Westcoast Voice

Taking a break.  Hope you enjoyed the 150 blogs posted over the last 10 months.

Elections in separatist East Ukraine last Sunday appear to have elected 2 new leaders to the European scene.  One, Alexander Zakharchenko a...

From 2001 to 2011, the burger giant's income almost doubled and profit almost tripled.  Ah, but how the mighty have fallen.  The busine...

Like a red flag taunting a bull, Russian jet fighters, bombers and tankers flew over the Atlantic Ocean, North Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Se...

The Ontario and British Columbia Law Societies here in Canada have banned graduates from Trinity Western University's Law School from b...

Last Sunday (Oct. 26th)  Ukrainians voted in a Parliamentary election.  It was a landslide in favour of closer political and economic ties ...

Sitting on top of the world, the Arctic has become an enormous strategic and economic prize for all 5 countries that circle this vast ocean...

Chlorine gas was first unleashed in World War I and quickly spread fear and terror among unsuspecting allied soldiers.  Three years into th...

Islamic State fighters in Kobani  on the Turkish border,  face a new breed of women - female warriors in the Kurdish Defence Force.  These ...

Canadians working in the U.S. are  looking for Canadian airlines' direct flights to return home for visits, rather than taking an Ameri...

                               Headlines scream "Markets Tumble",  "Recession Looms",  "Recovery Falters".  P...

How far can you be pushed before you fight back?  In Hong Kong, pro-democracy student protesters have been pushed to the limit by a police ...

I've often written about the incentives that governments use to attract multinational corporations to "domicile"  in their ho...

Most of us are familiar with the slaughter of "infidels"  by the jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS).  Behe...

If anybody out there understands how quantitative easing (Q.E.)  benefits a country, please let me know.  Call me old-fashioned but I was t...

No war was ever won by air power alone.  With no professional ground forces to root out ISIS street by street, the U.S. led coalition is fi...

After almost 2 weeks of protests, Hong Kong students and democracy supporters are weary and doubtful of any compromise from Beijing.  Clear...

This week, Virgin Money, a tiny British bank announced plans to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange.  Entrepreneur, Richard Branson us...

One of the best measures of economic growth is Median Household Income.  This is simply a snapshot of the real wages or salaries earned by ...

Deep in a forest near Estonia's capital city Tallinn, a dozen young recruits crawl through the mud, dragging kits and rifles beside the...

Over the last 17 years, China has slowly tightened its grip on Hong Kong through media control and political restrictions.  These moves wer...

Many investors in the Western world are reluctant to put their savings or retirement money into emerging markets for a variety of reasons -...

Twenty years ago, McDonald's was looking for an advertisement that would appeal world-wide.  An agency came up with the familiar "...

Barack Obama made it clear that he would only authorize airstrikes against Islamic State (IS)  in Syria if other allies in the region joine...

The man behind the VIRGIN brand was chosen top entrepreneur by Britain's most important business leaders.  Branson, with his usual pana...

For the last 15 years, Japan's economy has remained dormant.  But in December, 2012, the country elected Shinzo Abe to lead them into a...

In my blog "Alibaba Storms Wall St."  Sept 8th, I described how entrepreneur Jack Ma built China's  largest e-commerce compan...

The question was simple:  "Should Scotland be an independent country?"  The voter turnout was phenomenal:  84%.  The answer was ...

The real dilemma for Ukrainian sovereignty is the simple fact that the population is not homogeneous.  Ninety per cent of the people see th...

India's newly elected Prime Minister Naendra Modi is taking a page from China's playbook to get India back on its feet after 3 year...

Ah socialism - the utopian dream for social justice and equality.  Take Venezuela for example.  When Hugo Chavez took power in 1999, he pro...

Is a "dollar"  store no longer a dollar store when its price point goes over one dollar?  Not according to Dollarama Inc., Canada...

On Wednesday night, President Obama reluctantly but effectively declared war on the Islamic State.  Gruesome beheadings broadcast around th...

Mario Draghi, President of the European Central bank, cut the key borrowing rate from .15% to .05% in an effort to spark economic growth.  ...

Ah Lassies and Laddies   -You've got a lot of weight on your shoulders.  For the first time since the Act of Union created the United K...