Wednesday-Night

G8 Summit July 8-10 2009 ; Canada & the Arctic

Ottawa embarrassed by release of Somali pirates
(CTV) Canada’s allies took an increasingly hard line. French and American commandos shot suspected pirates, while Washington even attempted to try one of them for the capture of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama.
Legal experts looked at Ottawa’s “catch-and-release” policy with […]

See also Wednesday-night.com on Burma
Elections and Opportunity in Myanmar
(Council on Foreign Relations Expert Brief) … Myanmar has become increasingly important, as rivalry between regional powers increases. Myanmar sits in a strategically vital location in Asia and possesses some of the region’s largest reserves of oil and gas. As a result, its future path is critical […]

BUDGET 2010: Leading the way on jobs and growth
BHP in Canadian charm offensive
BHP Billiton will launch its charm offensive in Canada this week, as the mining group seeks to convince Canadian regulators and PotashCorp shareholders of the value in its $39bn (£25.1bn) bid to take over the fertiliser producer.
12 August
Don’t turn off stimulus spending taps […]

Africa development indicators 2008-2009 ; Kenya ; SciDevNet Sub-Saharan Africa
23 August 2007
Is Western aid making a difference in Africa?
(CSM) Two US economists [Ayub Rioba and Jeffrey Sachs] debate the value of antipoverty efforts.
“Is this really how to save Africa?” asks Tanzanian columnist Ayub Rioba, a day after Bill Clinton has left Africa. “We appreciate […]

Haiti on Wednesday-Night.com; CIA World Factbook: Haiti;
NYT Times Topics: Haiti; KANPE ; Fonkoze - Haiti’s Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor. We are the largest micro-finance institution offering a full range of financial services to the rural-based poor in Haiti.

KANPE means “Stand Up” in Haitian Creole, and, as the name suggests, the bulk of […]

Innovation in emerging markets
Wednesday-Night.com Emerging markets

Meet the world’s next growth engine
(Financial Post) While the developed world grapples with the mass retirement of its baby boom generation, India is just welcoming its boomers into the workforce.
There, a demographic bulge will lead to an enormous labour force spike in the coming years, presenting India with a profound […]

Haiti - Six months later: Haiti on Wednesday-Night.com; CIA World Factbook: Haiti;
NYT Times Topics: Haiti; CBC: Haiti’s unhappy history; CBC: Aid reality Médecins sans frontières CA Haiti Blog
Some context:
Haiti: The Pearl of the Antilles - The continued portrayal of Haiti as the basket case of the hemisphere without accurate contextualization further wounds the Haitian people […]

Afghan elections 2009; Hamid Karzai More on Afghanistan
Afghan “peace jirga” is marked by rockets, suicide attacks
At least three Taliban suicide bombers struck a national peace assembly in which Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban to join the government and civil society — an attack that underscored the difficult […]

The hate and the quake … for too long there has been a popular perception that somehow the Haitian nation-building project, launched on January 1, 1804, has failed on account of mismanagement, ineptitude, corruption. Buried beneath the rubble of imperial propaganda, out of both Western Europe and the United States, is the evidence which shows […]

Photos and videos
Kimon reintroduced a most welcome face from the past, Concordia Associate Professor (Communications Studies) Scot Gardiner, whom he had first known at Cornell when both were graduate students. Scot has taught, written books - as each of my courses evolves into a book, I become more obsolescent - , traveled the planet […]