In this interview, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, former Canadian Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, gives thoughtful, illuminating and thought-provoking responses with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley. Recently, the rebuilding work in…
In this interview, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, former Canadian Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, gives thoughtful, illuminating and thought-provoking responses with the CBC's Wendy Mesley.Recently, the rebuilding work in Haiti…
In this interview, the UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, former Canadian Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, gives thoughtful, illuminating and thought-provoking responses with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley. Recently, the rebuilding work in…
If you were counting on “peak oil” to curb our fossil fuel addiction, forget it. BP CEO Bob Dudley says the peak oil theory is “increasingly groundless.” It’s not that…
The death of Aaron Swartz, internet innovator and open data activist, has sent waves through political, hi-tech, and academic communities. Swartz – whose many accomplishments included writing the code that…
The death of Aaron Swartz, internet innovator and open data activist, has sent waves through political, hi-tech, and academic communities. Swartz - whose many accomplishments included writing the code that…
The death of Aaron Swartz, internet innovator and open data activist, has sent waves through political, hi-tech, and academic communities. Swartz – whose many accomplishments included writing the code that…
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Idle No More raises questions about both the past and future of Canada itself. It goes to the reality that we are a nation with a…
The climate alarm is sounding more loudly than ever in these early days of 2013. Climate change, we are finding out, isn’t something for our children and grandchildren and the…
The outgoing director of the U.S. Geological Survey says Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that cities along America’s eastern seaboard are now sitting ducks. Marcia McNutt, who last week announced her resignation…
We are going to have to accept substantially higher costs for liquid-carbon fuel. There are some uses, such as aviation, that just don’t suit alternative energy options, at least not…
Slavery, we were taught, was ended in America by Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Southern blacks continued to suffer persecution of almost any sort for decades afterwards but at…
Canadians are hardly living up to their reputation for complacency. Coming hard on the heels of the ‘maple spring’ in Québec and the earlier Occupy movements across the country, and…
Every time you open your high-priced telecom bills, think about how the government still doesn’t have a plan for an affordable, accessible digital future. Help shape that future, and tell…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Bill Curry reports on what looks like a thoroughly warped view of the role of the Minister of Justice and Parliament in assessing…
This is brilliant. Take the statements of two individuals who haven’t talked together about anything, string it all up, and claim that they’ve “left the door open” to something. Like…
Yuli Turovsky, a Russian-born cellist, who adopted Montreal as his home, has died at 73. He was one of the generation of classical musicians who left the Soviet Union as…
… and the op ed page as ignorance. The headline on p.1 of NewsToday reads, “Democracy urged in Mali.” Now there’s a headline that tells us close to nothing –…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, January 16, 2013: Can an Employer Prohibit Tatoos and Piercings? British court rules Christian employee’s right to…
As in, they lose the personal information of Canadians over and over again. As one of this country’s many student loan borrowers, now they may have lost mine. I’ll keep…
