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Social media, society and technology 2016 – 2017
June 29, 2017, Comments Off on Social media, society and technology 2016 – 2017

17 Things You Were Doing on the Computer in 2001 (and aren’t doing any more) The meaning of life in a world withou ...

Aid, Development and Progress 2014 – 2017
January 24, 2017, Comments Off on Aid, Development and Progress 2014 – 2017

Foreign Aid for Development Assistance Trump’s New “Global Gag Rule” is Much, Much More Far Reaching than George W ...

Montreal 2016
December 30, 2016, Comments Off on Montreal 2016

30 December Fifteen Montrealers named to Order of Canada Former Supreme Court Justice Morris Fish and McGill University ...

Media Matters 2016
December 22, 2016, Comments Off on Media Matters 2016

Media Matters 2015 The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy How to Deal With the Lies of Donald Trump ...

Education 2015-16
December 22, 2016, 1 Comment

“People often confuse charters and vouchers, but they are very different,” wrote Parag Pathak of the Massachusetts I ...

Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare 2012-16
December 15, 2016, 1 Comment

15 December Opinion: He won’t actually take away my insurance, will he? (NYT) “I kept hearing informed voters, who h ...

John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95
December 8, 2016, Comments Off on John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95

John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95 John Glenn, a freckle-faced son of Ohio who was hailed as a natio ...

Lac-Mégantic and regulatory aftermath
October 21, 2016, Comments Off on Lac-Mégantic and regulatory aftermath

Transport Canada Rail Safety Quebec says Canadian Pacific directly responsible for Lac-Mégantic damages Canadian Pacifi ...

2016 Olympics Rio de Janeiro
August 22, 2016, Comments Off on 2016 Olympics Rio de Janeiro

Follow Rio 2016 Olympics NYT slideshow of Opening Ceremony CBC (short) video of Opening Ceremony 2016 Rio Summer Olympic ...

Food Security
May 18, 2016, 3 Comments

Salt-Resistant Rice Offers Hope For Farmers Clinging To Disappearing Islands (NPR) Many of the 4 million people who live ...

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