One of the things that struck me as I was watching the Canadian English-language leaders debate this past Thursday was the amount of attention given to environmental issues. Although this was encouraging (and producing of condescending smirks towards our southerly neighbours), I was also uneasy about the particular focus on the oil sands in Alberta […]
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Richard Florida’s work on the connection between good urbanism, creativity and economics is interesting, convincing and timely. He has given an excellent overview of the historical and cultural causes of the current financial crisis that I have seen at the Globe and Mail. If you need a quote before you read it, here’s one:
The real reason […]
I generally hold that Thomas Friedman is an idiot. His unwavering, utopian support of globalization and “free” markets causes me to wonder whether he is evil or just plain stupid. However, this op-ed had some good things to say:
After appointments here in Copenhagen, I was riding in a car back to my hotel at the 6 […]
Although I’ve been speaking this way for a few years now, I was surprised by this quote:
The world is now facing an oil crisis few predicted and even fewer are prepared for. It’s impossible to understate how crucial cheap oil has become to our way of life. It’s shaped how we get our food, what we […]
This has to be one of the more fascinating stories I’ve seen in a long time. New Yorker Julio Diaz gets robbed at knifepoint, and then calls out to his mugger that “If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you […]
Combining the subprime mortgage crisis, surveys indicating that only 1/3 of suburbanites are content with their living arrangement and current examples of degeneration in the ‘burbs, theAtlantic.com asks if the suburbs are indeed The Next Slum? (HT: Erika)
It’s a fairly well-written article which shies away from apocaylptic utterances, but I found that it was, in […]
