Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minRegaining my true pathWhen I was eighteen all I wanted to do was draw cartoons and be a photographer. Few other things interested me with the exception of...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minGreedflation... the illegitimate child of immoral capitalismForget about shrinkflation, slumpflation, stagflation, good old regular inflation, or any other “flation.” What’s occurring around the...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minStock Odds - creating horseracing wager style odds for stocks.Most of us have been to a horseracing track or seen a race on TV. Wagering at these races is based on an odds system, the underpinnings...
Eric F.-X. Perrault5 minShowbiz in a snowstorm At around 24, I worked on various projects after leaving my job as assistant advertising manager at Atlas Copco Canada. I also lived with...
Eric F.-X. Perrault3 minThe magazine mutinyBack in the late eighties, magazines, real ones printed on actual paper, were entering their last great decade of popularity. City...
Eric F.-X. Perrault3 minThe big knife versus my little thumbMy father had the habit of taking me to the woods from an early age. Six years old, to be precise. Back then, one didn’t have to drive...
Eric F.-X. Perrault3 minMother leaves me on my thirteenth birthday.My birthday falls on the same day as that of my mother and my maternal grandmother, which someone once told me the odds were quite long...
Eric F.-X. Perrault3 minMy first paying jobLike so many others, my first job was a summer job. As I was heavily interested in photography, I would go to Simon’s Cameras, Montreal’s...
Eric F.-X. Perrault3 minSupermarkets automating unemploymentThe devastating effects of self-serve check-out systems at supermarkets. I occasionally take a few minutes after doing my weekly...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minMy father, International Harvester and Kosher ChickensFor the last 20 or so years of his working life, my dad sold trucks. Big trucks. Big International Harvester trucks to be specific. In...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minThe nine-year-old hockey reporterWhen I was nine years old and my folks had been divorced for a few years, my mother and I lived in an old apartment building on Gatineau...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minMy first of 600,000 cigarettesThe year was 1967 when Montreal was host to Expo 67, the international world fair. I was thirteen, and both my father and mother smoked...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minMy final little universeI've spent a lifetime of work in marketing communications and publishing, traveling, clubbing, concerts, fine wining and dining, outdoor...
Eric F.-X. Perrault3 minMy (simple) horseracing wagering systemLet me start by stating that there is no guaranteed system when it comes to wagering on horse racing. Betting on horse racing can be...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minPunishing the profiteering petrol pump.Everyone knows the gas-powered automobile has heard its death knell loud and clear. So the oil companies are staging a full-frontal...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minThat big lake troutA few times a year, back in the eighties, we’d all go down for family gatherings of various sizes to the Howard family camp at Breeches...
Eric F.-X. Perrault3 minThe anchorMy dad was a very stern individual. Once in the great outdoors though he relaxed a bit but remained a strict man. As I grew into my late...
Eric F.-X. Perrault3 minGrousing along the Notawissi riverBack starting in the nineteen sixties my father and I would religiously go fishing and hunting for 5 to 6 weeks starting in early August...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minKaboom... or when I nearly blew my face off.Back in the sixties, in cases of separation, custody was given to the mother. That continues to a large extent today, from what I...
Eric F.-X. Perrault2 minIs American finally imploding?21 things a truly decent America mustn't do. Let corporations, their lobbyists, and the government officials they flagrantly own,...