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July 2009

Shotts and Dykehead and the Drum Salute of the Week

July 31, 2009 Song of the Week

Here’s another one from the pipe band world. It’s Shotts’ drum corps doing their awesome 2007 drum fanfare. Their lead, Jim Kilpatrick is one of the most amazing drummers on the planet. For one, the video description is actually accurate: This video was shot a day before the Worlds 2007 when Shotts and Dykehead had [...]

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BC’s HST Threatens Housing Recovery

July 30, 2009 News

REIN put out a press release on Monday regarding BC’s decision to move from a split 5/7% GST/PST to a harmonized 13% HST. The big concern is now there are several items which were not subject to HST will now become taxable. This includes real estate. “What this means is that the new sales tax [...]

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Six Reasons No One Wants to Buy Your F-ing Real Estate Investment

July 27, 2009 Real Estate

I get to talk with a lot of people who are new to investing. As a rule, they’re amazing and frequently very successful, particularly among the REIN crew. Most of us know that one person who just won’t shut up. Since I’ve been one, and I’ve been exposed to quite a few lately, I’m going [...]

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U2 – Bloody Sunday

July 24, 2009 Song of the Week

I’ve been in a U2 mood today, and in about a month I’ll be in Ireland. That sounds like a perfect recipe for U2′s song Bloody Sunday. This is the live extended (7 minute) version. Enjoy your weekend!

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How to be Happy in Business

July 24, 2009 Business

Bud Caddell of Undercurrent wrote an amazing blog post the other day that I found via Flowing Data. The Venn Diagram is amazing and he’s right on the money. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bud_caddell/ / CC BY 2.0 And the meat of what he’s talking about. We can’t determine how to make enough money from the things we want [...]

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Almost Out of the Recession and Growing

July 23, 2009 News

The Bank of Canada released the July Monetary Policy Report. Straight from the mouth of Mark Carney: The Bank has long expected that economic growth in Canada would resume in the second half of this year and pick up in 2010. Indeed, growth in Canada should resume this quarter. The dynamics of the recovery projected [...]

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Lessons from Ted Rogers for Real Estate Investors

July 22, 2009 Books

Lately I’ve been reading voraciously. I read Freakonomics in 2 days, right now I’m  re-reading the gentrification bible The Death and Life of Great American cities and on the weekend I just finished reading Ted Rogers autobiography. Ted Rogers was a real action taker and I found some principles that we could apply as real [...]

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