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BBC page on Burma Protests
See also Burma on David Kilgour’s website and on Wednesday-night.com
Satellite images corroborate eyewitness accounts of human rights abuses in Burma, AAAS reports
A new analysis of high-resolution satellite images — completed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — pinpoints evidence consistent with village […]

Published 30 September 2007
NEVADA, Iowa, Sept. 24 — The ethanol boom of recent years — which spurred a frenzy of distillery construction, record corn prices, rising food prices and hopes of a new future for rural America — may be fading.
Only last year, farmers here spoke of a biofuel gold rush, and they rejoiced as […]

29 September 2007
Civil aviation conference rejects EU push for emission cuts
MONTREAL (AFP) — The International Civil Aviation Organization on Friday adopted a broad program to counter the effects of global warming in the aviation industry, but rejected EU proposals to cut carbon emissions.
After meeting for 10 days, [a] majority of delegates at the United Nations […]

Well-known Montreal lawyer considers political career
The Gazette
Constitutional lawyer Julius Grey is pondering a step into federal politics, most likely as a candidate for the New Democratic Party.
“I haven’t made up my mind; I’m weighing the pros and cons,” Grey said today in a telephone interview from his home.
On the heels of Thomas Mulcair’s decisive victory […]

From: Guy Stanley [mailto:guy.stanley@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:56 AM
Hi Diana,
Always sorry to miss a WN, but the biotech subject line made this one
especially appealing. Not sure if I ever sent you the biotech TRM [”The Canadian Biopharmaceutical Industry Technology Roadmap“] I edited. It came out earlier this year.
My main reason for absence […]

September 28, 2007
U.S.
At 13,913, the Dow Jones is 128 points away from the July 19 record, having gained over 500 points since the September 18 bold move by the Fed in cutting by ½%, its federal funds rate (4 ¾ %) and discount rate (5¼%). It was the first cut in four years […]

28 September 2007
Why did president leave, Concordia faculty asks
Open letter denounces board’s silence. Sept. 18 decision remains shrouded in secrecy
JAN RAVENSBERGEN, The Gazette
A curtain of official silence around the abrupt departure of Claude Lajeunesse as Concordia University president “is unacceptable,” says an open letter issued yesterday by the university’s 950-member faculty union.
Neither the board of […]

27 September 2007
SHIJIAZHUANG, China — Hundreds of feet below ground, the water supply for this provincial capital of more than two million people is steadily running out. Municipal wells have already drained two-thirds of the local groundwater, and the water table is sinking fast.
Above ground, this city in the North China Plain is having a […]

26 September 2007
This is National Biotechnology Week which we would have expected to produce great chest-thumping from our city, given that Montréal is [not only] a highly regarded biotechnology R&D centre, [but also] home to the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) of the National Research Council (NRC) . Absent the expected municipal chest-thumping vaunting the region’s […]

26 September 2007
Suddenly at her residence on Wednesday, September 26, 2007. She leaves to mourn her son, Andrew Valaskakis, her brother, John Fitzpatrick, her former husband, Kimon Valaskakis, her step-sons, Paris and Ion Valaskakis, her sister-in-law, Rhea Amelon, her brother-in-law, Jean Trudel, her nieces, Jocelyn Dintilhac (Franck) and family and Tamar Tembeck, her cousins-in-law, Poupetta […]