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The airline industry
December 30, 2009, 3 Comments

Virgin: the world’s best passenger complaint letter? Here we reproduce a complaint letter sent to Sir Richard Bran ...

Wednesday Night #1451
December 23, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1451

  The outcome of the Copenhagen conference, although disappointing, was certainly predictable.  To be valid and enforc ...

UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (Copenhagen)
December 19, 2009, Comments Off on UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (Copenhagen)

Reuters FACTBOX: Who Is Going To Copenhagen? UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Host country site) Telegraph U.K ...

Wednesday Night #1450
December 16, 2009, 1 Comment

Climate Change There are those who describe a disaster scenario depicting the virtual end of life on earth unless carbon ...

West Wing Wednesday Night #21
December 15, 2009, Comments Off on West Wing Wednesday Night #21

Fresh from our relaxing holiday trip to Providenciales, TCI, (where MacDonald’s has not made it!), we are ready fo ...

U.S. economy 2009
December 14, 2009, 2 Comments

NYT  Financial crisis one year later ;  Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit: The Man Who ...

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
December 10, 2009, 1 Comment

Like the rest of the world, when we woke to the news, we were astonished, and while we believe that the Nobel committee ...

Wednesday Night #1449
December 9, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1449

Reminder: Although relatively little has been done to publicize the event, we draw your attention to the presence of the ...

Wednesday Night #1448
December 2, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1448

Special thanks to Margaret Duthie for assiduous note-taking It seems that almost every week, we celebrate another achiev ...

Canada: economy 2009
December 2, 2009, 1 Comment

Jeff Rubin blog Bombardier layoffs reduced after it agrees to job-sharing with union More than 100 Bombardier Aerospace ...

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