Global Leaders Call On Canada To Fight Climate Change In New Ad
African leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jay Naidoo of former President Nelson Mandela’s cabinet, and Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, on Wednesday released an ad calling on Canada to step up the battle against global warming, rather than actively promote the use of its tar [...]
What Emotional Intelligence Is and Is Not
Does emotional intelligence exist – and if so, is it of any importance? It first helps to know what emotional intelligence is and is not. What Emotional Intelligence Is My colleague Peter Salovey (now Provost of Yale University) and I introduced the theory of EI and a demonstration of how it might be measured in two 1990 [...]
2011 important but most underreported stories by media
Canadian companies, an international agreement and care for the elderly are targeted on NewsWatch Canada’s 2011 list of the 25 top important most underreported stories by media nationally. The media watchdog group, based in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, will release its annual report at a presentation on Wed., Nov. 30, 1:30 p.m. at SFU’s Burnaby campus. [...]
Eurozone Crisis Threatens Global Economy
As a breakup of the eurozone — a once seemingly impossible scenario — becomes increasingly likely, economists are starting to sketch out what a post-euro world would look like. Many are warning that if political leaders don’t change course, a breakup of the eurozone would plunge the United States and the rest [...]
The euro: Beware of falling masonry
The crisis in the euro area is turning into a panic and dragging the zone into recession. The risk that the currency disintegrates within weeks is alarmingly high FIRST Greece; then Ireland and Portugal; then Italy and Spain. Month by month, the crisis in the euro area has crept from the vulnerable [...]
Does Midlife Feel Like “The Long Slide Home?”
That’s how a man in his 50s described his life to me not long ago: “It’s my long slide home.” He was feeling morose, anticipating the long holiday period from Thanksgiving through the New Year and what he knew it would arouse in him. I often see the “holiday blues” strike people during this [...]
November will be Whiskeylicious
Brown-Forman Canada launches brand new Canadian Whiskey to market. Collingwood Canadian Whiskey Canadian Mist General Manager David Dobbin performed the first toast to celebrate the launch of Collingwood Canadian Whiskey at the Collingwood LCBO on Wednesday, August 31st. Local restaurants and businesses are celebrating the launch of the new Collingwood Whiskey by creating special recipes and menu [...]
Waiter, There’s An Industrial Chemical In My Soup
BPA Levels Jump After Eating Canned Soup Adults who ate canned soup daily showed a jump in levels of the plasticizer BPA in their urine, according to a small study. The study of 75 people in Tuesday’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is one of the first to quantify [...]
Famous Failures
When people speak of a “fear of failure,” they are really describing a hazy free-floating malaise and feeling of worry or discontent which induces lethargy and explains lack of effort. This malaise protects us from the anxiety that comes with freedom and taking risks. We tranquilize our lives by limiting the amount of anxiety [...]
Fears in Arctic over rigged energy choices
Theres something of a new sunrise in the Arctic this year. And Im not just talking about the spectacularly beautiful event that begins every spring day. The Arctic Sunrise is a ship belonging to Greenpeace, which has done battle in many corners of the world against most things that the organisation detests. [...]
The Nutcracker – Ontario Ballet … Meaford Ontario Canada
ON STAGE AT MEAFORD HALL The Nutcracker – Ontario Ballet November 28, 2008 Ontario Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker has been recreated in the grand style of the original Kirov version. This 90-minute masterpiece is ballet's most popular and enchanting classic. The plot satisfies one of our basic emotional needs: it appeals not only [...]
You aren’t depressed; our brains just aren’t equipped for 21st-century life
In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a “disease of affluence,” a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world. People who live in poorer countries have a lower risk of depression than those in industrialized [...]
Ageing: Forever young?
BIOLOGISTS have made a lot of progress in understanding ageing. They have not, however, been able to do much about slowing it down. Particular versions of certain genes have been shown to prolong life, but that is no help to those who do not have them. A piece of work reported in [...]
Cleaning up Japan’s nuclear mess: The twilight zone
IT IS another world beyond the roadblocks stopping unauthorised traffic from entering the 20km (12.5-mile) exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The few people inside are dressed in ghostly white protective suits. Town after town was abandoned after March 11th, and spiders have strung webs across the doorways. An old lady’s [...]
Are the Kardashians Keeping Up Appearances?
I got caught in another Kardashians marathon yesterday. It’s shameful, I know. My knowledge of Kardashian show trivia is unfortunately higher than it should be. Let’s be honest, they didn’t exactly get into the spotlight under the most favorable of conditions. The late Robert Kardashian was a lawyer involved in the O.J. Simpson [...]