Other Voices

CITIES – Disasters: When lending a helping hand becomes official policy

May 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

THE GREAT disaster scholar Joe Scanlon told me that individuals perform well and organizations perform poorly in crises. Anyone who has been in a big storm in Montreal has [Continue]

NIEMAN – If you won’t do it for the planet, do it for the money

May 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

A FEW DAYS ago, I took a call from a polling company hired by my city to gauge public awareness of ecological issues and City council’s new master plan on the environment. [Continue]

TAUBE – Did France put an end to the new nationalism?

May 10, 2017 // 1 Comment

IN RECENT YEARS, Europe and North America have faced a rising political force called the new nationalism. It’s a cobbling of right-leaning and left-leaning parties and [Continue]

MICALLEFF – Putin’s risky Syrian gambit is not serving him well

May 9, 2017 // 1 Comment

RUSSIA INTERVENED intervened in the Syrian Civil War in September 2015, with the deployment of a range of 65 bombers and fighters, 16 attack helicopters and roughly 4,000 [Continue]

MacFADYEN – Hillary Clinton plays the blame game, shamelessly

May 8, 2017 // 1 Comment

THERE’S A SCENE in The Godfather: Part III where Michael Corleone – as played by Al Pacino – regrets his inability to escape from a life of organized crime and [Continue]

MICALLEF – Mystery still swirls around Hitler’s death 72 years later

May 7, 2017 // 2 Comments

THE SECOND World War ended 72 years ago. Historians have produced a voluminous history chronicling its course. Yet almost three-quarters of a century later, there are still [Continue]