It's a little disappointing to see these guys restructure and then to see them out of the blue announce a 34-percent increase in fuel prices which came as a total shock to them and threw them into a C$100-million loss. It was a little unfortunate.

We are going to see a down opening as the oils continue to soften. That is just the overriding theme these days. We are just focused on the spot price of crude.

These jobs numbers look a little healthier than first anticipated, so that will probably bode well a little bit for Canada.

Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.