June 2010

The iPad: a renaissance for newspapers and magazines?

June 29, 2010 Media

One of the main reasons I got an iPad was to switch my many different subscriptions to newspapers and magazines away from paper. After celebrating my iPad’s first-month “birthday”, I can now say that the “experiment” has been nothing if not a full success. I think Steve Jobs was right: the iPad will change the [...]

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Senseless destruction of property is a crime, not democratic action

June 27, 2010 Society

Freedom of speech is one of the key elements of democracy. All governments make mistakes sometimes, but before they correct themselves, it will often take the loud voices of the electorate to shame them into doing the right thing. Street protests, marches or demonstrations are legitimate tools of voicing dissent. Destruction of public and private [...]

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Britain is right to cap immigration

June 26, 2010 Politics

Britain plans to put a temporary limit on the number of non-European Union migrants to prevent a surge of foreign workers arriving before a permanent cap is introduced next April. via www.ft.com It is high time Britain limited the number of non-EU immigrants that can enter the country. There’s talk of limiting the number to [...]

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Authoritative parents produce decent children

June 25, 2010 Society

Peer influence is known to be a major factor in whether teens binge-drink. But it turns out that parents play a part as well: A Brigham Young University study reveals that those with an authoritative, nurturing style were the least likely to have children who drink heavily. via www.theglobeandmail.com There you have it: authoritative and [...]

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Obama extremely unpopular with Americans

June 25, 2010 Politics

Americans are more pessimistic about the state of the country and less confident in President Barack Obama’s leadership than at any point since Mr. Obama entered the White House, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. via online.wsj.com Obama could well go down in the history books as the most unpopular president in [...]

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What would you pay for an education?

June 24, 2010 Society

Britain has certainly seen better days. Now that the Lib-Con budget is out, and Britons are getting ready to tighten their belts, there’ll be a lot of major cuts to services and programmes up and down the country. Apart from cuts to housing and child benefits, universities too will have to learn to do with [...]

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Oil sands aren’t dirty

June 24, 2010 Politics

Environment Minister Jim Prentice on Wednesday trumpeted the Harper government’s climate-change action in advance of this week’s global leaders summit, but his upbeat message was undermined when 50 members of U.S. Congress announced their opposition to growing imports from Canada’s “filthy” oil sands. via www.theglobeandmail.com What these 50 congressmen should learn first, before they start [...]

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Obama overstepped his authority

June 23, 2010 Politics

A federal judge Tuesday overturned the Obama administration’s six-month moratorium on new deep-water oil and gas drilling, delivering a temporary victory to the oil industry and a rebuke to the White House. The temporary injunction by U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman appears unlikely to bring a swift resumption of deep-water drilling: Oil companies say [...]

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CSIS warns of spy infiltration

June 23, 2010 Politics

At least two provincial cabinet ministers and a number of other government officials and employees are under the control of foreign countries as part of espionage schemes, Canada’s top security official said Tuesday. In an exclusive interview on CBC’s The National, CSIS director Richard Fadden said foreign powers are infiltrating Canadian political circles and influencing [...]

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G20/G8 summits in Toronto are a waste of money

June 22, 2010 Politics

[No] reasonable population should expect this kind of financial burden for two meetings over three days that is roughly the same as the one for playing host over a month to the Winter Olympics and Paralympics. via www.theglobeandmail.com Jeffrey Simpson is right on the money. The G20/G8 summits are a colossal waste of money. And [...]

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