Wednesday-Night

OLP’s Raine Maida wants you to save the world
Heather Adler, Dose
November 09, 2007
Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida took a long look in the mirror recently and saw a man who was fed up with the world’s consumer-bred apathy, political corruption, forgotten victims and inability to find passion in the face of celebrity-obsessed culture and […]

Give One Get One
The OLPC project, which we have been following for some time, is dear to our hearts and has been discussed at several Wednesday Nights. While the dream of the hundred-dollar-laptop has yet to be realized, we are happy to publish the news of this program which came to us from […]

November 12
Couillard sounds alarm on nursing crisis
Aaron Derfel, The Gazette
Quebec’s nursing crisis has taken a turn for the worse as a growing number of nurses are quitting hospitals to work for private nursing agencies, Health Minister Philippe Couillard said today.
What’s more, the province will face a shortage of 7,300 nurses in five years and 23,000 […]

Sharing the spoils
Nov 6th 2007
From Economist.com
OIL prices seem to hit a new peak each week. This is good news for governments, which take a cut of revenues. And coffers will swell further as companies explore new sources of oil that had previously been too pricey to extract, such as oil sands in Alberta, Canada. The […]

Voices of Afghanistan By Robert J. Galbraith, Exclusive to The Suburban
Kabul, Afghanistan — For over a month, my colleague Guido Schmidt and myself have been living in and speaking to the people of Kabul, Afghanistan’s largest city. We have grown beards (which is a sign of respect here) and […]

November 11, 2007
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Last Tuesday, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia met Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican — the first audience ever by the head of the Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch. The Saudi king gave the pope two gifts: a golden sword studded with […]

Sunday, November 11, 2007
Quebec’s decision to back away from developing a corn-based ethanol industry in the province represents a rare victory of common sense over political expediency. Corn producers probably won’t like it, but everyone else - including environmentalists - should be pleased.
It was just over two years ago that Yvon Vallières, the agriculture minister […]

We applaud the ideas in this column and hope that our own Wednesday Night School Commissioner and her colleagues will read and think about the recommended approach for all kids - can we call it “benign streaming”? Westmount High, thanks to a dedicated principal, teachers and parents, looks to us like […]

November 9, 2007
by Eve Savory, CBCNews.ca

Documentary follows the Falun Gong movement
James Cowan, National Post
November 08, 2007
The CBC postponed the airing of a documentary about the Falun Gong spiritual movement after receiving calls from the Chinese embassy expressing concern about the film’s subject matter.
Beyond the Red Wall: The Persecution of the Falun Gong was scheduled to appear on Tuesday evening on […]