Wednesday-Night

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 […]

ROME, Oct 29 (IPS) - Shrinking newsrooms, declining sales and audiences, vanishing foreign correspondents, concentration of ownership, shrivelling papers…is journalism imploding? Can independent journalism survive?
“Yes,” says Chuck Lewis, founder of the Centre for Public Integrity, and one of the most respected voices in journalism today. And the answer is non-profit journalism.
Lewis is a former producer […]

An idea whose time - in our opinion - should not have come!
 
Wheel and deal your way to a fortune even faster using debit cards instead of cash! All it takes is a card swipe for money to change hands. Now you can collect rent, buy properties and pay fines - with the touch of […]

How to design a future-proof nuclear waste bunker
Every now and then, we find an item that intrigues and/or amuses us but does not fit easily into a category. The delightful and thought-provoking piece from The Economist is one such, reminding us of the opening of the  cult science fiction book of the late ’50s […]

30 October 2007
National Post
Apologies, but I am a semanticist and a pedant. It genuinely irks me that flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. Technically, to indicate that something would not burn one would have to label it “uninflammable.” And so it is with the term “reasonable accommodation.”
The debate over just how much newcomers need […]

The “Grow Home” is an answer to the high cost of housing in many countries. It is a project that will fit into any community. The exterior facades can be vinyl siding, wood, brick, stucco, stone etc.
The home is made to be built in groups of 4, 6, 8 and larger blocks. The economy of […]

October 26
By DAVID BROOKS
I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants.
The gurus seek bliss amidst mountaintop solitude and serenity in the meditative trance, but I, grasshopper, have achieved the oneness with the universe that is known as […]

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 […]