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I briefly talked about last week, so today I thought I would elaborate on that. I had the chance to speak with Delta's SVP-New York Gail Grimmett on what they've been doing. My biggest question was . . . what does it mean to "win" New York?

Even smart people make financial moves that are downright illogical. Emotions and superstitions have a sneaky way of keeping you from rational financial decisions. But dumb choices can have serious, real-world consequences. Here are some of the biggest blunders we all make, plus tips from the experts on how to keep cool.

That’s the question I’m left with today. The Americans are getting very close to passaing a health care bill. Thousands of pages long, addressing the multitude of system failures they have, yet those watching are left to wonder. Did they fix it?

With health insurance companies running strong in the stock market, it’s hard to believe that they’ve achieved any real change. The real answer to the question will likely only arise in sixth to twelve months. That’s when we’ll find out what they really did to health care in the United States.

Some of you may be curious as to why I even care about what the US does with its health care policies. Well for starters, I have some human compassion and the thought that so many go without in a country with so much is hard to accept. More directly though, our very own health care system is under siege by the very same influences that are destroying the system south of the border.

Canadian health care has reached a point where its sustainability is in question. Many would even say that it is already unsustainable given the massive bump of boomers starting to go through senior care systems. One quick and easy answer to that is to introduce privatized medicine where the rich will be able to pay to move them to the front of the line. That’s a real problem as it will ultimately divert/siphon resources from our public system. If the US had taken a strong stance on health care and committed to a more egalitarian system, it would have been hard to support the merits of a private system. As it stands, our debate will continue.

I only hope they’ve done something positive for their people.

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Have I told you yet about that funny, funny episode when I endeavoured to formally learn Mandarin a few years ago?

Vancouver, being the special city it is, commonly offers two flavours of introductory Mandarin classes. The first is that class where on day one, you learn basics like sounding out "bo po mo fo" and how to count; students start knowing nothing about the Chinese language. The second type of course is named something like "Introduction to Mandarin for Cantonese Speakers" where it is assumed you have a firm grasp of the Chinese because you are a "heritage student", as UBC puts it.1

Of course I was somewhat snooty about being able to take the latter course. After all, my mother made a lot of effort to teach me Chinese speaking, reading and writing with handmade flash cards and then she purchased volumes and volumes of bedtime stories and readers when we summered in Hong Kong. One of those summers, I even had a Beijing-trained Mandarin tutor for private lessons--and while I was a straight-A student back in Halifax, I was a shameful delinquent when it came to summer classes!2