Wednesday-Night

December 5 2007
Tony Juniper
Opinion, The Guardian
For decades, the world’s major companies have been increasingly successful in telling governments to keep out of their way. They have demanded that environmental problems be dealt with on a voluntary basis using market forces, and corporate lobby groups have said over and over again that customer demand will solve […]

Guy Stanley was recently named to the post of Director, Technology and Innovation, at the Conference Board of Canada. He also teaches the NAFTA course and Global Competitiveness at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. He is the author or co-author of five business books, three major federal government reports, and many articles in […]

The rich, famous and influential prepare to hear the secret to climate-safe energy
By Andy McSmith
24 November 2007
A discovery that could give the world access to vast quantities of energy with minimal damage to the climate will be shown off for the first time at a glittering gathering of the famous, rich and influential next Friday […]

The Internet giant is just one of many tech firms propping up China’s totalitarian ways.
By Peter Navarro
November 8, 2007
Which company has committed the greater evil? Yahoo Inc. helped send a reporter to prison by revealing his identity to the Chinese government. Cisco Systems Inc. helps send thousands of Chinese dissidents to prison by selling sophisticated […]

31 October 2007
Income trust investors still angry one year later
… It was one year ago that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty stunned the investment community by announcing the Conservative government would bring in a tax on income trusts by 2011 — reversing a campaign pledge made months earlier to leave them untaxed.
The wrath of the hundreds […]

24 October 2007
Lately, we have spent a lot of time agonizing over the political scene in this country. So much so, that it appears to us we have been neglecting many international news items and issues, so this Wednesday, appropriately United Nations Day , we propose to look at some of (it is hardly […]

26 September 2007
This is National Biotechnology Week which we would have expected to produce great chest-thumping from our city, given that Montréal is [not only] a highly regarded biotechnology R&D centre, [but also] home to the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) of the National Research Council (NRC) . Absent the expected municipal chest-thumping vaunting the region’s […]

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 […]

Forcing change on the weak
Economists’ shock therapy harms many, Naomi Klein says
PAT DONNELLY, The Gazette
Naomi Klein, of No Logo fame, has come out with a sweeping analysis claiming that extreme capitalism, methodically enforced upon disaster-stricken countries by global corporations, is a threat to us all.
In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Klein brings […]

By Kathy Morson
Mainstream businesses are launching new green initiatives and eco-friendly products each week in an effort to capitalize on society’s apparent shift toward a more environmental ethic. While this bodes well for the overall environmental movement, as the once-niche issue now receives prominent media attention, a crucial question is emerging: Who defines “green” […]