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May 17
Aid pours in, but time runs for China quake survivors
(IHT) Remarkably, relief officials said they had rescued a child buried alive in the ruins of a middle school about 80 hours after the quake struck.
May 16
CHINA: Quake Helps Mend Image After Tibet Crackdown
BEIJING, May 16 (IPS) - A sense of solemnity has enveloped […]

 
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, ECONOMICS, TRADE AND APPROACHES TO GOVERNMENT
Remarks by Hon. David Kilgour. J.D.
Canadian International Council/Conseil International du Canada, Victoria Branch
Changing Dynamics in Canada – U.S. Relations
Dunsmuir Lodge, Victoria May 12-13, 2008
According to a legend, in creating the world, God gave to Canada British Columbia, the Gulf Islands, the Rockies […]

AIRSHIP
George Monbiot in The Guardian
If there is a God, he’s not green. Otherwise airships would take off
Many will cite the Hindenburg, but flying without harming the planet is possible. These craft are worth developing
Of all the charges levelled against environmentalists, perhaps the most unfair is the accusation that we are opposed to technological […]

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BRAVO! BRAVISSIMO! to Beryl Wajsman and the team - including Wednesday Nighters Anthony Philbin, Robert Galbraith, Julius Grey and Brigitte Garceau (the latter we presume is tasked to keep them out of trouble) - of The Metropolitain. The speed with which the concept has become a […]

May 3 2008
Biofuel salvation or perdition?
As debate heats up on the wisdom of turning plants into energy, Ottawa embraces the idea
A growing global food crisis has not curbed the appetite of Canada’s newest biofuel plant, which is busy stockpiling a mountain of wheat near this town west of Regina.
Billed as the largest wheat-fed ethanol plant […]

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See also The Biofuel Backlash and
Toxic chemicals and Environment on wednesday-night.com
We also recommend Andrew Coyne’s column If not Kyoto, what? of May 24, 2006. We haven’t advanced a whole lot since then.

3 May 2008
Burning money
By Henry Aubin
The hope that some new oil-free technology will rescue […]

See also Wednesday-Night.com Alberta and Oil Notes
3 May
Oil sands giant says ’sorry’ for dead ducks
EDMONTON — The company behind a giant oil sands plant in northern Alberta has taken out full-page ads in several Canadian newspapers to apologize for the deaths of an estimated 500 ducks that landed on a toxic wastewater pond near Fort […]

The globalization paradigm has led, in the political arena, to a certain historical narrative: There were once nation-states like the U.S. and the European powers, whose economies could be secured within borders. But now capital flows freely. Technology has leveled the playing field. Competition is global and fierce.
New dynamos like India and China threaten American […]

Although the early days of the campaign were regrettably short on serious exploration of issues and the candidates’ positions, their websites supply considerable information. However until the Democrats unite behind one candidate, we decided to follow the issues in one post, except for Foreign Policy and NAFTA. Later, there will be separate posts for each […]

April 28, 2008
Thanks to Ron Robertson for forwarding this thoughtful piece that addresses the problems of NAFTA and offers intelligent solutions. We hope that it will ’stir the pot’ and elicit further comments. We have only one question: is it realistic to think that the respective bodies would pass the necessary legislation? We […]