Empowering African entrepreneurs
Program teaches young people to write business plans, aims to help build business
View ArticleBrain food II: Smart aid for Africa
If you unleash some of those hundreds of millions of minds you help Africa and you help the world.
View ArticleDeadly stampede at University of Johannesburg
Students had been waiting in line for days
View ArticleShh! He might hear you
Last week, Jim Abbott was quite insistent that “no one” wanted to debate the issue. Today, Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth told aid groups to “shut the f— up.” Glen Pearson, meanwhile, lends a...
View ArticleDon’t shoot anybody well-dressed
On Thursday, Miss Universe Canada contestant Tiffany Munro wedged a big Miu Miu mule into her mouth while trying to encourage self-awareness about body image amongst some Oshawa high-school students....
View ArticleThe Ignatieff doctrine
The Liberal leader is presently outlining his foreign policy in a speech to a Toronto audience. Simultaneously the Liberals have released a policy paper outlining the vision and various tangible...
View ArticleThe Dewar doctrine
Amid all else this day, the NDP’s Paul Dewar convened a news conference to outline his side’s hopes for the upcoming G8 and G20 summits, including more action on foreign aid and development assistance,...
View ArticleBrain food II: Smart aid for Africa
The other $20 million the Prime Minister announced today at Perimeter Institute may be the smartest and boldest investment a Canadian government has made in development assistance in decades. It’s $20...
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Follow the Intrepid Explorer; One-Stop Arizona Shopping
Celebrated Explorer to Lead Tours to the Far Corners of the Earth Kensington Tours is a different kind of tour operator. It is the creation of explorer and Royal Geographic Society Fellow Jeff Willner,...
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What’s the new global source for fresh, shiny produce?
Nancy MacDonald/ REUTERS/Stringer Visit a supermarket in Abu Dhabi and you’ll be greeted by row after row of picture-perfect produce, most of it imported. The Indian subcontinent has long supplied food...
View ArticleThe unavoidable issue
The Globe’s Geoffrey York finds an unnamed aid organization which has received funds from the Canadian government and performs abortions in African countries where the practice is illegal. The...
View ArticleThe unavoidable issue (II)
Elizabeth Payne talks to International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda and detects some ambiguity in the government’s position on funding abortion overseas. [It] seems more likely that Canada’s direct aid...
View Article‘Misrepresent the government’s position’
The Prime Minister’s Office tells CP the government will not be funding abortion overseas as part of its maternal health plan and a spokeswoman for International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda says Ms....
View Article‘The issue remains confusing’
The Citizen’s Elizabeth Payne follows up on her now vaguely contested column about Bev Oda and Canadian funding for abortion overseas. During an interview, she talked freely about the importance of...
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Beijing’s new playing field
Per-Anders Pettersson/ Liu JinAFP/Getty Images The general manager of the Chinese-owned Collum Coal Mining Industries in Sinazeze, the hottest, most remote corner of Zambia, is all of 24. Six months...
View ArticleForeign Affairs Clue
While the Harper government blames Michael Ignatieff, ambassadors interviewed by Canadian Press don’t mention the opposition leader. Instead, African ambassadors tell Canadian Press it was the Harper...
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Trying to end a murder spree
ReutersActivists across the world are raising awareness about the dangers faced by Africa’s albino men and women. They have been the targets in a spate of gruesome killings that have left at least 71...
View ArticleKitchen crusade
Toronto has more great restaurants than great chefs, but of the many places where the empire city’s first-rank power brokers hang out, none is more socially significant and brazenly chic than Canoe,...
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