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2008 Canadian Constitutional Affairs Conference
January 30, 2008, 1 Comment

The 2008 Canadian Constitutional Affairs Conference – organized by a group of students from the Laval and McGill Facul ...

Flaherty dismisses fears over foreign capital
January 29, 2008, Comments Off on Flaherty dismisses fears over foreign capital

29 January 2008 Finance Minister backs injections of overseas cash; plans national security test for foreign takeovers T ...

Big, bad oil in all its glory
January 26, 2008, Comments Off on Big, bad oil in all its glory

January 26 2008 An empire from a tub of goo How did the quest to retrieve the treasure hidden beneath huge swaths of nor ...

Manley recommends extending Afghan mission
January 26, 2008, 1 Comment

January 25, 2008 Afghanistan needs us Without the presence of international troops, chaos would erupt JOHN MANLEY Saturd ...

Fears of global recession: stock indexes fall
January 22, 2008, 1 Comment

With thanks to the Huffington Post The financial turmoil is like an elephant in a dark room By Martin Wolf, Financial Ti ...

Europe Cutting Biofuel Subsidies
January 22, 2008, 1 Comment

January 22, 2008 Europe Cutting Biofuel Subsidies Redirects Aid to Stress Greenest Options By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Govern ...

Abu Dhabi to invest $15 billion in Green Energy
January 21, 2008, Comments Off on Abu Dhabi to invest $15 billion in Green Energy

January 22, 2008 Masdar City will be constructed in the desert on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. The aims are to use only r ...

The Education of Ben Bernanke
January 19, 2008, 3 Comments

January 20, 2008 By ROGER LOWENSTEIN (NYT Magazine) Ben Bernanke’s first exposure to monetary policy was reading the w ...

Three Rs for surviving environmental change
January 18, 2008, Comments Off on Three Rs for surviving environmental change

January 18, 2008 Cleo Paskal No country is ready for natural disasters. In fact, some of the world’s richest nations a ...

New research raises concern on biofuel safety
January 17, 2008, Comments Off on New research raises concern on biofuel safety

January 17, 2008 (Christian Science Monitor) Even as some states are mandating ethanol as part of the fuel mix, new rese ...

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