Seek the Summit

Resale prices for Canadian homes rose to their highest average on record in May 2009. This is in the context the fourth straight month of increases in sales activity, and improving consumer confidence.

Here at Seek the Summit, we’re all about celebrating the amazing outdoors British Columbia has to offer. But living next to nature means being aware that there are dangers inherent in outdoor sports.
Pretty logical. So, in the vein of “cautionary tale”, I give you the following (Note, the snowmobiler here did manage to get away [...]

Check it out: Blackberry App World doesn’t support the Firefox browser. Instead, they’d like me to go over to IE… Are they kidding?

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This web page uses ActiveX controls that work only in Microsoft Internet Explorer. To ensure that BlackBerry App World is correctly downloaded to your BlackBerry, this site is not designed to work with [...]

I need to expound upon this topic in much greater detail, but this is a very good start:

Thanks to Baba Brinkman, a Vancouver rap artist, for the above.

Sometimes, when I’m at work and looking at my portfolio, I think of my wife and how much I enjoy seeing her smile. And it makes me think of her in Paris, how right she seems in the City of Lights.  So, even though I planned on making a post about the TSX closing its [...]

Top Producer’s new real estate software newsletter is live and ready for prime time. For the sake of simplicity we’re using Wordpress to present content.
See it here:

Is it any wonder that the economy is where it is today, given that behaviour such as is revealed in this interview of Jim Cramer is considered reasonable, excusable, required. What’s more surprising is that the whole system wasn’t brought down by hedge funds much, much sooner. While Jim Cramer tries to justify cheating and [...]

Stocks slumped at the start of the Tuesday session like a driver suffering a heart attack at the wheel, and prices careened out of control for the next six hours until coming to rest in a ditch well below the critical 804 level of the S&P 500 that had held firm for two and a [...]

John Ralston Saul argues that Canada, rather than being born of the two solitudes (English & French), we are in fact a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by aboriginal ideas. This can be seen in our deeply held positions on egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and strong our leaning towards negotiation over violence. Saul argues these are all aboriginal values that Canada has absorbed through the last 250 years.

US stocks continue to fall. Yesterday saw across the board declines that capped the worst January on record: The Dow Jones declined 9%, while the S&P fell 8.8%, and the Nasdaq dropped 6.5%.
Common sense on the street dictates “As goes January, so goes the year”.  If that is the case, it’s going to be tough, [...]