Archive for March, 2009

Earth Hour 2009
March 28, 2009, Comments Off on Earth Hour 2009

Earth Hour 2008 Earth Hour 2009 — Saturday at 8:30 p.m. Earth Hour, first created in 2007 by the World Wildlife Fu ...

Wednesday Night #1412
March 25, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1412

T H E  R E P O R T A forecast is not pretense at clairvoyance.  It is risk identification. If you add reasonably accur ...

Darfur – A plan
March 22, 2009, 2 Comments

Human Rights Watch: Crisis in Darfur This was in the works for a long time. They had been waiting for a chance to strike ...

Jon Stewart on business news reporting
March 20, 2009, Comments Off on Jon Stewart on business news reporting

Schott’s Vocab A new blog by Ben Schott on the words and phrases that encapsulate the times in which we live. Cram ...

Wednesday Night #1411
March 18, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1411

A last-minute (but worthy) update from our friend Jim Heffernan, who occasionally blogs on the HuffPost. “Since I ...

Capitalism and Adam Smith
March 13, 2009, Comments Off on Capitalism and Adam Smith

Despite all [Adam] Smith did to explain and defend the constructive role of the market, he was deeply concerned about th ...

Global dimming
March 13, 2009, Comments Off on Global dimming

Growing pollution leads to “global dimming” WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Visibility on clear days has declin ...

Wednesday Night #1410
March 11, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1410

CONGRATULATIONS to the West Wing for reaching their first anniversary. We are very proud of our Vancouver sibling and al ...

West Wing of Wednesday Night #12
March 11, 2009, Comments Off on West Wing of Wednesday Night #12

Judging by the flowers in our garden, spring has sprung (hopefully!) and once again it will soon be time for another gat ...

Canada's world
March 11, 2009, Comments Off on Canada's world

11 March Back on the Map: A New Vision of Canada in the World, the report of our national dialogue session, is now avail ...