Wednesday-Night

China’s unsolved riddle is how to reconcile fast economic growth with environmental protection. But Beijing’s Olympic deadline means the city needs an immediate answer. The ruling Communist Party envisions the Games as a public relations showcase and is leaving no detail untended. Now Beijing is also going to try to manipulate air quality. For months, […]

December 27, 2007
Keeping aircraft flying safely is a $43-billion global market. ACTS CEO Chahram Bolouri wants to make his company the leader in the Americas for maintenance, repair and overhaul
ROBERT GIBBENS, Freelance
When ACTS’s CEO Chahram Bolouri looks toward Dorval from his sparse office in St. Laurent’s Technoparc, he’s thinking of a $43-billion global market for […]

The amazing Oscar Petersen 15 August 1925 - 23 December 2007
is mourned around the world.
The last Wednesday Night of 2007 falls on Boxing Day - a frenetic commercial activity that is a horrid distortion of a medieval charitable custom. We believe that a return […]

A bit of dignity
Fondation de la Rue… a la Réussite
By P.A. Sévigny, The Suburban
While thousands of homeless continue to wander the streets of Montreal and hundreds wonder what can be done about it, some know what it takes to make the difference between a life well lived as opposed to a dull and desperate existence […]

MERRY CHRISTMAS SEASONS GREETINGS
HAPPY HANNUKAH Eid ul-Adha Bodhi Day

December 2007
With the massive snowfall that has enveloped us this month, we have every reason to be filled with Christmas cheer and yet this year, have been slower off the mark, possibly because […]

Will Kenyan election cap a dismal year for Africa, or show the way?
By CHARLES ONYANGO -OBBO
In the end, it was not to be but […]

December 23, 2007
National Post
The committee overseeing the restructuring of $33-billion worth of seized asset-backed commercial paper hammered out an agreement in principal Sunday which aims to give investors full repayment if they hold onto the complex investments to maturity and provides for a funding facility of $14-billion through Canadian banks.
“I am confident that this plan […]

The Gazette
December 22, 2007
Late on Christmas Eve
The old musician sat
On the steps of Notre Dame de Bon Secours
Snowflakes melting on his wide-brimmed hat
Not exactly sure
Why he was there
Too tired to go anywhere else.
Snowflakes sparkled on his cape
Glistened in his beard and hair
Like the halo of lights that flared
Around the Virgin’s perch
On the roof of the […]

By Oscar Avila Chicago Tribune
December 21, 2007
Only 1 TV station survives to criticize, but for how long?
CARACAS, Venezuela - The reporters at Globovision, the only remaining broadcast television station routinely critical of the Venezuelan government, work behind a towering wall and barbed wire. Just in case.
Someone once threw an explosive device at […]