SUZUKI – Long work hours don’t work for people or the planet
IN 1926, U.S. automaker Henry Ford reduced his employees’ work week from six eight-hour days to five, with no pay cuts. It’s something workers and labour unions had been [Continue]
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CITIES – Disasters: When lending a helping hand becomes official policy
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
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?
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
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
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]
