The flow of data both within Canada and outside of Canada has been firmer than I would have expected, with a couple of exceptions.

If the Fed continues to tighten more than we expect, the (more) likely it is that the Bank of Canada would also be tightening more than we expect.

Low inflation contributes to the solid performance in Canada’s bond market. It is certainly something bond investors always want to see.

If we started to see above-potential growth, that would certainly be something the bank would be concerned about. It makes sense while the opportunity is available to start to bring those rates up a little...

Space is a non-forgiving environment, particularly during EVA. We accept some risks, as we do with every launch, because we know the benefits.

You wouldn’t want to see much stronger employment growth without a big gain in the labor force.

add greater clarity and specificity to rules we already know but weren’t as clear.

There’s every reason to think this will be a successful mission. The Chinese are good at rocketry.

Don’t eat the lasagna the night you land, … And that hot shower, don’t make it a long one. It’s a little hard to stand up, especially when you’re washing your hair and your head...

It really comes down, more than anything else, to ‘do you have a job?’ and ‘are you confident about keeping your job?’. If the answer to both of those are ‘yes’ then consumer confidence is...

What if we’re seeing the stirrings of ‘Dutch disease’, whereby windfall gains from commodity industries push up the currency so as to squeeze activity in more productive sectors like manufacturing?

From an economic and a market point of view, this was never likely to be a real kind of environment-changer – and hasn’t been.

Stronger and stronger evidence of climate change is upon us. Nature’s calendar is responding to the warming.

Part of that may be the fact that there is speculation out there that this may curb the Fed’s enthusiasm for tightening somewhat, either short or longer term.

We see some upside risk to the third quarter and further out balances on the back of energy (particularly natural gas) prices, which continue to sustain themselves at elevated levels.

Weaker results would tend to improve expectations that there’s not much if any tightening to come.

If oil prices and gold prices go down, the Canadian dollar will go with them.

This feels great, … Feels like you’re having a little gravity storm down here.

Disney has a business model predicated on the widest possible exposure of its media properties to drive attendance at its theme parks and purchases of home video and licensed products. Without broad, consistent local distribution...

The opportunity to see life they way one of one of our greatest Southern artists actually lived it is just extraordinary.

It’s seen as the foreigners way of taking money out of the country without necessarily building factories or other obvious ways of adding value to the economy.

Earth’s a great place, and that’s where our life is, … And it’s time to get on with it.

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn’t been taking it worse than it has,

If the provinces’ budgets get a little better and the federal budget a little worse, it can only be good for provincial bonds.

I don’t think it’s going to have an overly material affect on consumer spending to the upside – but every little (bit) helps.

As soon as we can get processed through, we’re going to show up out there,

I like long-duration space flight and hope my boss will let me do it again, … I think the age of the true professional astronaut and cosmonaut has come.

Was he a great genius? Was he an eccentric? Was he someone who was trying to raise his consciousness in a way people can’t even imagine? He was on his own path and everybody gets...

Earthworks Entertainment are credible people in the entertainment industry and have had a number of successes, … We want to work together and figure out how to bring the Big Dog character to life through...

For current media outlets, this is nothing more than a restating of the rules,

You cannot stop piracy if you don’t provide legitimate channels, … as if all of L.A. had only one multiplex.

That fearlessness of going against anything drew me to the project. Because it’s the same type of thing. How do you start a project like this from scratch? Two guys and a camera.

I think it’s going to have even more intense scrutiny than usual from markets.

But you’ve got to solve this as a business issue. The preaching doesn’t register here.

Americans like to look at the Internet as a frontier. Chinese prefer to look at it as a fenced field. Where it is productive, you may roam; where there is danger, you may not.

I seriously wonder if he would go to a premier of a movie about his life because he would have other things to do. He was not into the pomp and circumstance of celebrity or...

They’ve left this hole open for so long that there’s an increasingly legitimate market for these pirate products,

not even to the legal adviser.

These people really weren’t getting credit for their work.

It’s hard for anything that will come out of Capitol Hill to make speech any freer in China.

Idealism is what precedes experience, cynicism is what follows.

You’re just making difficulties and problems all the time. Isn’t your continued work in the civil service important to you? After all, you won’t be able to continue working with us this way. Don’t you...