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Russia
January 19, 2009, 1 Comment

Ukraine gas dispute exposes political fault lines In its failed head-to-head showdown with Russia over a natural gas pay ...

Ragan lands federal government appointment
January 5, 2009, Comments Off on Ragan lands federal government appointment

Rob Wright, Canada’s Deputy Minister of Finance, announced the appointment of Chris Ragan as the 2009-2010 Clifford Cl ...

Wednesday Night #1399
December 24, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1399

With the advent of the winter solstice and all the accompanying festivities to accommodate and reconcile us to one anoth ...

Wednesday Night #1396
December 3, 2008, 1 Comment

Photos and more T H E  R E P O R T Three topics dominated the discussion, namely the parliamentary crisis, the economy ...

The world & the financial crisis
November 30, 2008, 1 Comment

We were glad to be reminded of this wonderful Long Johns clip  about how it all began – laughter truly is the bes ...

Wednesday Night #1393
November 12, 2008, 2 Comments

We return to some semblance of normality this Wednesday after last week’s back-to-back evenings, with the happy and hi ...

Building a Whole Earth Economy, Peter G. Brown
November 8, 2008, 2 Comments

See also Moral Economy Project,  The sustainable economy  and Peter G. Brown With an impending strike at the Gazette, ...

The Economy – What went wrong & What’s next? II
October 31, 2008, 1 Comment

See Part I of this topic/saga ; The evolving bailout plan ; The world after the (bailout) vote 31 October 2008 Reversal ...

Mort Zuckerman on the Financial Crisis and what we should do
October 22, 2008, Comments Off on Mort Zuckerman on the Financial Crisis and what we should do

The Anatomy of the Financial Crisis and Why We Must Get It Right Everyone is haunted by the fear our financial crisis mi ...

Paul Krugman wins Nobel Prize for economics
October 14, 2008, 1 Comment

An interesting morning The good Krugman Bill Watson in the National Post Despite his political views, free-market econom ...