All posts tagged government & governance

Wednesday Night #1553
December 7, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1553

See exchange on the Middle East with David Oliver & Joumane Chahine With great thanks to Margaret Duthie for her cop ...

The Arab/Middle East world in 2011
November 29, 2011, 2 Comments

The Charlie Rose Islam Series: Inside Islam ; The Guardian: Arab and Middle East unrest ; Iran, Israel/Palestine, Libya, ...

U.S. economy – debt ceiling crisis 2011
November 28, 2011, Comments Off on U.S. economy – debt ceiling crisis 2011

Wikipedia’s entry on the United States debt ceiling crisis includes a lengthy discussion of the arguments regardin ...

Wednesday Night #1551
November 23, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1551

The Report The discussion was enlivened by the arrival of the Greek contingent fresh from the Roundtable Analysis and Di ...

Africa: conflict and governance
September 14, 2011, 1 Comment

Africa, China, the United States, and Oil ; Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Africa Policy Forum A ...

Wednesday Night #1540
September 7, 2011, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1540

In memorium A memorial service was held today in Victoria Hall commemorating the life of the late Sally Aitken. The larg ...

Wednesday Night #1537
August 17, 2011, 1 Comment

Brian Morel introduced his good friend Jean-Louis Thémis, chef cuisinier at the Quebec Tourism and Hotel Institute (yes ...

Wednesday Night #1536
August 10, 2011, 4 Comments

It was a great pleasure to have John Evdokias introduce his wife, Dominique Beauchamp, who, despite her youthful appeara ...

Africa: Environmental degradation
August 5, 2011, Comments Off on Africa: Environmental degradation

Niger Delta oil damage needs decades, $1 billion to fix The environmental damage from oil spills in the small Ogoniland ...

Wednesday Night #1534
July 27, 2011, 2 Comments

The difference between the optimist and the pessimist is the pessimist has a little more information The Scribe’s ...

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