Wednesday-Night

21 August 2007
By LYDIA POLGREEN AND HOWARD W. FRENCH
The courtyard in front of the Zambia China Mulungushi Textiles factory is so quiet, even at midday, that the fluttering of the ragged Chinese and Zambian flags is the only sound hanging in the air.
The factory used to roar. From the day it opened more than 20 […]

15 August 2007
This Wednesday we will have David Kilgour, long-serving (May 1979 until January 2006) Member of Parliament for the southeastern area of Edmonton, and his wife Laura as very special guests. In addition to serving as an MP (and in the Chrétien government as Secretary of State for Latin America & Africa, later for […]

25 July 2007
Our mental capabilities are exhausted from the intense and challenging conversation of last week’s Salon covering Global Governance, China, Iraq and the Geopolitics of Environmental Change including Canada’s claims to the Northwest Passage
The relevance of our WN topics was confirmed today by the BBC report today that Russia is sending a mini-submarine to […]

Hope, Concern Greet China’s Growing Prominence
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
23 July 2007
By Michael Deibert
While China’s growing trade and investment flows to Africa have sparked a sometimes contentious debate with the United States and Europe over who has the continent’s best interests at heart, a closer look at the dynamic developing reveals a political landscape […]

18 July 2007
By Isabel Chimangeni IPS
Lusaka
Votes cast for presidential contender Michael Sata in the recent election suggest a growing discontent among Zambians over the effects of increased Chinese involvement in their country.
President Levy Mwanawasa won the Sep. 28 poll, but Sata received an overwhelming majority of votes in the capital — Lusaka — and […]

25 April 2007
Expo 67
How many of you realize that Friday the 27th is the 40th anniversary of the opening day of expo 67? We confess to a huge wave of nostalgia for what appears in retrospect as a kinder, gentler time - it was a golden summer in the memories of those who are old […]

14 April 2004
We hope the Easter Bunny was kinder to you than to many politicians - on the first anniversary of Jean Charest’s government, the basket seems loaded with rotten eggs; Paul Martin’s government still struggling with sponsorship scandals, Air Canada crises, poor poll results, and now surely the decision to […]

Almost every Wednesday there is mention of the children who have left Montreal … Québec… and Canada, and what we can do to entice them home again.
This week it is our great joy to have Fiona, our daughter, with us for a brief visit from Regina where she has been with the […]

It has been quite a week! For those of us privileged to hear Kimon on the subject of Global Governance last Wednesday, it was a bit of a shock to wake up to Global Chaos on Thursday morning. Presumably this will give rise to a new entry in the Lexicon - E-Chaos.
Then […]