It was interesting to hear the always-estimable Rick MacInnes-Rae interview Robert Hirsch on CBC national this past Sunday. Rick is a steady and reassuring voice on foreign policy and big issues, and so the fact he was interviewing Hirsch, the author of the key report on Peak Oil,  the aptly-named ...

Plenty of gloomy books have appeared on the current financial crisis and various aspects thereof. I found 13 of them (as listed below) a few weeks ago while digging around for some summer reading. I was tempted to read several of them -- but as it turned out, some work ...

With their staid and conservative cultures, Canadian banks have weathered the global financial crisis relatively well. They didn’t get as reckless in their lending and other business practices to the extent U.S. banks did, so they have come through with relatively clean balance sheets and twice the return on assets. ...