JoshKitagawa

The National Bank of Canada has recently announced that they are going to be cutting hundreds of jobs in an attempt to keep up with changing technology, and customer preferences in their current market. It simply is no longer cost efficient for the National Bank to have that number of employees.   In an attempt to keep up with the transition from traditional banking to online banking services, the National Bank needs to lighten up its work force. This cut will have an impact throughout the entire company as 2.3%…read more

Recently, controversy has arisen over Volkswagen after it admitted to cheating its diesel emission tests in the United States. The titan of the car industry has suffered a substantial blow to its stock as it made the announcement. The engines were fitted with computer software which allowed it to be able to sense when it was being tested so that it could use a secondary motor that was capable of passing. In reality, when the cars were being used for normal road use, they were emitting over 40 times the…read more

Coffee of tea? This is a common debate that has numerous supporters for either side. What if there could be a combination of both? A Kickstarter company named Wize Monkey has done just that. They have managed to infuse the worlds of coffee and tea consumers into one single product. Wise Monkey is a company based out of North Vancouver that strives to maximize profit, and to support coffee farmers in Nicaragua. Nicaragua’s biggest export is coffee.  However, the coffee bean can only be grown for three months of the year…read more