Ryan Sims insights, thoughts, and analysis

Tag: canada

  • If It Ain’t Broke

    Where I grew up, it was common to hear someone remark ” If it ain’t broke – don’t fix it”. Great point, but I often wondered all of these years – what if it is broke? No one ever seemed to have an answer for that. No matter what your profession, your beliefs, you political…

  • A Different Lens

    This morning around 11:00 am my phone just started blowing up. And it didn’t stop. What the hell could be so important I wondered? Was Publishers CLearing House trying to get a hold of me to let me know I won 100 Million dollars? Sadly, that was not the case. Of course as most of…

  • Risky Business

    There are few occasions in history where a government getting involved helped. There are countless examples of times where the government getting involved completely fucked things up. It seems that government of today cannot help themselves. One of the least covered stories in the mortgage world seems to be the Canadian Housing Trust, and the…

  • The Teacher Becomes The Student

    Years ago, in the small town where I grew up, whenever someone did something very well for the first time, you might hear someone say ” the student has become the teacher”. Well, today, in Canada, I think that the ( drama ) teacher is about to become the student.  Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced the…

  • Threesome

    There has been much debate over the years about dual income households. Many will say that you should be able to raise a family on 1 income. I won’t weigh in on that topic. But, over all the debate on this topic in the last decade – we have missed out on 1 massive detail: We didn’t have just…