Recently I had a craving for Chinese food. It reminded me of when I was a kid and I so looked forward to opening the fortune cookie. My parents would have to hide the cookies from us kids because we would always want to open them right away. At the time these messages were so ...

Most of us go about our lives with the simplest of intentions, don’t get me wrong our lives are complicated but given the choice we would rather learn by osmosis than pull an all nighter learning a complex concept. If you were to tell me that when I was a second year McMaster ...

When we look back at 2025 will we all agree, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”, maybe no truer words have been spoken in the history of our two countries. Charles Dickens wrote A Tale Of Two Cities in 1859, it takes place in the last quarter of the 18th cen...

I consider myself an early adopter, I love new technology and I come by it honestly. I can remember hearing stories about my maternal grandfather having one of the first colour televisions in Hamilton. Considering my grandfather emigrated to Canada in 1951, with $100 in his po...

Whatever happened to all those predictions of the last 25 years? Every year, there are bold predictions, many of which were born at the end of the 20th Century and were pegged to the year 2020. We all remember that year and how the world was derailed, which makes me wonder: Wh...

Traditionally December marks a month when we cast our minds to hope for the next year. As the 21st century says farewell to it’s first quarter, I felt I owed this century some homage, by not predicting what was going to happen when the the 2000’s turns 25, but by forecasting w...

From a business headlines perspective November is probably the most quiet month of the year compared to October or March. I researched landmark economic events in the month of November and found two which stood out in the last 100 years. The end of WW1 in November of 1918 a mo...

If I had to pinpoint something in my day that I would say I cherish, it’s my birthday calls. It gives me an opportunity to speak to our agents and staff on another level. We try and keep it light and about their milestone in the year, but it inevitably comes around to our busi...

An Ode to A Canadian/American Home Buyer/Seller I recently had the pleasure of being in San Diego to attend a real estate conference. I have experienced the joy of visiting San Diego a total of 5 times in my life, I have told the story several times where, during each trip to ...

For the first five days of August my home internet/cable was down. That meant I was without streaming on my smart TV and of course no mainstream TV. It’s not that I am a TV or streaming junkie but I use these entertainment sources as white noise in the background. As I move fr...

Recently I had the chance to watch that famous monologue by the actor Jeff Daniels from The Newsroom (2012), where he reluctantly answered the question, ‘Why is America the greatest country in the world?’ The scene was played at a real estate conference I attended recently in ...