When it comes to protesting we have to give it to Quebecers, they are just better protesters than the rest of Canadians.  As we have seen the recent students protest over tuition fee increase, they really are passionate and have demonstrated that they, both the young and old, will hit the streets to show their disdain for policies that they feel are unfair or against their way of life.

As much as it is to our displeasure in hearing the ongoing saga between the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, and the Toronto Star newspaper cat-fight we now have  the latest incident of harassing and stalking of the mayor which, if true,  is a new low for The Star.  Of course the different media outlets were quick to report the incident and it has now become pretty much public news.

Basically the mayor was alerted by his neighbor, Mr. Gagro,  that a suspicious person was peeping into his backyard on cinder blocks and that person happens to be the Toronto Star photo journalist, Daniel Dale.  Afterward the mayor came out and a confrontation ensues with the mayor being so angry that he said he was really close to punching Daniel Dale while the reporter said he fled because he was fearful of the mayor. 

In order to avoid another provincial election the Liberal leader, Dalton McGuinty, and NDP leader, Andrea Horwath, have joined forces to tax the rich.

Anyone making over $500,000 will be taxed 2% to help pay down Ontario's deficit according to the Liberals and the new tax is expected to generate about $470 million annually for the government.  This is good news to the common folks who feel that they have been taxed long enough and it's time that the rich gets a taste of the same medicine.

Of course in these times of austerity measures that are happening around the world, the NDP have won a symbolic victory for their party base as they have shown that they can work with a minority government and get their agenda fulfilled. 

Yesterday AOL, if many of you don’t know what it is, it’s America Online- the onetime internet giant that brought Time Warner Cable systems, sold 800 Patents to Microsoft for $1.1 Billion.  Living through the transition of AOL of yesteryears to AOL today I couldn’t help but to ponder.  Would AOL be the next Blockbuster?

The answer is yes, and it will be in 2 years.  Let looks at AOL business model.  80% of AOL’s revenue is subscribers, 75% of whom don’t need it.  Many of AOL Subscribers are still using internet dial up.  If you don’t know what’s dial up is just think fax machine for internet.  That’s right! People still pay AOL a lot of money for the privilege of checking email, and slow porn.