Meanwhile, in Canada...

A billionaire Ontario developer with an Order of Canada, a senior vice-president with media giant Rogers Communications and the owners of Winnipeg's famed Nutty Club candy factory are among numerous wealthy Canadians who appear to be linked to a secret tax dodge in the Isle of Man, according to an investigation by CBC's the ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, in Canada, Hell also froze over...

After two years of clamping down under the mantra of getting the fiscal house in order, Quebec's government has delivered a surplus budget that opens the spending taps, albeit cautiously ( Read more... )

"Thrilling" isn't a word I often apply to books about higher education, but these pages galvanized me. Last December, I concluded 27 years of college teaching and, for now, I still feel a part of campus culture. I'm in contact with colleagues (locally, nationally and internationally) who feel burned by this corporate model. They work long hours yet ( Read more... )

Stories marveling at the stupidity of Trump voters are published nearly every day. Articles that accuse Trump’s followers of being bigots have appeared by the hundreds, if not the thousands. Conservatives have written them; liberals have written them; impartial professionals have written them. The headline of a recent Huffington Post column ( Read more... )

Is Kevin O’Leary a good or bad businessman ( Read more... )

'Love this article; it's not specifically "buddhist", but simply wise.

I’ve moved to the other side of the street to avoid it. I’ve lowered my eyes so that I didn’t have to acknowledge it. I’ve brushed it off with excuses to make me feel a little less guilty ( Read more... )

Originally posted by luvdovz at It's almost-Christmas in Finland
The news that Finland will be granting 800 euro to everyone every month has circled around the world media. It smacked of social revolution, at least at a first reading. Once the dust had settled, what shaped out was something like the end of that old Swedish movie, which turned out to be a ( Read more... )

Review of Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers. The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 352 pp. Hardcover, $49.95.

Karl Polanyi is not an easy man to pigeonhole. He is best known as the author of The Great Transformation (hereafter GT). The hand which penned that story of transformation ( Read more... )

Over the years, the village has boasted two blacksmiths, two garages and a car dealership, the biggest strawberry plant in the Maritimes, a co-op store, two warehouses for potatoes, two fish plants, a movie theatre, a box factory, a handle factory, a dentist and two doctors. At least 50 local residents served in the Second World War ( Read more... )

...Wu’s conclusion about Egyptian women workers is simple: as long as they lack a basic desire to escape the familiar, it’s unlikely that they will change anything fundamental about their lives. He sees Egypt in similar terms. “It would have been better if they hadn’t removed Mubarak,” he told me. I often hear such comments from Chinese ( Read more... )