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Wednesday Night #1341
November 14, 2007, 3 Comments

14 November 2007 A few weeks ago, Tony Deutsch suggested as a topic the subject of the New York Times article “The ...

Apathy is boring
November 13, 2007, Comments Off on Apathy is boring

OLP’s Raine Maida wants you to save the world Heather Adler, Dose November 09, 2007 Our Lady Peace frontman Raine ...

Wednesday Night #1339 Update: One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
November 13, 2007, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1339 Update: One Laptop per Child (OLPC)

Give One Get One The OLPC project, which we have been following for some time, is dear to our hearts and has been discus ...

Backing away from ethanol makes sense – Editorial
November 11, 2007, Comments Off on Backing away from ethanol makes sense – Editorial

Sunday, November 11, 2007 Quebec’s decision to back away from developing a corn-based ethanol industry in the prov ...

Improving academic performance
November 11, 2007, Comments Off on Improving academic performance

We applaud the ideas in this column and hope that our own Wednesday Night School Commissioner and her colleagues will re ...

Extinctions could cut plant productivity in half
November 10, 2007, Comments Off on Extinctions could cut plant productivity in half

November 9, 2007 by Eve Savory, CBCNews.ca In a study that has startled even its authors, scientists have concluded that ...

CBC pulls film after calls from Chinese embassy
November 9, 2007, 1 Comment

Documentary follows the Falun Gong movement James Cowan, National Post November 08, 2007 The CBC postponed the airing of ...

Can independent journalism survive?
November 8, 2007, Comments Off on Can independent journalism survive?

ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) – Shrinking newsrooms, declining sales and audiences, vanishing foreign correspondents, concent ...

Government wants to hear from/about seniors
November 7, 2007, Comments Off on Government wants to hear from/about seniors

Margaret Lefebvre advises that the government commission on: The living conditions of seniors a social issue that is the ...

IATA appoints new director of 'environment initiatives'
November 6, 2007, Comments Off on IATA appoints new director of 'environment initiatives'

6 November 2007 New Director Raises Profile of IATA’s Environment Programme (GENEVA) The International Air Transpo ...

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