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The Role of Values in Driving Climate Disputes
August 31, 2011, Comments Off on The Role of Values in Driving Climate Disputes

Andrew Revkin: Dot Earth Reacting to yesterday’s piece on how better definitions of terms could help clarify climate d ...

Wednesday Night #1538
August 24, 2011, 1 Comment

Jack Layton and Canadian politics Jack Layton is being laid to rest after having led a group, largely composed of neophy ...

U.S. Economy 2011 – credit rating
August 22, 2011, 8 Comments

Head of rating agency S&P stepping down NEW YORK (AP) — The president of Standard & Poor’s is steppi ...

Wednesday Night #1535
August 3, 2011, 3 Comments

It’s pretty scary out there. If you look at the historical data, every single time that growth has dipped below 2% ...

AECL
June 30, 2011, 3 Comments

AECL pulls plug on costly reactor project (CBC) The federal government has quietly shelved development of a new Canadian ...

U.S. Economy 2011 – the first six months
June 30, 2011, Comments Off on U.S. Economy 2011 – the first six months

The Onion: Something About Tax Cuts Or Earnings Or Money Or Something In Recent Economic News published in September 201 ...

US Election 2012: Weighing and Examining
June 29, 2011, Comments Off on US Election 2012: Weighing and Examining

David T. Jones: US Election 2012: Weighing and Examining – a useful early-days primer for Canadians from our Wedne ...

Canada: 2011 Federal election
June 22, 2011, 4 Comments

Orphaned Voter : Canada’s electoral system is broken More women running this election – but many in hopeless rac ...

West Wing Wednesday Night #37 May 32, 2011
May 28, 2011, Comments Off on West Wing Wednesday Night #37 May 32, 2011

 Important postscript from the West Wing As always a new theme has emerged in the last few days so I will add it for yo ...

Wednesday Night #1524
May 18, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1524

Events of the past weeks have led us to reflect on whether life was not much more agreeable and certainly less stressful ...