January 26, 2012 RSS feed / Columns

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Looking back at a previous ‘ice age’

I am a creature of a different era, an age of ice, in the context of both geography and time. Recent news broadcasts provide a reminder of the importance of ice in northern Canada even today. More...

Popular promises that won’t be kept

You’ve all heard the old story about the kid who murders his parents only to plead for mercy from the judge on the grounds that he’s an orphan. Well, governments are much like that. More...

Public encouraged to make up own mind

There is considerable debate about the relationship between wind turbines and reported human health effects. More...

RIM and new CEO should refocus on core business

Research In Motion Ltd. and its new CEO, Thorsten Heins, should not try to replicate Apple Inc. or Google Inc. More...

The risk of Islamist coups

The eastern half of what used to be Pakistan narrowly escaped a military coup last month. More...

A north wind doth blow . . . (III)

I n England, The Manchester Ship Canal was begun in 1887. What is now called the “Long Depression” (then it was called the Great Depression) had seized the industrialized northern midlands of England since the early-1870s. More...

Educating the Hopeful Man

I n the Land of the Grey People, there arose a Hopeful Man, whose country had sunk into very bad times. More...