Wednesday-Night

Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon perform N’Kosi Sikeleli (BBC): Nelson Mandela 1918-2013 Features and Analysis (National Post): Nelson Mandela (Globe & Mail) Nelson Mandela 1918-2013 Tony Karon: Three Myths about Mandela Worth Busting […]

One Look At The United States-Canada Border Reveals Some Ridiculous Things Americans shouldn’t take for granted their friendly neighbor to the north (Buffalo News) Misconceptions in the United States about Canada are quite common. They include: […]

See Wednesday Night #1614, 6 February 2013 Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings: 2013 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning? Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity Sir Ken Robinson […]

China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions (Bloomberg) China’s central bank barred financial institutions from handling Bitcoin transactions, moving to regulate the virtual currency after an 89-fold jump in its value sparked a surge of investor […]

Canadian International Council (CIC) and OpenCanada.org Ottawa University Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) Blog Guerrilla Diplomacy (Daryl Copeland blog) A vision for foreign policy Canada and International Organizations: Time for a Review by Ferry de […]