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Hope everyone had a great weekend.  We had our niece over to our house for a “Covid style” graduation party on Saturday.  Not high in terms of scale of loss, but kind of an anticlimactic way to finish off high school this year and I thought Victoria would have been disappointed to miss out on a traditional […]

We really are living through history

June 8, 2020

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Happy Monday!  Hope everyone had a good weekend and is adapting to phase 2 of the reopening of our province!   I was happy to have some friends over this weekend for the first time in two months, but it is going to take some time to readjust to being social.  Sometime around 11pm my body was telling […]

Covid curve is flattening

May 25, 2020

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there!  Hope everyone had a great weekend and found a way to get out there and enjoy the amazing weather. We hosted successive barbeques at our home this weekend for my mother and mother in law. It is purely anecdotal, but for all the talk of protecting […]

Happy Mother’s Day!

May 11, 2020

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Hope everyone is healthy, and happily adapted to quarantine life!   I have to admit that despite the fact that Spring is in the air, I am nervous.  “Sell in May and go away” is an old stock market adage rooted in the fact that the first 4 months of the year are historically stronger than the […]

Economists – shaking the dice?

May 4, 2020

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Hope you had a good weekend and are finding your quarantine rhythm in these crazy times!   I have genuinely enjoyed some things that have developed as a result of this pandemic, chief amongst them is the fact that I am now in control of my own schedule.  The only trouble with that is now I don’t […]

Time to be patient

April 28, 2020

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Hi Everyone, I hope you are all healthy and finding their new “normal” in these unprecedented times.  As we go through this historic period where we have no context for the crisis and no precedent for understanding what challenges may come ahead, I feel somewhat guilty from the fact that I am completely fascinated by […]

Don’t react, respond!

April 20, 2020

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Happy Easter!  Hope everyone is healthy and finding ways to live and thrive in a Covid-19 dominated world.  Hard to believe how much things have changed in a month and the paradigm shift is jarring.  We’ve gone from a world constantly on the move, globally connected and busier & more crowded than it has ever been, to one […]

“ Price is what you pay, value is what you get ”

April 13, 2020

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“May you live in interesting times” is purported to be the English translation of a Chinese curse. While I am not really sure if that is true or not, I can definitely understand how that rumour could have started as we continue to make our way through one of the scariest and most fascinating time […]

Board Games, Tiger King and Markets, Oh my!

April 6, 2020

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Hi Everyone, Hope everyone is healthy and safe.  If this social isolation has confirmed anything for me, it is that I am definitely an introvert.  Staying home, being with family, lots of time to read, with the odd hike or mountain bike ride on the local trails on our mountains is not a burden for me at […]

Treat this as an opportunity rather than a crisis

March 30, 2020

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Greetings, More than ever in these stressful times I am hoping you and your family are well.   It is crazy how much more real a “global” event feels when it starts to impact us locally.  We heard the words “global pandemic”, saw what’s happening in China and Italy and the reaction in stock markets […]

Markets gripped with uncertainty

March 23, 2020

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