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Weak business investment casts cloud over strong GDP growth + MORE Dec 1st
The GDP update shows a country rebounding from a weaker second quarter, but businesses are still hesitant to commit to a hazy future
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5 New Jumbo Reverse Mortgage Options For 2020 Oct 4th
So you want to know about new jumbo reverse mortgage options for this year, right? Okay, for your honor we will be discussing here the top new 5 versions of jumbo. But before going through those versions, you had better know as a loan what Jumbo is.
Well, a jumbo mortgage is one sort of financing. .... More »
The circus elephant takes a final bow + MORE Apr 26th
An elephant act at a circus performance on December 19,1958. (Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock Photo)
The dowager ambles toward an early supper, leaving footprints as round as moons. She is a saggy-skinned and cloudy-eyed old girl, born before India was independent, a subject of the British Raj..... More »
Weekend Reading – Dead simple investing, selling Berkshire, household expenses, and #money stuff + MORE Mar 31st
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Weekend Reading
Welcome to my latest Weekend Reading edition. I hope you’ve had a good week. As I write this post, we’re bracing for yet another winter storm in Ottawa. I suppose it could be worse – our friends down east in St. John&.... More »
What are the risks of trading crypto? + MORE Apr 20th
Thinking about getting into crypto? Bitcoin, ethereum and their multitude of smaller competitors have created a new world of investment opportunities. No doubt, the crypto economy is exciting, but proceed with caution. Cryptocurrencies are still considered highly speculative, and not only because of.... More »
In suit, transgender man charges loan company he worked for wanted him to behave like a woman
– canadianbusiness.com
NEW ORLEANS – A 21-year-old transgender man says in a sex discrimination lawsuit that he was forced to leave his job at a Mississippi-based loan company once officials there found out he was born a woman but dressed and acted like man.
Tristan Broussard filed suit on Monday against First Tower Loan LLC., a financial loan company based in Flowood, Mississippi, with offices in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri and Illinois.
Broussard charges he was forced to leave his job at its Lake Charles, Louisiana, offices in March 2013 after a company executive found out he was listed on his driver’s license as female. He charges that the executive demanded he dress and act like a woman, something he refused to do.
John Tucker, Tower Loan’s general counsel, declined to comment because the case is a pending lawsuit and it concerns a personnel matter.
Broussard was hired in February 2013 as a sales representative at Tower Loan of Lake Charles, a company affiliated with First Tower Loan…
Tristan Broussard filed suit on Monday against First Tower Loan LLC., a financial loan company based in Flowood, Mississippi, with offices in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri and Illinois.
Broussard charges he was forced to leave his job at its Lake Charles, Louisiana, offices in March 2013 after a company executive found out he was listed on his driver’s license as female. He charges that the executive demanded he dress and act like a woman, something he refused to do.
John Tucker, Tower Loan’s general counsel, declined to comment because the case is a pending lawsuit and it concerns a personnel matter.
Broussard was hired in February 2013 as a sales representative at Tower Loan of Lake Charles, a company affiliated with First Tower Loan…
Generational shift in real estate forces Gen Y to downsize
– theglobeandmail.com
With the average price of a detached home in Vancouver surging to nearly $2-million, Gen Y buyers are being squeezed out of the market
135 laid off with little notice at Advance Engineered Products in Regina
– canadianbusiness.com
REGINA – About 135 employees at Advance Engineered Products in Regina were laid off with little notice on Monday after the company filed for creditor protection.
Hugh Wagner, president of the Grain Services Union, said the layoffs stem from the company’s application for creditor protection on Friday.
Advance Engineered Products manufactures tanker trucks.
CEO Darryll Zwarych said in a release that “a sharp and sudden downturn in the energy market in Western Canada has resulted in customers cancelling or deferring sales orders which has materially reduced our manufacturing backlog.”
He added creditor protection process would give the company the opportunity to “restructure its financial obligations” and “right-size its operations to reflect the current reality of the energy sector.”
The company said its Advance Tank Centre in Regina will continue to operate normally, focusing on customer service.
Wagner said a skeleton crew will continue to operate in manufacturing to finish works in progress and to keep the operation alive for possible future projects…
Hugh Wagner, president of the Grain Services Union, said the layoffs stem from the company’s application for creditor protection on Friday.
Advance Engineered Products manufactures tanker trucks.
CEO Darryll Zwarych said in a release that “a sharp and sudden downturn in the energy market in Western Canada has resulted in customers cancelling or deferring sales orders which has materially reduced our manufacturing backlog.”
He added creditor protection process would give the company the opportunity to “restructure its financial obligations” and “right-size its operations to reflect the current reality of the energy sector.”
The company said its Advance Tank Centre in Regina will continue to operate normally, focusing on customer service.
Wagner said a skeleton crew will continue to operate in manufacturing to finish works in progress and to keep the operation alive for possible future projects…
