Quinn McIlhone After Labour Day we watch the second week of night matches at the U.S. Open. Twilight comes early, the air has an edge and my hitting partner often stays for dinner. We order out for pizza and watch the tennis still in our whites, the guest nursing a pint in an armchair, you and I on the couch with our feet up. Often I drift away and catch myself daydreaming about her, thrills pulsing through me in waves of delight. Because I am circumspect about physical invol

Bob Morrissey If you’re without a family doctor in Quebec — and want one — my question to you is this: Why? Instead of getting tangled up in our health-care system, you might want to see a doctor at a clinic or hospital emergency room. The waiting period might be five or six hours, but maybe it’s worth it. Here’s why: if you’re diagnosed with anything serious, help is often literally next door. If you’re diagnosed in your GP’s office you might get a referral, which probably m

Just learned something from a chartered professional accountant that I don’t think many Canadians who hire accountants to do their taxes (or anything else) know about: Increasingly, when you hire a Canadian accounting firm to do your taxes, the work is likely to be done in India or Thailand or wherever by an accountant there who works for a fraction of what Canadian accountants receive. This was news to me. I’ll bet it is to you. When this happens, all of your pertinent finan