World's Best Boss Gives Employees Mercedes Benz Cars And Vacations

Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer gave his top 55 performers Mercedes Benz cars and vacations to over 700 other staff as rewards for good performance. Do you think that his companies will continue to prosper? Read more here.

Injured Unemployed Man Wins The Lottery

He won $15,000,000.00. Read the story here.

Mom Wants Troops To Come Home

A mother of a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan wants an end to the mission in 2011 as the government promised. The government recently announced that Canadian troops will remain in Afghanistan until 2014 as "trainers."

I agree with this mother. How many more lives have to be lost before the country is handed back to the Taliban and the warlords? To the best of my knowledge, no Canadian politician has a son serving in Afghanistan.

Read the story here about the Canadian Mom who wants the troops to come home in 2011.

US Mormon Doctors Training Guyanese Health Professionals

There have recently been a series of deaths of mothers during child-birth, or shortly afterwards, in Guyana. Some babies have also died. One of those mothers was the niece of one of my sisters-in-law. The generosity of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is to be commended. The training being offered will be a huge help to the newborn babies and their mothers. Thank you Mormons. Thank you America.

Read the complete story here.

Bring Canadian Troops Home From Afghanistan NOW

More than 150 Canadians have died in Afghanistan. We were supposed to bring all our troops home in 2011 but the date has now been moved to 2014, and who knows how many more times it will be moved before the "war" in Afghanistan ends.

Others, most recently the Soviets, tried to defeat the Afghans and failed. NATO will also fail for many reasons including - there is no defined objective, the foreigners always leave, and the Afghans know this.

In Canada, and I imagine also in other countries, soldiers and their families talk about "finishing the job." What, pray tell, is the job? Turn Afghanistan into a democracy? It will not happen in a hundred years. Build schools for girls? As soon as the foreigners leave the Taliban will torch all the schools for girls.  Develop Afghanistan into a modern western-style country? Impossible!

All the money poured into Afghanistan, and all the lives lost including the lives of Afghanis, will be for naught because at the end of the day the Afghanis have to solve their own problems. Our presence there is preventing them from doing so.

Alberta Couple Wins $22,000,000 Lotto Max

This guy was too lazy to pick the numbers...he just filled in the squares! It was most certainly his lucky day!! Read more here.

Millionaires Want To Pay Higher Taxes

More than 40 American millionaires have asked President Obama to let the George W. Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire. Amazing! But responsible!! If those who make money and those who are wealthy don't pay taxes, who will? Read more here. I would be more than happy to pay $1,000,000.00 or more a year in taxes because it will mean I am earning a heck of a lot of money.

Co-operation Is More Profitable Than Competition

For years Newfoundland & Labrador (NL) felt cheated by Hydro Quebec. NL felt it got the short end of the stick in a deal signed with Hydro Quebec many years ago. All attempts to re-negotiate the deal were rebuffed by Hydro Quebec. So, NL and their colorful premier Danny Williams has now made a deal with Nova Scotia for a new "green" mega project. Read the full story here. I am happy for Danny Williams and for all those who will benefit from this project. And by the way, the New England States are happy to see this project proceed since they too stand to benefit.

Hydro Quebec, by wanting the whole pie, will get none of this specific pie. Had they been willing to work cooperatively with NL, they too would have shared the benefits of this project.