I don’t mind spending money but I really really hate to waste it. This past week, I wrote a column on third party payments and how much easier it is to spend other people’s money than it is our own. It was inspired by a conference that was paid for by the taxpayer that I [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Homelessness and mental illness
As a young student in CEGEP (in Quebec, we replace the last year of high school and the first of university with an intermediate general college system called CEGEPs), I took a course called Poverty in Montreal. I thought it was a joke at first. I had grown up watching starving children in Biafra with [...]
