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

View Larger Map

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..

See Doctor Today

So another recent find was the McGill Sports clinic. If you are physically injured and say it was sport or exercise related you can see a doctor very fast here.

(514) 398-7000

http://athletics.mcgill.ca/sportsmed_home.ch2

It is not free and McGill people get it on insurance apparently but it is quick and if you are in pain maybe $50 is worth paying....basically they offer lots of physio after check-up by doctor.

It is open to the public.

Dying for the snow to go away, fatal 'accidents' an annual event.

Well I warn visitors to Montreal that the snow removal people are total cowboys who are irresponsible at best and darn right aggressive at worst. I have to dig out press clippings to prove that they kill someone every winter and after visitors have had the pleasure of some prick ing a mini snow tractor AT them at 60 km/h., they soon realise that snow clearance is best avoided if you'd like to live.

Well this winter they surpass themselves, 4 dead and 3 more months to go. It is pretty clear what that limp dicked mayor needs to do but of course he'll do nothing, because what's a few dead when there are private drives to be cleared...

They even have the nerve to give us instructions on how to assist them. My only interactions with them have shown them to be rude, agressive and ignorant, so I say do what you can to piss them off, like hit the emrgency off button, throw snowballs at them and drive really slowly in front of them..Mind you they might kill you for daring to inconvenience these overpaid morons.

Talking of pavement clearance I want point out that the quality of it depends on where you live. Westmount is a pleasure to go running in on clear ice and snow free pavements and NDG has a 5 inch thick layer of perma-ice welded to the pavement. I am sure if those lazy buggers tried clearing it instead of trying to beat the land speed record for minitractor racing then we could do crazy shit like go for a walk. Perhaps they should be paid on square feet of clear pavement, then they's be pretty cheap. Oh, hang on these are the guys who smashed the windows of the homes of councillors who tried to sue them for not doing their jobs properly about 4 years back...Errr..Sorry then I meant great job, worth every thousand of those reasobale city taxes.