Bill Curry reports in today’s Globe that, at last year’s economic policy retreat, business leaders urged Finance Minister Flaherty to reduce the pay of “overpriced” Canadian workers, including through anti…
I have always felt that the choice of Kitimat BC (which lies at the end of a long narrow fjord) as the destination for the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline was…
Okay, I guess I need to preface this post about the recall of infant chairs by reminding you that all parents are psychotic. All of us. First, we decide to…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sum Of Us deserves plenty of credit for highlighting Enbridge’s attempt to delete a thousand square kilometers of treacherous and sensitive islands…
Good news Everyone! Only two per cent of Canadians who responded to a new opinion poll believed climate change is not occurring. A further nine per cent believed climate change…
Bad Blood, a documentary film about the ban on blood donations from gay men, looks like it’s well worth checking out. Although I have to wonder… If Canadian Blood Services…
via Tree Lobsters!” I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine who are the zombies
I’m actually writing this on the night of August 15 because I had an interesting note from a reader. (You can check it at the end of the column for…
This letter is for journalist David Akin, whose work is uncommonly good but who also takes issue with me. First of all, yes, Sixth Estate is anonymous. (Technically, because people…
Here, on how the Canadian Medical Association’s new focus on inequality and the social determinants of health may be nicely timed to shape Canada’s political future. For further reading…– Some…
Earlier this Summer I blogged about what providing open access to public data could do for urban sustainability. Since then New York held its first green hackathon, and Montreal is…
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After the carnage of three weeks ago (reported here) things have been looking up, albeit frustratingly slowly. A follow up hospital visit discovered fluids had pooled in one lung so…
After the carnage of three weeks ago (reported here) things have been looking up, albeit frustratingly slowly. A follow up hospital visit discovered fluids had pooled in one lung so…
After the carnage of three weeks ago (reported here) things have been looking up, albeit frustratingly slowly. A follow up hospital visit discovered fluids had pooled in one lung so…
After the carnage of three weeks ago (reported here) things have been looking up, albeit frustratingly slowly. A follow up hospital visit discovered fluids had pooled in one lung so…
Earlier today, Britain said it might revoke Ecuador’s diplomatic status and stage an assault on the embassy to get Julian Assange out. (link) This is over an extradition request by…
The Globe and Mail reports this morning that: For two days every summer, a select group of CEOs, other business leaders, and policy experts is invited to a retreat with…
