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West Wing Wednesday Night #23 February 10 2010
February 7, 2010, Comments Off on West Wing Wednesday Night #23 February 10 2010

The countdown is officially on – less than 10 days before that really special event in February (the one that no one c ...

Conrad Black
January 28, 2010, 2 Comments

Conrad Black addresses McGill students via prison phone Conrad Black has published a thousand-page biography of Richard ...

U.S. post 20 Jan 2009
January 20, 2010, Comments Off on U.S. post 20 Jan 2009

 Next week, the speech will be pretty much forgotten, and people will scratch their heads to remember a single quote fr ...

Canada & the world II
December 31, 2009, Comments Off on Canada & the world II

G8 Summit July 8-10 2009 ; Canada & the Arctic Is Security Council Seat a Tory Priority? (Embassy August 2009) Exper ...

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 #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 ...

Climate Change Stories
December 14, 2009, Comments Off on Climate Change Stories

See all Climate Change posts In Bolivia, Water and Ice Tell of Climate Change If the water problems are not solved, El A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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