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Draft Discussion Document on Quebec Universities
May 23, 2013, 1 Comment

Among adults aged 55 to 64, Canada ranks fourth in the OECD, but by 2010, university attainment rates for the 25 to 34 a ...

Aid, Development and Progress 2012-2013
March 29, 2013, Comments Off on Aid, Development and Progress 2012-2013

OECD and the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation Annals of development — Dangerous delusions ...

Peter Trent launches Merger book
March 6, 2013, 2 Comments

Write-up and photos of Politics and the Pen awards dinner A preview of the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing ...

Airships, Aviation and the Environment
February 18, 2013, 1 Comment

See also Aviation & Shipping Emissions and Wednesday-Night.com Déjà vu all over again – whatever happened to ...

Wednesday Night #1614
February 6, 2013, 1 Comment

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college educatio ...

Haiti: after the earthquake
January 13, 2013, Comments Off on Haiti: after the earthquake

KANPE means “Stand Up” in Haitian Creole, and, as the name suggests, the bulk of the organisation’s initiatives an ...

Higgs bosun
January 1, 2013, Comments Off on Higgs bosun

Higgs boson was just a start for Cern’s atom smasher – other mysteries await The Large Hadron Collider will shut ...

End-of-the-year 2012
December 31, 2012, Comments Off on End-of-the-year 2012

Photos: Aislin’s favourite winter cartoons Aislin (aka Terry Mosher) writes: They say that winter 2012-13 will be ...

Education: demographics and trends 2011-2012
December 26, 2012, 6 Comments

About Coursera We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer co ...

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) – bad news & good news
December 10, 2012, 2 Comments

2012 10 December Google makes MIT professor’s dream of “$100 laptop” a reality (Reuters) – Googl ...

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