By Maurice Walch I spend most of my professional time engineering plans for my clients to assist them in achieving their financial objectives so they can maintain their lifestyle in retirement. But what defines a successful retirement? As a planner I get the opportunity to watch hundreds of people retire. While financially they have all…
By Igor Yusufov Igor Yusufov is an electrical engineer with more than 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. He was deputy chair of the Russian Federation Economic Security Committee and deputy industry minister, chair of the Russian States Reserves Committee, and later general director of the Russian State Reserves Agency. He led…
By Scott Jeffrey When I was a teenager growing up in Saskatchewan, I never heard the joke. It was only when I moved to Calgary in 1972 that I hear the joke, and many more besides. I didn’t even know there were Saskatchewan jokes until I moved away. I then discovered that people from Saskatchewan…
By Heather Douglas “’Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English … Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. I don’t much care…
Welcome to Global Cooling and the (Future) Renaissance of Fossil Fuels By Heather Douglas “Global warming has been an inescapable issue for our age. But 180 years ago, most scientists believed the Earth had been steadily cooling since it was formed. When Louis Agassiz presented the concept of a Great Ice Age to the Swiss…
Technology Meets John Gauntels By Maurice Walch In 1662 John Gaunt, a haberdasher in London England, used statistics to create the first mortality tables. These tables ultimately formed the basis of future statistical works that life insurance companies use today to calculate insurance premiums. Over the past 350 years mortality tables have changed as living…
