Paul Sullivan is an award winning journalist and communications strategist in Vancouver , British Columbia.
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What fun it must be to be a multi-billionaire! You can pretty much buy anything or do anything you want. Like Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, net worth $25.2 billion and the world's 19th richest person. He just bought the Washington Post, one of America's most respected newspapers, for $250 million out of his own pocket, less than one per cent of his net worth....
It's the largest retailer in the world, the world's third-largest public company with more than 11,000 stores and 2.2 million employees worldwide, and it's not unionized. For the labour union movement, Walmart is the Holy Grail....
It's going to be tougher to bring home the bacon this year, thanks to global warming. According to the National Pig Association, a UK trade group, there will be a world shortage of pork and bacon next year as farmers stop raising pigs as the price of feed will skyrocket because of the drought in the US Midwest last year....
The University of Regina, which annually ranks among the top 10 universities in Canada in the Maclean's poll, isn't satisfied. Apparently, it's looking to go global. As soon as word gets out that it's offering Game of Thrones 101, the university's fame will extend all the way to Westeros, the mythical kingdom in which the deadly game is played....
Figure it out. The average life span lasts about 29,000 days. Might sound like a lot, but that's all you get. So why would you spend a single one at a Star Trek Convention? The original Star Trek's Captain Kirk, William Shatner, had a lucid moment a few years back when he wondered the same thing....
As you wave goodbye to the kids today, staggering under the weight of their 30-pound backpacks, stuffed with textbooks, iPads/ iPhones/iPods, healthy lunch (which they'll pitch as soon as you're not looking and head for the nearest cheeseburger), gym clothes (which are clean for at least one day this year), and various waiver forms, consider the investment that's climbing out of the SUV....
One day, people went about their business, sharp and alert, and then, the very next day, the streets and roads were filled with slack-jawed zombies peering into little screens, tapping compulsively into little keypads, oblivious to anyone and anything around them....
One day, people went about their business, sharp and alert, and then, the very next day, the streets and roads were filled with slack-jawed zombies peering into little screens, tapping compulsively into little keypads, oblivious to anyone and anything around them....
