• Bloomberg notes the rail boom in Bangladesh, looks at the fall in the value of the pound, notes a German proposal to give young Britons German citizenship and observes Spanish concern over giving Scotland a voice, looks at competition between Paris and Frankfurt to get jobs from the City of London, looks at how a Chinese takeover of an American ham ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes concern in Northern Ireland's border towns over Brexit, reports that Morgan may shift its offices from London to Dublin or Frankfurt, and looks at the hostile reaction Donald Trump is likely to receive in Scotland.
• Bloomberg View looks at the vexed issues of American funding for Israel's defense industry.
• The CBC notes the discovery ( Read more... )

• The BBC reports from Asmara, Eritrea's capital, on the eve of war.
• Bloomberg notes the economic problems of Hong Kong and Singapore, looks at the final day of campaigning in the Brexit referendum, and notes the interim president of Brazil's desire to oust Rousseff.
• Bloomberg View takes issue with the rejection of nuclear energy in the name of the ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes Japan's neglected geothermal potential, looks at one Nobel laureate's concern over Brexit's fallout, examines Thailand's economic success, and looks at how labuor shortages are hindering Swedish economic growth.
• Bloomberg View looks at the role of Brazil's supreme court in fighting top-level corruption, and suggests the only thing ( Read more... )

CBC News' Éric Grenier considers the prospects for a revival of the right in Canada. He's not convinced there will be much of an upwards bump outside of the Prairies.

Two provinces are heading to the polls in April, and in both cases the main right-of-centre party on the ballot is expected to win: the opposition Progressive Conservatives under ( Read more... )

CBC's Rosanna Deerchild has an interesting story about how old native entrepreneur is dealing with a "food desert" in part of downtown Winnipeg by opening up an indigenous-theme grocery store.

Neechi Commons sales and marketing coordinator Kelly Edwards says the indigenous-owned supermarket is bringing healthy, affordable food - and jobs - to one ( Read more... )

CBC News' Don Pittis reports on this experiment by the Winnipeg Free Press.

Despite its name, regular readers of the Winnipeg Free Press can no longer see articles for free ( Read more... )

This CBC report about complaints lodged against a Tintin graphic novel for its allegedly racist stereotypes of First Nations people surprises me only in that it came so recently to light.

A First Nations educator asked a Winnipeg Chapters to pull the comic Tintin in America from its shelves on Saturday, citing "the impact of racist images and ( Read more... )

Tamsin McMahon's article in The Globe and Mail noting how the condo boom is starting to bust in Canada outside of Toronto and Vancouver makes for worrisome reading. What will happen to the Canadian economy?

When the federal government tightened mortgage rules in 2012, overheated condo markets in Toronto and Vancouver were widely seen as the main ( Read more... )

Edwin Dobb's National Geographic article, well-illustrated by the photographs of Greg Girard, notes how at least some Canadian First Nations are trying to regain control of their traditional territorries with the goal of protecting their natural environments.

[T]he effort to regain control of ancestral land has become a potent environmental ( Read more... )