2008: What A Year!How else can you describe it? Thanks to Maclean’s for giving me the opportunity to share with readers in the blogosphere my...
How to fix the leaking Alberta oil sandsEarlier this month, a report came out on how much contaminated water was leaking from the Alberta tar sands. The Green Room...
Is Hamas in over its head?Writing in the New York Times , Ben-Gurion University’s Benny Morris suggests Israelis aren’t simply scared; they’re deathly...
Up Next: The FutureThe monthly news magazine published by UBC has a neat little feature this month: they asked a handful of researchers to talk about...
USA Stat of the DayIn 2000, 539 white and 851 black juveniles committed murder, according to an analysis of federal data by the authors. In 2007, the...
How busting Madoff cost the U.S. government billionsOver at the American Interest editorial blog, economist Peter Heller looks at where the money from Bernard Madoff’s $50-billion...
First we take BismarckToday’s WSJ front-page-quirky-story is about Russian academic Igor Panarin, who has made a bit of a name for himself predicting...
Fowler/Guay WatchIt has now been two weeks since Canadians Robert Fowler, Louis Guay, and a third (possibly fourth) person disappeared in Niger, on...