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United Breaks Guitars
May 16, 2010, 2 Comments

This is such a great story of consumer revenge. And to think that it originates with a mild-mannered Canadian! We can se ...

Innovation in Canada
April 15, 2010, Comments Off on Innovation in Canada

October 2008 The Conference Board of Canada has published Canada’s Pathways Toward Global Innovation Success: Report o ...

Wednesday Night #1466
April 7, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1466

Given  that this  evening’s special guest was Nigel Penney, much of the discussion centered on science and educa ...

Invest in agriculture
April 6, 2010, Comments Off on Invest in agriculture

More on Agriculture & Food Emergent Asset Management How science could spark a second Green Revolution (CSM) To figh ...

Canada at 150 – a new way of conducting politics
April 5, 2010, Comments Off on Canada at 150 – a new way of conducting politics

Pascal Zemprelli: The dawn of politics 2.0 Politics 2.0 is about a culture change in Ottawa. It is politics moving from ...

Wednesday Night #1463
March 17, 2010, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1463

Dubai Karl Moore has just returned from leading a trip to Dubai for 25 students from McGill’s Desautels Management ...

Wednesday Night #1450
December 16, 2009, 1 Comment

Climate Change There are those who describe a disaster scenario depicting the virtual end of life on earth unless carbon ...

U.S. economy 2009
December 14, 2009, 2 Comments

NYT  Financial crisis one year later ;  Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit: The Man Who ...

India: Science & Technology
December 8, 2009, 1 Comment

Russia to supply India with nuclear reactors International power companies from Russia, France, the UK, the US and Canad ...

Wednesday Night #1448
December 2, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1448

Special thanks to Margaret Duthie for assiduous note-taking It seems that almost every week, we celebrate another achiev ...

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