turns out that kids still need happening threads for the first day of school. Most retailers reporting beat analyst expectations, with my favorite retail stock (Buckle) having a particularly […]
3Luxe is search engine nirvana
Saturday, September 1st, 2007I did some search engine research this week and found what will be the next great search tool for finding relevant consumer product information. If you enter the word “jeans” in Google, you get 67 million results. That’s not exactly precise. Now go to the new search engine 3Luxe; exactly three results show up. That’s […]