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Year-end 2011 Summary
December 31, 2011, Comments Off on Year-end 2011 Summary

ANALYSIS | How historic was 2011? (CBC) You know it’s an unusual year when Time magazine’s coveted Person of ...

Wednesday Night #1556
December 28, 2011, 1 Comment

Wednesday Night is, of course, open for business between Christmas and New Year’s – which seems now to have ...

Mortality and politics
December 19, 2011, Comments Off on Mortality and politics

Background: Thailand’s succession As father fades, his children fight Behind the present unrest in Thailand lie fa ...

Social unrest in 2011
December 14, 2011, 5 Comments

Time names ‘The Protester’ as Person of the Year Dissenters ‘redefining people power’ around the ...

U.S. in 2011
November 29, 2011, 1 Comment

Monitor some of the predictions and see how accurate they were The new census data may favor Republicans, but long-term ...

U.S. economy – debt ceiling crisis 2011
November 28, 2011, Comments Off on U.S. economy – debt ceiling crisis 2011

Wikipedia’s entry on the United States debt ceiling crisis includes a lengthy discussion of the arguments regardin ...

Energy Markets or Energy Governance?
November 12, 2011, Comments Off on Energy Markets or Energy Governance?

Javier Solana, former High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Common Security Policy of the European Union and forme ...

On some level, you must know how wrong this is
November 5, 2011, Comments Off on On some level, you must know how wrong this is

Sent through www.leadnow.ca/keep-canada-safe The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., Minister of Justice and Attorney ...

Canada in 2010 and 2011 – Immigration
November 4, 2011, 1 Comment

Background: Flight to Canada: The refugee process (March 2010) Canada to reform refugee system: Kenney Proposed reforms ...

Collapse of the Soviet Union and its importance in 2011
November 4, 2011, 1 Comment

Chanting ‘Russia for Russians,’ thousands of nationalists and neo-Nazis march through Moscow (WaPost) Thousands of f ...

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