where are montreal speed cameras

They are here

Red is red light camera, blue speed, yellow mobile

And really...who cares? At least speed cameras don't apply the law at random, I am surprised Quebec has been so slow to take advantage of this free money, walk down sherbrooke at rush hour and no-one respects the red lights, and what is the big deal with slowing down near schools? Fuss about nothing, bring it on...

Get on yer Bixi, montreal bike rental scheme

I think I am not alone in thinking this is a complete waste of time and as there are 300 stations I'd say that's 600 parking spaces wasted.

Bixi is the new Montreal bike renting scam whereby you can be lumbered with a rubbish bike at $250 liability to you and 30 minutes are free and its $80 a year plus no doubt deductible tax (so why charge it morans?)

Don't get me wrong I'm all for less cars but just buy a bike from Canadian Tire and create some real jobs, they cost $100 (plus non-deductible tax......go figure) and it's really cool you can lock it up wherever you like and even take it home and the first 3 years is FREE.

The stupidity of it makes me want to kick the spokes in, but that would be childish...I can't believe the Observer didn't sack their monkey of a journalist for making them pay her to come here and write a pile of crap about how good it is. It's the same scheme they had in Paris some years ago.

I understand it is a private scheme so they better not have used one $ of my tax to pay for this lunacy, or else I'll swear a lot.

Modified Corn Syrup, Fructose-Glucose, high fructose corn syrup

Well in canada it is called Fructose-glucose or something

there is a large body of evidence that it not only is bad for you but it actually stimulates fat deposition.

I'd say steer clear if you are a little 'well-built'

see all this:
http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=966
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/139/6/1257S

The lengths they go to to avoid paying out our pensions...

Family Doctor Scam

So I finally figured it out. They give you a doctor but then you can never get to see them, they just keep postponing the appointment. I have been waiting since the begining of september and they have postponed the appointment three times. Others I have spoken to have experienced the same thing at other clinics. So thanks to the overpaid twerp of a public 'servant' who thought that crap up, nice way of dealing with the problem, thanks....

Gold trading live calls

I have been playing at gold trading on and off for some years and am now live with real beer tokens. I am posting my trades in the comments section of this post. This last week has been pretty good, around 40% profit. I am using an oanda account geared at 10:1, so I'm buying an ounce of gold for about $100 and make $10-15 per trade. I can't share my trading system because I'm not sure I understand it. Most trading systems can work as long as you have covered the what if I lose scenario..Most people don't like to think about that...and when I say most people I mean you, me, citibank, lloyds, bank of scotland and other amateurs. Anyway what with the ups and downs of the world there's money to be had. Of course this is not a recommendation to trade and my trades are as a record to myself only so I can analyse performance. I would not encourage anyone to follow what I do, but they're there if anyone has any feedback on the performance etc..

Costco cashback

So afer a year I got $200 back from Costco and $250 from the Costco Amex (see money for nothing post) which is about a month of 'free' groceries.  I use the Amex all the time when I can.

I guess it almost makes up for having to visit the 7th level of hell once a fortnight and having a feeezer full of frozen pork or whatever I can't eat from the $20 megapack...

My additional challenge is to get a free lunch there, the pizza samples are OK but it cracks me up seeing grown men and women queuing up to try a 1 inch square of mmmmmmm bread and  butter or AN olive, you have to be discerning and take like 5 samples of the good stuff and come round and do it again...

flock of crows

This has nothing to do with money but has anyone else seen thousands of crows flying at night around Park King George?  I am sure I'm not imagining it, every now and then there are swarms of them at night

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They are quite eerie but somehow beautiful to see as long as you don't think about the film...

When I saw them people were nearly crashing the car as they were driving around looking up out the windows..

The trees were black with them, pretty cool..