Finally, someone says it: the handling of the listeria outbreak has been abysmal. Canada is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with the sluggish public health response of a less educated, far less blessed nation. 16 people have died during the outbreak, and not one of the public officials or government members responsiblecontinue reading
September 2008 Archives
Is there any other kind?
Sigh… New Brunswick Liberal Premier Shawn Graham voiced his vocal support for federal Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion and the Green Shift today at a campaign stop in Saint John, New Brunswick.
In case you were in doubt
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Oil sands production: unsustainable, in so many ways
Jack Layton’s campaign kick-off highlighted the well-known environmental issues with the oil sands. And a new report from National Bank Financial highlights the other sustainability problem facing Fort McMurray: the break-even oil price required by new mining projects in the oil sands has jumped to $85 a barrel, an increase of $20 or 31% incontinue reading
Trust no one, part 2
Best of luck to Brent Fullard, founder of the Canadian Association of Income Trust Investors, who has worked tirelessly to keep the income trust decision in the spotlight for the last two years and who will now put his considerable energy, research, and knack for self-promotion into taking down Jim Flaherty in his new capacitycontinue reading
It’s getting hot in here
Can you feel it? Canada job market rebounds as election fever hits The headline almost implies there is some connection between the two. Given the election rumours started at the end of August, the month figures were reported for this morning, I’m not seeing it…
And so it begins
I think we know how this story goes. After months of slower sales and record-high inventory, Toronto’s real estate prices begin their descent: In the City of Toronto the average price declined one per cent to $377,990 from last August’s $381,681. Existing home sales in the city were down 25% year-over-year, which qualifies as “stable”continue reading
Palin: [pro-life, socially conservative] feminist icon
The sexism that Hillary Clinton’s run for the Democratic nomination was bad enough, but it was nothing compared to the mud being slung at Alaska governor and McCain running mate Sarah Palin. And while it was Fox-watching Republican white male dinosaurs giggling over nutcrackers in the case of Clinton, it’s girl-against-girl in the case ofcontinue reading
Wine highlights
We started a new notebook at the beginning of the year — conveniently, we were running out of pages in the old book just as 2007 was running out of days. The new notebook is apparently mainly a story of whites, which seem to have both more numerous and better than the reds we’ve tastedcontinue reading