During this Happy Holiday season, I want to thank you for your readership! Investorial started as a forum for my rants and reactions to investment / financial media out there, who’d have thought people would want to read them? I’m very humbled by that fact. I’m even more grateful for being able to forge relationships with bloggers out there such as Canadian Capitalist, InvestorGeeks, and AOL Blogging Stocks. Merry Christmas to you!
What about my gift? Like Charlie Brown, I don’t have much to offer. But please believe that my wish …

Investorial is my un-imaginative amalgamation of “investments” and “editorials”. You may or may not enjoy my ramblings about “the good, the bad, the ugly” in the investement / financial media. I have also been trying to carve out new dimensions in my financial writing. I’m currently a blogger with two financial blogging networks - InvestorGeeks and AOL Blogging Stocks. I thought I’d share with you a few of my posts elsewhere. I won’t claim they are “good”, but I don’t think they are “bad” and hopefully they’re not “ugly”!
InvestorGeeks
I approached …

Timmins may not be a city you have heard of. If this northern ontario town sounds familiar, you just might be a Shania Twain fan. Not only is the city with the heart of gold Shania’s hometown, it’s also a commonality between Frank Mahovlich (NHL hockey player, Canadian senator), Stompin’ Tom Connors (musician, songwriter), Steve Sullivan (NHL hockey player) and myself. I proudly called Timmins my hometown ever since my family immigrated to Canada when I was age 11. On my recent trip, I was suprised by a few changes …

Reading blogs have been a great way for me to see different perspectivies. But there are some perspectives that I’d have rather not witnessed. It’s like those television shows that you watch; and then realizing that it has robbed you of precious time that you will never get back.
I don’t think I’ve ever pointed out someone so succintly in the personal finance / investment blogs universe yet, but after reading the numerous rantings of Sheldon Liber on Blogging Stocks, banging my head against a brick wall would be a preferrable …

We all know Google for the information blackhole that it wants to be. Google sucks up all indexable knowledge from webpages, books, videos, your desktop and whatever media / database that it can get its hands on. However, Google is also the company who while claiming to “do no evil”, willingly censors information in order to break into the China markets. You can see what I mean by searching for “tiananmen” in Google Images here and its China counterpart here.
I’m not here to argue whether Google is a saint or …

This year, there are several additional (financial) reasons other than national pride to be jubilant on Canada day. For some, the changes are welcomed, for others it might just be another way for the government to stick it to you. July 1st, 2006 is the day where several alterations to the tax rules are changing for Canadians! Here’s a run-down of some of the more popular that we’ve been looking forward to, eh?
GST Reduction
The federal government is reducing the Goods and Services tax by 1% to 6%. However, …

If you are a regular Investorial reader, you may already have notice the new layout design. I spent the whole day creating this design on my PC and finally felt it was ready to be ported to the site.
I was acutely aware that visitors using Internet Explorer 6 were having difficulties with the stylesheet I was using in the last design (shown in picture). I hope this version will remedy those issues. I really do like this design better. A little house cleaning was needed to throw away some unnecessary …