John Laforet: Is 2013 Going To Be The Year of Three Premiers?
Dalton McGuinty has announced his intention to resign as Premier, once the Ontario Liberal Party chooses a successor for him, which is expected to happen at the end of January.…
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My Day in Montreal
I’m sitting in the airport in Montreal and thought I would share a bit about my day as we wait to board. The reason it took sixteen calls to get…
16th Time Was The Try For Finding a Hotel Room in Montreal Last Night
Has your significant other ever asked you if you could go somewhere for the weekend or even the day and you make the commitment to do it, before working out…
Did You Know 95% of Blogs Are Abandoned?
This one was for nearly a year, until today! I started blogging on my personal website http://laforet.ca in June 2008, but for a variety of reasons stopped in September 2011,…
An interlude
Just a reminder that the people who brought us to war in Iraq are absolute monsters. The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons…
An interlude
Just a reminder that the people who brought us to war in Iraq are absolute monsters.The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme…
An interlude
Just a reminder that the people who brought us to war in Iraq are absolute monsters. The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons…
An interlude
Just a reminder that the people who brought us to war in Iraq are absolute monsters.The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons programme…
China’s changing frontier?
(Holy hell, new content on the blog! What’s it been, like a decade?) Two data points from the last week or so. First, this long article in Tehelka about China’s…
China’s changing frontier?
(Holy hell, new content on the blog! What's it been, like a decade?)Two data points from the last week or so. First, this long article in Tehelka about China's military…
China’s changing frontier?
(Holy hell, new content on the blog! What’s it been, like a decade?) Two data points from the last week or so. First, this long article in Tehelka about China’s…
China’s changing frontier?
(Holy hell, new content on the blog! What's it been, like a decade?)Two data points from the last week or so. First, this long article in Tehelka about China's military…
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here!
The title of an academic paper: “Financial Economists, Financial Interests and Dark Corners of the Meltdown: It’s Time to set Ethical Standards for the Economics Profession” Yes, after almost 250…
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here!
The title of an academic paper: “Financial Economists, Financial Interests and Dark Corners of the Meltdown: It’s Time to set Ethical Standards for the Economics Profession”Yes, after almost 250 years…
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here!
The title of an academic paper: “Financial Economists, Financial Interests and Dark Corners of the Meltdown: It’s Time to set Ethical Standards for the Economics Profession” Yes, after almost 250…
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here!
The title of an academic paper: “Financial Economists, Financial Interests and Dark Corners of the Meltdown: It’s Time to set Ethical Standards for the Economics Profession”Yes, after almost 250 years…
E-voting without worrying
There are some TED talks that are simply impossible to not finish once you start them, where the speaker is so engrossing that when the video ends you feel like…
E-voting without worrying
There are some TED talks that are simply impossible to not finish once you start them, where the speaker is so engrossing that when the video ends you feel like…
E-voting without worrying
There are some TED talks that are simply impossible to not finish once you start them, where the speaker is so engrossing that when the video ends you feel like…
E-voting without worrying
There are some TED talks that are simply impossible to not finish once you start them, where the speaker is so engrossing that when the video ends you feel like…