Insight

Is Western manufacturing going through a renaissance?

Manufacturing and engineering in the West has been in decline for decades. Major industries such as automotive manufacturing, electronic equipment production and industrial engineering have all suffered increased competition from emerging markets. However, early indications point to the fact that ...

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Finding the right problem to solve is the innovation challenge

Robert  Evans Wilson, Jr. — “If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.” Albert Einstein On the 4th of September in 1957, amid great fanfare, Ford ...

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My nuclear Armageddon and shame as a journalist

Frank Touby — Back in the 1980s when I was writing in national magazines and making a lot more in those pre-inflation, pre-recession dollars than I did as a broadcast commentator for Financial Post and as a newspaper editor today, ...

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Bee-ware: the villain Bayer is back with a new neonic

John Bennett — Flupyradifurone is a new neonicotinoid pesticide from Bayer. That’s right, another one! Here is what Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has to say about it: “Flupyradifurone may pose a risk to bees, non-target beneficial arthropods, ...

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Pardon us for existing in the middle of your military bases

Carla Stea — In a courageous and brilliant speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2014, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pierced the veil of obfuscation that characterizes too many speeches at the United Nations, and delivered ...

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Elizabeth May on counting our blessings

Elizabeth May — On this Thanksgiving weekend, I think we are all drawn toward the counting of blessings. As my new book tries to set out, I think of “who we are” as a people and as a nation. And ...

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We pay with our bodies for just-in-time big retailer profits

Frank Touby — We are paying with our bodies and our lives for transnational corporations to improve their returns on investment. It’s an outrage that governments can and must be forced to end. The deadly practice known as “just-in-time” (or ...

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India Sells out to Monsanto, GMOs & the ‘Bigger Picture’

 Colin Todhunter — On 15 August, India will mark its 67th anniversary of independence from Britain. It may seem strange to some that a nation would publicly celebrate its independence while at the same time it less publicly cedes it ...

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We empower bullies with our admiration

Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. — VIDEO BELOW Bullying has been in the news a lot lately. Awareness of the problem has spawned a number of programs designed to combat it. While I applaud this effort, I don’t see bullying going ...

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Pesticides found in ‘bee-friendly’ plants at garden centres

Maria Leung — A new study by Friends of the Earth Canada shows that over 60% of “bee-friendly” home garden plants sold at garden centers have been pre-treated with neonicotinoids (neonics) pesticides shown to harm and kill bees. Of the ...

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