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PC: "Well, well, look at Microsoft's stock soar." Mac: "Big deal. Your operating system still sucks." PC: "Actually, Windows 7 is a hit. And our quarterly results blew past expectations." Mac: "Yeah, well, I still get more action than you." PC: "That's not what your girlfriend tells me..." |
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The dollar is soaring to parity! No, wait, the dollar is plunging! Proving once again that nobody really has the faintest clue what the Canadian dollar will do from one day to the next, the loonie hit a brick wall this week after Bank of Canada boss Mark Carney declared war on currency speculators. Put your credit card away - the cross-border shopping trip has been cancelled. |
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Finally, a device you can take anywhere to read your favourite works of fiction and non-fiction: No, not a book, stupid. It's Amazon.com's Kindle. With sales of the wireless reading gadget leading the way, the world's largest Internet retailer said revenue and profit surged past expectations in the third quarter, helped by strong demand for CDs, DVDs - and those old-fashioned book thingys. |
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Signs you're eating too often at McDonald's : 1) Can't see out of the windshield of your car for all the wrappers; 2) Constant passing of wind and/or lack of invites to social gatherings; 3) Repeated heart attacks. Still, plenty of folks are heading to Mickey D's on a regular basis, judging by the fast-food chain's 6-per-cent rise in third-quarter profit. The stock's got the wind at its back. |
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Canada's solution for securing a prosperous future: Sell everything to the highest bidder! Marking its largest foreign energy purchase, state-owned Korean National Oil agreed to pay $1.8-billion for Harvest Energy , less than two months after PetroChina shelled out $1.9-billion for a majority stake in two Athabasca Oil Sands projects. They like us, they really like us! |
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John Heinzl