All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
December 10, 2009, 1 Comment

Like the rest of the world, when we woke to the news, we were astonished, and while we believe that the Nobel committee ...

Wednesday Night #1449
December 9, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1449

Reminder: Although relatively little has been done to publicize the event, we draw your attention to the presence of the ...

Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
December 9, 2009, 1 Comment

Trucks are loaded with sugar cane, which will be used to produce biofuels, in Brazil. Photograph: Paulo Whitaker/Reuters ...

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 ...

President Obama and Afghanistan
December 7, 2009, Comments Off on President Obama and Afghanistan

Text of President Obama’s speech More on Afghanistan here and Afghanistan on Wednesday-night.com Jeffrey Sachs: Th ...

Philanthropy and the economic crisis
December 5, 2009, Comments Off on Philanthropy and the economic crisis

Asian American Giving, philanthropy journal ; Council on Foundations ; NYT pages on philanthropy Charles Bronfman And Je ...

Oil & Power 2009
December 4, 2009, Comments Off on Oil & Power 2009

Wiliam Marsden: Big oil’s relentless lobby As world leaders gather in Copenhagen next week for historic negotiatio ...

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 ...

Canada: economy 2009
December 2, 2009, 1 Comment

Jeff Rubin blog Bombardier layoffs reduced after it agrees to job-sharing with union More than 100 Bombardier Aerospace ...

Montreal 2003- 2009
December 1, 2009, 1 Comment

Heritage Montreal Here is the wonderful  Montreal City Weblog that does 99.9% of our Montreal-focused work for us. It i ...

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