power

Power and spin in China as told by authors Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang

Discussions with minister & medical school were private

The search engine is paying a price for its dominance of the web

The wildly popular PM appears to be readying himself for a 2012 presidential run

Ontario admits that its much-hyped energy project was broken and would have cost taxpayers $1 billion

Quebec has ambitious plans to sell green electricity to the U.S.

Tim Naumetz has a good piece in this week’s Hill Times, in which various Chretien-era Liberals note that the second Mulroney majority was a blessing of sorts: the absence of any possibility of an election gave the party the breathing room and time to rejig itself. Would it have been easier for the Liberals if Harper had won a majority? Perhaps, but as Wayne Easter says, what might have been good for the Liberals would have been a disaster for the country:

Jean Charest is looking for ways to erase a $4-billion deficit

Three important book reviews that arrived on newsstands awhile back, but that I’ve only now just noticed online now.

It may seem obvious to the cynics (realists? socialists?) among us, but more power equals less heart, according to Berkeley researchers.