A product of cable network Showtime, BILLIONS has just completed a high impact second season. The schedule expanded from the original season of ten episodes to twelve.
BILLIONS has become a modern times, high quality organic product. It showcases fast-paced dramatic writing with actors inhabiting their roles in stark transitions of settings. This mix of properties is a dependable formula for customer, i.e. viewer, loyalty. (more…)
In the early 1990s a movie came out with the seemingly innocuous title of SNEAKERS. In it, a diverse group of professional security hackers are caught up in case involving Russians, organized crime, and ‘too many secrets’.
How many intriguing plot points in movies and television programs trace their roots to the keeping of or revelation of secrets?
An article in the current month edition of Psychology Today discusses the world of inner secrets (or, the inner world of secrets). (more…)
Many of us in Canada look in forward to a getaway, from late fall to early spring, to a warm southern destination somewhere in the Caribbean.
While we can plan and prepare for the trip as best we might, there are likely to be some surprises along the journey, some favourable and some not. (more…)
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Anyone who has recently had the experience of completing or updating a Will (at least in Canada) has likely discovered, as I have, that the legalese terminology has been transformed into a little less technical linguistics, but replaced with a larger volume of phraseology covering subject matter which used to be implied, rather than overtly stated. (more…)
There are signs posted around Ottawa for Canada’s 150th birthday. This would seem to be a worthwhile cause. However, they prominently feature a sponsor name next to the emblem. One cannot help wondering if there’s no limit to such pervasiveness: even the promotion of a national sesquicentennial is not immune to association with patronage. (more…)
Anyone exposed to conventional media such as television knows that the early part of the year is replete with award shows. Those that are televised, at least broadly, they tend to be affairs which take the ceremonies and nominations seriously, while ‘under the lights’.
However, as in life, there are some parts of the awards world which fall between the cracks.
Here’s a list of some ‘under the radar’ award celebrations, which some in society deem worthwhile, televised or not: (more…)
Those familiar with Freakonomics will likely recall one of the pivotal observations delved into about human behaviour: people’s actions are greatly, if not primarily, influenced by incentives.
This caveat is revisited in the new issue of Psychology Today. A major article discusses the links between human motivation and incentives which may be laid, sometimes waylaid, in its path. (more…)
An article in the January edition of The Insurance & Investment Journal discusses likely evolution of the insurance industry in Canada over the next two decades.
While obviously no on can foretell how it will look by then – especially given the ever-increasing pace of change – the roles of ‘consumption habits’ and technology are expected to be front and centre. (more…)
By now probably most of us are familiar with the concept of ‘crowdfunding’. As defined in Wikipedia, it “is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people”. It’s a source of alternative financing; in 2015, “it was estimated that worldwide over US$34 billion was raised this way”.
An article in a recent issue of Psychology Today explores the motivation for people to subscribe to this method of giving. (more…)
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TOP 10 Lesser Known CANADA 150 Events
Saturday, July 1st, officially marks Canada’s 150th birthday!
While many publicized celebrations are planned across the country for this special occasion, there are a number of other lesser known happenings, which nonetheless contribute to the breadth and depth of the Canadian mosaic…
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