that McDonald’s is a rabidly anti-union company – but one of their Montreal locations has been given the green light to organize. This is the third time in Montreal a McDonalds has gotten this close – both other times the franchisee closed the business rather than accept a union among its employees.
Archives for 2000
This week marks
the opening of Nasdaq Canada, based right here in Montreal. I’ve heard and read a lot about it on the news, but I still can’t quite figure out what it’s going to be. I’m not sure that Nasdaq knows – will it just be a branch plant, a satellite trading floor? Or will it become a spin-off that companies can join like any other stock market?
Now I have
When I got home
from the office tonight I decided to rearrange some shelves and came across my favourite article ever from good old Wired Mag: Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson. Basically it was a really long story about a cable; an undersea cable. Stephenson described it like so: “FLAG, a fiber-optic cable now being built from England to Japan, is a skinny little cuss (about an inch in diameter), but it is 28,000 kilometers long, which is long even compared to really big things like the planet Earth. When it is finished in September 1997, it arguably will be the longest engineering project in history.”
Steven Johnson weighs
in on the election two weeks hence: “[…] after all of this, there will be only one indisputable fact about the Florida vote: The margin of error was larger than the margin of victory.”
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