Wednesday-Night

CREDIT: View of working class homes on Mountain St in Griffintown with the City of Montreal looming behind. THE GAZETTE/Dave Sidaway
November 24, 2007
Gazette editorial
Griffintown project deserves support
The most striking thing about Thursday’s announcement of a sweeping new program to revitalize the moribund Griffintown area, south of downtown, was the way Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay had […]

Opposition MPs fuming about being left off Bali delegation
JENNIFER DITCHBURN
The Canadian Press
November 22, 2007
OTTAWA — There’ll be no room for opposition MPs in the Canadian government’s inn at next month’s crucial climate-change talks in Bali, Indonesia.
Environment Minister John Baird’s office confirmed yesterday that representatives from the three opposition parties would not be welcome as part […]

21 November 2007
Six years ago coalition forces headed into Afghanistan to eradicate the Taliban. Now an international think tank says more than half of the country is under the Taliban’s thumb. Meanwhile, an Oxfam report sharply criticized US-led development efforts in the region.
In war-torn Afghanistan, the Taliban is gaining ground again as it continues its […]

21 November 2007
There are the obvious topics that have dominated the news over the last few days:
The OPEC Summit and what may or may not have been resolved in that wonderfully inclusive forum where the presidents of Iran and Venezuela railed against the U.S. and then everyone came together for a (relatively) warm and […]

Forced work in regions wrong, Quebec told
AARON DERFEL, The Gazette
The Quebec College of Physicians criticized the provincial government yesterday for a permits policy that requires young doctors to start their careers in outlying regions.
Forcing doctors to start their careers in a specific region is a form of “medical purgatory” that does nothing to address the […]

November 21, 2007
CHICAGO — Why do so many passengers get off the plane only to discover that their baggage did not make the trip with them?
American Airlines started asking that question with greater urgency a year ago, and its search for answers led to, among other problems, dirty printer heads.
Workers at American found […]

21 November 2007
The Bouchard-Taylor hearings aside, Canadians are more tolerant
There is a growing backlash against suggestions we are not accommodating
MICHAEL ADAMS, Freelance, The Gazette
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence,” Greek philosopher Xenocrates said. One wonders whether, when the Bouchard-Taylor commission on reasonable accommodation has aired the thoughts of every Quebecer who chooses […]

Dizzy in Boomtown
Nov 15th 2007 | HONG KONG
From The Economist print edition
The boom in emerging economies and their stockmarkets is not over yet. But some are likely to run out of breath sooner than others
THE world is experiencing one of the biggest revolutions in history, as economic power shifts from the developed world to China […]

From: Robert J. Galbraith [mailto:eyewitnesstowar@yahoo.com]
Sent: November 19, 2007 12:24 PM
To: David Nicholson; Diana Nicholson
Subject: Insight into the mind of this freelance journalist/Rob in Kandahar
Hello David and Diana, you may think it kind of strange that I send you these personal e-mails for you and all our friends to […]

Book urges Quebecers to embrace Canada
Marianne White, CanWest News Service
November 18, 2007
QUEBEC — Quebecers should leave the political and constitutional strife behind, shed their victim complex and take a fresh look at Canada, a coalition […]