Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Monday, June 3, 2013

Canada's corruption problem

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Barely a day goes by at the moment here in Canada without a new twist or turn in a corruption story hitting the headlines. Last week we g...
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Friday, October 5, 2012

Looking for positive outcomes from plagiarism in the Margaret Wente affair

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Following on from the earlier guest post f rom our York colleague Dawn Bazely regarding the Globe and Mail plagiarism case, we asked Da...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Are Americans working too much?

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With many people currently enjoying or looking forward to their summer holidays it is sobering to consider some of the differences in exp...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Cleaning up the "ethical oil" mess

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With Stephen Harper's government getting plenty of heat at the Durban climate conference over its decision to relegate Kyoto to the h...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Why Occupy Wall Street should occupy corporate leaders' minds

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This weekend, the Occupy Wall Street protest will go global. Protests, marches and occupations are planned across the world, with almost...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Can the Canadian oil sands really be an 'ethical' source of energy?

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The new year has got off to a bang in Canada with the new Environment Minister Peter Kent coming out of his corner fighting. According t...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

What’s wrong with Canada?

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For a long time Canada – certainly in the rest of the world – had this image of a very progressive, liberal and forward looking country in t...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Ratan Tata: corporations in the developing world have to be more paternalistic

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In the last decade, the business case for CSR (i.e. that attention to social issues needs to make sound business sense) has become something...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Oil

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While in New York recently, we took in Edward Burtynsky’s latest exhibition, ‘Oil’, at the Hasted Hunt Kreutler Gallery in Chelsea. It’s ...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

The state of CSR in Canada

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In our last post we commented on the No.1 position claimed by the Schulich School of Business in Toronto in the Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranki...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

So, what then is ‘Socialism’?

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Among the things one can’t avoid noticing after living in North America for more than two years is the bizarre use of the ‘S-word’. It recen...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

BP and alternative energy

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There was a nice feature article in the Financial Times earlier this week on BP's retreat from its alternative energy business. Headlin...
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