Wednesday-Night

26 September 2007
At the end of a day-long forum yesterday on what to do about Quebec’s blooming blue-green algae problem, Premier Jean Charest and Environment Minister Line Beauchamp announced Quebec will move to ban phosphates in dishwashing detergents as early as this fall.
Ideally, the province says, Ottawa will get on board and prohibit phosphates across […]

While we do not usually post business news, we believe the ramifications of this story are important. It seems obvious that the sale is part of the fallout from the decision of the Conservative government to go ahead with Bill C-52 without the amendments requested by the Canadian Association of Income Funds (CAIF).
Abu Dhabi National […]

UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to act quickly to deal with climate change.
He told a gathering of heads of state in New York that a global agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions must be negotiated through the UN.
Leaders and representatives of 150 countries are gathering to discuss global warming […]

Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
High-profile Human Rights Attorney Seized by Chinese Police After
Sending Letter to U.S. Congress

 
Sept. 23, 2007—Renowned Chinese rights lawyer Mr. Gao Zhisheng was taken from his home by police on Saturday, Sept. 22; his present whereabouts are unknown. It is believed that Mr. Gao’s […]

22 September 2007
OTTAWA:
A new report by a federal government body is strongly criticizing the Conservative Party government’s environment plan. The plan was introduced this year after the government decided that Canada’s commitment to the targets under the international Kyoto Protocol were unattainable. The National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy says that […]

22 September 2007
Un chef isolé, un parti en déroute
Vincent Marissal La Presse
Depuis le temps qu’il essaye de dérider un peu le très sérieux Stéphane Dion, Jean-René «Infoman» Dufort a failli s’étouffer, mercredi soir, en l’entendant dire à Céline Galipeau qu’il était prêt à faire la tournée des émissions de variétés pour se faire connaître […]

David Ljunggren, Reuters
OTTAWA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A deal by 191 nations to eliminate ozone-depleting substances 10 years ahead of schedule is a “pivotal moment” in the fight against global warming, Canadian Environment Minister John Baird said on Saturday.
Delegates at a U.N. conference in Montreal struck the deal late on Friday. The agreement will phase […]

This is perhaps interesting, but is only one perspective on many topics in the book.
David Kilgour
Symbiosis: We have energy, the U.S. can defend us
Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun
September 22, 2007
A compelling dynamic increasingly is at play in Canada-U.S. relations: Symbiosis.
The United States is going to find itself more and more […]

Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) — Oil is up, the dollar down; and if the petroleum part of the relationship doesn’t change significantly, which looks unlikely, nor probably will the currency piece.
For three decades, the correlation between two of the world’s most important prices was strongly positive, with oil and the dollar rising and falling in tandem.
Petroleum […]

19 September 2007
While Montreal lives up to its aspirations as an international city this week with two major conferences underway, we are as always dismayed by how little the average - or even above-average - citizen knows about the UN presence here. If pushed, some outside the aviation fraternity might be able to identify ICAO, […]