JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs October, 2015 China’s drive for wealth and power is stumbling and could collapse over the country’s lack of water and its gross mismanagement of the resources it does have. China’s 1.3 billion people make up 20 per cent
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS October, 2015 Kenny Rogers was having a musical-identity crisis at age 39 when I spoke with him in 1977 before a club gig in Calgary. At that point his beard was already turning salt-and-pepper and the wrinkles were
Happy Thanksgiving from Canada, where F&O is based and where many of our readers reside. Canada’s thanksgiving has nothing of the glitz and commercialism of America’s famous festival a month later. Here it is, perhaps like Canada itself, more moderate, a celebration of feasts and gatherings, rooted in the northerly harvest season.
JONATHAN MANTHORPE: International Affairs October 9, 2015 In the ranks of “barbaric cultural practices,” the United States’ addiction to firearms is among the most deadly. As of October 9th, 10,193 people had been killed by gunfire in the U.S. this year. That means
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A tragedy looms on the horizon, warns Mark Carney, one of the world’s most influential central bankers. “Our societies face a series of profound environmental and social challenges,” he said in a speech to Lloyd’s of London. “The combination of the weight of scientific evidence
TOM REGAN: SUMMONING ORENDA October, 2015 There comes a moment when every country has to go through a “dark night of the soul.” That moment when the country loses its moral moorings and drifts off into a miasma of racism and bigotry
By Tom Regan What to read? What to read? So much material, so little time. So we here at Facts and Opinions want to help. Starting this week, we’ll have some recommended reading for you from across the web, and the odd archive
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS October, 2015 He had made his mark at age 24 when his first single, “Honeycomb,” sold a million copies in the United States. He quickly followed that with two more million-sellers, “Kisses Sweeter than Wine” and “Oh-Oh, I’m
Leading up to the UN Climate Conference in Paris in December, Reuters has a series of photo-essays titled “Earthprints,” each installment aiming to “show the ability of humans to impact change on the landscape of the planet,” accompanied with NASA satellite images showing the scale of the change. Here,
