My favourite Superheroes: the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
Liminal: at a boundary or transitional point between two conditions, stages in a process, or ways of life. Pervez Musharraf, the President of Pakistan declared a…
Read articleTerry speaker series: First up – the authors of “The 100-Mile Diet” (Friday, November 23rd, noon)
Details on obtaining tickets for this event can be found at the top by clicking home. It looks like a lot, but really it’s not (hey,…
Read articleSENSibility 5: War in Iraq and Afghanistan to cost US $2.4 Trillion by 2017
Ouch! According to a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the combined cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will reach US$2.4 trillion by 2017.…
Read articleZeitgeist: Food for lots of thought
As part of the Facebook frenzy as of late, I was directly towards a group supporting a documentary called “Zeitgeist.” I must admit that I simultaneously…
Read articleSENSibility 4: Gore’s Film has Nine Errors (But Students can Still Watch It)
A British High Court judge has ruled that Al Gore’s climate film, An Inconvenient Truth, contains nine “scientific errors.” According to Justice Burton, the nine “errors”…
Read articleLandscape vs. Public Space: Homelessness and Vancouver’s Olympic Bid
Vancouver is poised on the brink of World Citydom, and those closest to the Olympic project can almost taste it. David Cobb, senior vice president of…
Read articleSo Long, Development, and Thanks for All the Fish.
Aid: Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Development: Teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime. Modernization: If we could…
Read articleMichael Ignatieff is coming for a chat!
Well, actually he is coming to give a “talk” but what the heck. Most Canadians know Michael Ignatieff as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Opposition…
Read articleYou’re not a physicist, but want to get your physics fix? Not a problem – Lee Smolin is coming to UBC.
This is cool. Just noticed that Lee Smolin is coming to St. John’s College next week (Oct 10th). He’s a great science writer, who recently published…
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The Way Forward in Canada’s Intervention Policy.
By Gordon C. Hawkins,
In the wake of complex multidimensional conflicts like Afghanistan and Iraq, the principle of humanitarian intervention as an effective and robust doctrine is under threat. The…
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