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Facts, and Opinions, this week

F&O ranges this week from extremist attacks to Starbucks’ red cups; from the trouble with America’s news media to HONY; from the science behind picky-eating cats, to how Jihadi John — reportedly killed  — came to be.  Find essential facts, and analysis that  goes behind the headlines and off the beaten track: Focus on the Paris attacks: Our selective grief: Paris, Beirut, Ankara, and Syria TOM REGAN: Summoning Orenda Column France vows “merciless” response Reuters  Report Notebook: IS claims responsibility, world reacts Reuters  Report Scores killed in Paris attacks Reuters, Report & Photo-gallery Why people distrust news media, Tom Regan, Summoning Orenda column The reason the media consistently ranks so low on surveys of public

Attacks rock France

PARIS (Reuters) – France was rocked by multiple, near simultaneous attacks on entertainment sites around Paris on Friday evening and French media said at least 60 people were killed and hostages were being held in a concert hall in the capital. The apparently coordinated gun and bomb attacks came as the country, a founder member of the U.S.-led coalition waging air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, was on high alert for terrorist attacks ahead of a global climate conference that opens later this month. Western security sources said they suspected an Islamist militant group was behind

In Remembrance

Canada’s Legion Magazine commissioned a video to mark the centenary of the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, read by Leonard Cohen. ICYMI, from F&O archives: Far from Flanders Fields  Deborah Jones, Free Range column It’s at Ypres that my imagination falters, along with my tenuous grasp of poet John McCrae’s identity, and interest in the tiresome debate over the merits and meanings of his poem In Flanders Fields. It’s because of Ypres I am unable to imagine a man with the sensitivity of a poet and the intelligence of a physician harbouring “romantic” notions of war in the conditions of 1915 trench warfare.

A finding, and F&O’s lineup

From our Findings file: for thinky types and policy wonks, the Disruptive Innovation Festival — site here — might be of interest. From November 2 – 20, mostly online but also in physical locations around the world, the annual festival “brings together entrepreneurs, designers, industry, makers, learners and doers to explore and respond to the changing economy.” Sponsored by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in the U.K., topics range from the sweeping, such as the circular economy, to the specifics, such as energy-efficient cooling with charcoal.   The videos remain online for anyone to watch, free, at their leisure. Here’s a taste from 2014, of previous festival

Trade, Elvis, Chalabi, priest abuse, VW, global unknowns — and World Indigenous Games: F&O this week

World Indigenous Games, a photo-essay by Ueslei Marcelino Ahead of the Summer Olympics in 2016, Brazil is host to a new event – the World Indigenous Games. Ahmed Chalabi: Death of a Salesman, by Jonathan Manthorpe, F&O International Affairs column Ahmed Chalabi is lucky he died this week. Had he lived longer, he would have faced yet more charges that he is personally responsible for Middle East death and destruction. Priest sex abuse: before Boston, there was Newfoundland, by Tom Regan, Summoning Orenda columnist It was a bombshell: a local paper printed an exposé on sexual abuse by Catholic religious figures. No, I’m not talking

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