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Core earnings: Is new metric misleading?

Brian Milner, a journalist at the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business, picked up on our blog post on core earnings and cited it in this article this morning.

Throwing out water quality data

With real time measurements, exception reports are often the most useful indicator. This seems to have been forgotten by one government water quality inspector.



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