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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 ...

Warren Allmand, R.I.P.
December 8, 2016, Comments Off on Warren Allmand, R.I.P.

Obituary: Longtime Liberal MP Warren Allmand has died In 2005, Warren Allmand was a newly elected city councillor when h ...

Climate change, uncertainty & natural disasters 2015-16
December 2, 2016, 1 Comment

UN & Climate Change Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics. Politicians discussing global warming. ...

Election campaign 2016: Republicans
November 4, 2016, 1 Comment

The Daily Trump: Filling a Time Capsule (The Atlantic Daily) People will look back on this era in our history to see wha ...

Election Campaign 2016: Democrats
November 1, 2016, Comments Off on Election Campaign 2016: Democrats

The Democratic Donkey and the Republican Elephant Ever wondered what the story was behind these two famous party animals ...

Kimon Valaskakis OWN R.I.P. 1941-2016
September 29, 2016, 5 Comments

29 September The Celebration of Kimon’s life was held this evening at Sauvé House. The reception rooms were fille ...

Iran 2014-2016
September 27, 2016, Comments Off on Iran 2014-2016

See also Wednesday Night #1741 Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men. Courage and hop ...

Canada & the Arctic 2013 – 2016
September 2, 2016, 1 Comment

The Arctic, country by country Laura Neilson Bonikowsky | October 4, 2012 (Diplomat) Our eight-country primer takes you ...

U.K. in 2016
July 18, 2016, 2 Comments

Dear Boris Johnson: here’s my 10-step guide to being Foreign Secretary By William Hague … Reject the idea th ...

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 ...