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October 2008
The Conference Board of Canada has published Canada’s Pathways Toward Global Innovation Success: Report of the Leaders’ Panel on Innovation-Based Commerce, Conference Board of Canada, Report by Guy Stanley
A Report card on Canada
(Conference Board of Canada) Canada ranks 14th among 17 peer countries and continues to be a “D” performer on innovation in the […]

Global voices Iranian elections 2009 ; NYT Topics Iran; The Economist Iran archives & country briefing
(Chatham House) Preliminary Analysis of the Voting Figures in Iran’s 2009 Presidential Election
Tehran’s Take: Understanding Iran’s US Policy (Foreign Affairs July/August 2009)

Timeline: Aftermath of the Iranian Elections -The fallout from the Iranian elections has been the most sustained challenge […]

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY! MAY THE LEPRECHAUNS AND OTHER WEE FOLK BRING YOU CHEER AND GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW - BECAUSE THE MEDIA CERTAINLY WON’T
We are doomed apparently to be mired in economic gloom attributable to everything from the failure of President Obama to govern as though […]

NYT Environment & energy ; Environmental Defense Fund: THE CASE FOR CAP AND TRADE PDF ;
U.S. Groups Want To Expand Climate Bill Forestry Aid
(Planet Ark) U.S. environmental groups are trying to expand a climate change bill being written in the Senate to help foreign countries pay for enforcing laws they already have in place […]

Richard Branson Aims To Rock The Boat For Green Shipping
(Greenbiz.com) According to Richard Branson’s new NGO, which is called the Carbon War Room, the global shipping fleet is the equivalent on the sixth most polluting country in the world:
Annual CO2e emissions currently exceed one million tons and are projected to grow to 18 percent of […]

In Depth:The Mackenzie Valley pipeline ; Reaction to the Mackenzie Gas Report
The Munk Debate 2009 on climate change ; ForumMissisquoi.com
Colère à Environnement Canada
(La Presse) Dans l’optique de contrôler davantage le message public, le gouvernement Harper a implanté un «protocole de relations avec les médias» sans précédent dans le domaine climatique: il interdit aux scientifiques de […]

See also M.S. Arctic Sea

Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants
Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the […]

David Suzuki Foundation: The Skeptics
Jim Hoggan: Slamming the Climate Skeptic Scam
How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic: Responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming
Munk Debates 2009: Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis, and demands a commensurate response.
Terence Corcoran: Remember Amazongate?
(National Post) Climate scientists attached to the rickety Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press ; Reporters without borders ; Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) ; Media Research Center (the conservative media watchdog) ; Society of Professional Journalists ; The Media Consortium (network of leading, progressive, independent media outlets in U.S.) ; Media Matters for America
CBC At Issue panel
Is Jon Stewart […]

Pot and Politics: Canada and the Marijuana Debate; The top 10 Canadian health news stories of 2009; Swine Flu H1N1
Hôpitaux en crise: les infirmières s’en prennent à Bolduc
La présidente de la FIQ affirme que la qualité des soins dans le réseau est directement liée aux conditions de travail des employés. Actuellement en négociation en vue […]