'Acts of war'

By Aaron Wherry - Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 4:28 PM - 57 Comments

From Paris, the Prime Minister comments on the Libya campaign.

“We should not kid ourselves. Whenever we engage in military action — essentially acts of war — these are difficult situations,” Harper said at the end of an emergency summit, hastily convened in Paris to deal with the crisis. “And we will have to monitor this very closely and be very careful what we do every step of the way.”

Harper said the no-fly zone that Canada, France, Britain and others have agreed to enforce over Libyan skies is a complicated affair that could involve loss of innocent lives. Enforcing a no-fly zone could involve attacking Gadhafi air defence forces, among other things. Minimizing civilian casualties was a serious topic of discussion among his fellow leaders, Harper said. “These campaigns are complicated and one cannot promise perfection. One cannot promise there will not be casualties on our side either. But obviously all precautions will be taken to minimize our own casualties and minimize those of innocent civilians.”

The campaign has begun with French, American and British military strikes.

Ignatieff's roots, immigrant and otherwise

By John Geddes - Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 12:37 PM - 162 Comments

The Conservative response to a recent Liberal video, in which Michael Ignatieff talks about his Russian father coming to Canada, has been posted on here and here. Obviously, the Tory line that Ignatieff’s immigrant roots count for less because he descends from Russian aristocracy is an example of the crudest partisan spin.

Still, it’s true that the Liberal leader’s family background is far from typical. And it’s also the case that we’re lucky enough to know a great deal about Ignatieff’s fascinating lineage, thanks to two of his books—1987′s The Russian Album, in which he meditates on his father’s side, and 2009′s True Patriot Love, in which he explores three generations of the famous Canadian Grants, his mother’s clan.

If you’re interested, The Russian Album is a great read and True Patriot Love is, well, a fast one with some good parts. If you’re not inclined to pick them up, I reviewed True Patriot Love at some length here, and used that as a welcome excuse to reconsider The Russian Album.

On what Ignatieff had to say about his father, the revered diplomat George Ignatieff (who was alive when The Russian Album was published but has since died), I pulled what I think is a telling quote: “He presented himself to the world throughout my childhood as the model of an assimilated Canadian professional… And to this day he is a much more patriotic and sentimental Canadian than I am.”

In this, at least, it seems a fairly classic immigrant story: that of the generation who found a home here trying, against the odds, to instill in their kids that newcomer’s sense of gratitude.

'The Ignatieffs were not typical immigrants'

By Aaron Wherry - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 9:15 PM - 149 Comments

In a missive this evening, apparently in response to this video, the Conservative party takes issue with Mr. Ignatieff’s family heritage and apparently seeks to debate who can rightfully claim to be an immigrant.

While the Ignatieffs have made the most of their coming to Canada in their respective fields, they have never ceased to enjoy great privilege, as a function of the financial and educational resources and social status they brought with them, and which are theirs to this day.  The Ignatieff immigrant experience is one of significant wealth, first-rate educations and privilege. Very few Canadian families can claim this “immigrant experience.”

Mr. Ignatieff’s father, George, served for nearly 50 years in the Canadian civil service. The website for Citizenship and Immigration Canada describes his life story here. For whatever it is worth—assuming one wishes to engage in a debate over the exact socioeconomic status of a politician’s late father and the worthiness of such—that biography includes the observation that, upon arriving in Canada, his family had “barely enough money for basic necessities.”

'One either believes in freedom or one just says one believes in freedom'

By Aaron Wherry - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:32 PM - 84 Comments

Amid all else, the Prime Minister announced this morning that Canada will be participating in the enforcement of the United Nations resolution against Libya. Parliament will apparently be consulted and formal approval will apparently be required if the mission is extended beyond three months. Mr. Harper is on his way tonight to a summit in Paris to discuss the matter with other world leaders.

Herein, his remarks to reporters today.

Good morning. Since the crisis in Libya first began, Canada has taken a strong and decisive position.  Working closely with our allies, we have evacuated Canadian citizens, put in place tough sanctions and called on the Gadhafi regime to stop the bloodshed and immediately step down. Despite these actions, the situation in Libya remains intolerable.

Last night, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution endorsing immediate action to protect Libyan citizens from the threat of further slaughter.  Canada, in cooperation with our allies and other members of the international community, worked to gain support for this resolution.  We will now take the urgent action necessary to support it.

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Radiation serious enough to kill

By macleans.ca - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 6:39 PM - 5 Comments

Akio Korimi, the managing director of Tokyo Electric Power, the company behind the devastated nuclear reactor at Fukushima wept leaving a press conference at which he admitted the radiation spewing from overheated reactors and fuel rods was strong enough to kill citizens. At the same conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano also admitted officials should have admitted earlier how serious the radiation leaks are. Meanwhile, the deputy director general of the NISA, Hideohiko Nishiyama, also admitted that they do not know if the reactors are coming under control: “With the water-spraying operations, we are fighting a fire we cannot see. That fire is not spreading, but we cannot say yet that it is under control.”

Daily Mail

The Commons: Confusion clarified and epitomized

By Aaron Wherry - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 6:14 PM - 62 Comments

By her own reckoning, Bev Oda was here to address “the confusion.” ”At the outset,” she said, “let me state that I take full responsibility for the confusion my initial answers created—and I apologize for that.”

Of course, this was not quite the “outset.” Depending on when one starts the clock on this matter, Ms. Oda’s present predicament could be said to date back months, perhaps more than a year. Indeed, were this really the “outset,” she would not have had to show up here this morning to read from a prepared statement that, when distributed to the reporters present, included 12 footnotes and three appendices.

“I’m here today,” she continued, “to explain to this committee, and to the public, why, initially, I did not understand how my answers were creating confusion.”

Here was a tribute to the qualified statement—a four-page monologue that could plausibly qualify as an experiment in post-modern poetry or at least a brilliant satire. ”There was no intention to mislead the committee members,” she said of  her appearance before the foreign affairs committee in December. “I now realize that from someone else’s perspective it was confusing … People listening to my answers might have thought that I signed the document and then after that someone added the word “not.” That didn’t occur to me because I knew that wasn’t what happened. At the time I did not see the confusion that my answer would cause, and I apologize for creating confusion.”

By way of conclusion, she offered a sentence so beautifully crafted that it should be immediately hammered onto a plaque and hung above the entrance to the House of Commons. Continue…

Former Harper aide sought perks for escort fiancée

By macleans.ca - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 5:01 PM - 17 Comments

Bruce Carson, a former senior advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, lobbied the Ministry of Indian Affairs on behalf of H20 Pros, a water company that was selling shoddy filtration systems to First Nations reserves. The Ottawa-based water company on whose behalf Carson was lobbying to Indian Affairs employed his fiancée, Michele McPherson, who was an escort, reports APTN. A secret contract witnessed by Carson guaranteed that McPherson, 22, would receive 20 per cent of gross revenues from sales related to water contracts on First Nations reserves.

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Toronto Star

How a minister of the crown conveys her wishes

By Aaron Wherry - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 4:08 PM - 43 Comments

More on Bev Oda’s appearance at committee this morning in a bit, but the government side has apparently now turned over two documents to demonstrate that ungrammatical editing was not entirely uncommon within her department.

Oda apologizes

By macleans.ca - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM - 20 Comments

On Friday, International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda apologized to MPs for her handling of a funding decision for a church-based relief group Kairos. “I take full responsibility for the confusion,” said Oda. But, she says, it was the clumsy bureaucratic process in her office that led to the confusion. At issue was a document with a handwritten addition of the word “not”. Oda says that the process has since been changed to eliminate handwritten additions to documents. She was testifying before a House of Commons committee, which will determine whether or not she was in contempt of Parliament.

Winnipeg Free Press

Things we can learn from Michael Ignatieff's father

By Aaron Wherry - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 2:46 PM - 81 Comments

A new video from the Liberal side.

Second spot here.

Opening Weekend: 'Limitless,' 'Jane Eyre,' 'Paul'

By Brian D. Johnson - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 2:17 PM - 1 Comment

Bradley Cooper in 'Limitless'

In the aftermath of the awards season, we scan the bleak horizon of new releases as if looking for signs of spring in frozen ground. Slim pickings. But this week boasts a surprisingly decent crop, and something for every taste. A scintillating Bradley Cooper is wired on super smart drugs and spars with Robert De Niro in Limitless; Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbinder breathe fresh life into the classic bones of Jane Eyre; and Seth Rogen brings his gruff charm to the role of chain-smoking, superannuated  E.T. in Paul, opposite Brit buddies Simon Pegg and Nick Frost .

Paul is the weakest of the three films, a forced marriage between sharp English wit and the broad overkill of SNL sketch comedy. But even though this ramshackle road movie is less than the sum of its gags, there are ample laughs, while Pegg and Frost (who wrote the script) have some priceless moments as comic book nerds agog in the redneck wilds of America. For more on Paul, go to my video review.

Limitless, meanwhile, is an unadulterated blast. Rising star Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) makes a meal of his first leading role, cast as Eddie, a down-and-out writer who stumbles across a miracle drug—a transparent little pill that harnesses 100 per cent of his brain power and makes him super-smart. Eddie finishes his book in days, learns to play the piano overnight, masters foreign languages in a flash, and embarks on a business plan to conquer Wall Street. In his pharma-fueled rampage, there’s more than an echo of the ’80s cocaine craze that made various masters of the universe feel invincible, but the dream drug in Limitless, called NZT, seems vastly superior to any of its recreational antecedents. NZT won’t make you high; it just makes you “clear.” It seems like the perfect drug—as long as your stash doesn’t run dry—then things get nasty. Limitless is the kind of drug-porn flick that carries a vicarious kick. You can’t help but think:  “I’ll have what he’s having.” And behind the quick wit and instant gratification lies the hot pulse of a crime movie—it has the ingenuity of  soft-core Tarantino as various gangsters battle to control the NZT supply in a quest for world domination.

This brain candy fantasy is directed with eye-candy flair by Neil Burger (The Illusionist), who turns the camera into an omniscient space arm for Eddie’s quicksilver mind. But big credit goes to screenwriter Leslie Dixon (Hairspray, The Thomas Crown Affair). Her whip-smart script, adapted from a novel called Dark Fields, races along like a house-on-fire wit, convincing us that Eddie is as miraculously smart as he’s supposed to be. Her dialogue raises everyone’s game, including Robert De Niro’s. He’s cast as an old-school tycoon who uses Eddie’s wizardry to finesse a historic merger. De Niro has been on cruise control for years, but here he suddenly seems engaged, challenged.

Although Limitless is very much a guy movie—about men trying to stoke their unlimited ambition with an unlimited fuel supply—Abbie Cornish, who shone in the underrated Bright Star, makes the most of an underwritten role as Eddie’s love interest. As for Bradley Cooper, he’s made his career playing cold-blooded alpha males, kinda like an American Christian Bale. Here he’s cast in a heroic, sympathetic role, but the unnatural glare of those electric blue eyes animates the story’s Faustian theme with an ungodly glint of ambition.

For more on Limitless, and the current trend in brain-powered thrillers, see my piece in the magazine: Hollywood decides smart is now sexy. Continue…

Canadians first to pay for New York Times' free news

By Jesse Brown - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 1:34 PM - 13 Comments

When the U.S. media rolls out new services on the Internet, they often hit Canada last. Not this time.

The New York Times‘ confusing new paywall went live in Canada yesterday, 11 days before the rest of the world will get it.  It seems we’re to be their guinea pigs.  How cool to finally be ahead of the curve!  If you missed the baffling details of their new subscription scheme, here’s how it breaks down:

• You get 20 free articles a month
• Once you go over, you hit the paywall.  Pay or go home (or, y’know, go to any other online newspaper).
• Payment is $15 for 4 weeks of web and smartphone app access
• or $20 for web plus tablet app access
• or $35 for everything (shouldn’t that be $25?)
• or pay nothing, if you get to the NYT article you want through Google news or through a link on Facebook or Twitter.

Yes, that last part is for real; the Times doesn’t want to lock itself out of the benefits of social media link-sharing, so they’ve purposefully left a side-door open that allows readers to get to any article for free, just so long as they’re referred to it from Google, or from some goof’s Twitter account. (In an unrelated matter, I’d like to announce my new Twitter feed, @ShewShorkShimes.)

So who’s going to pay for this? And why will readers pay now when they ignored the Times‘ last two failed attempts to throw up a paywall?

I hate to dump on the Gray Lady (ew!), and I generally feel that the Times understands the Internet better than most papers. Their interactive features are incredible!  But this just makes no sense.

A free follow from @ShewShorkShimes to the first commenter who can explain to me what the Times is thinking here.

Japan's nuclear crisis worsens

By macleans.ca - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:57 PM - 8 Comments

The nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station continues as problems multiply for the workers tasked with controlling the crisis. Japan’s nuclear safety agency raised the severity of the crisis from 4 to 5 on a 7-level international scale (Three Mile Island was also rated 5, and Chernobyl was rated 7). Radioactive steam has been exiting the plant’s second reactor, which was hit by an explosion on Tuesday. Additionally, a crack in the stainless steel lining of the fourth reactor’s storage pool, making it very difficult to refill the pool with cooling seawater. Meanwhile, workers have been focusing their efforts on containing the situation in the plant’s third reactor, where spent fuel rods threaten to melt, thereby accelerating nuclear fission. A U.S. drone has collected visual data from the site that showed that contamination had not spread beyond the 30-km exclusion zone established around the plant.

New York Times

How to eat like an economist

By Colin Campbell - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:49 PM - 13 Comments

That is to say, how to eat the most expensive foods for the least amount of money. This piece from the New York Times, offers some useful strategy for the salad bar, where the price of a meal is based on weight (not the ingredients you chose):  “Avoid romaine ($3.06 per pound off the shelf) at all costs — and consider baby spinach ($6.67) and mesclun ($7.99) your friends.” Also avoid carrots, beets (heavy and cheap) and opt for blue cheese dressing over Italian. And if you find bacon bits, load up. They’re worth “a whopping $21.28 per pound.”

Here are some similar strategies for eating at an Indian buffet, including sticking to items that, when served as entrees on the menu, are most expensive—typically meat dishes.  “You should be good at fishing out only the high-value bits from the curry with an elegant, clean Azharuddin-worthy flick of the wrist. If a cooked-to-order masala dosa is offered, you are permitted to eat the dosa, but not the potato-based masala. The rationale behind this is that even though the dosa is made from cheap ingredients, it is a value-added product because of the specialized expertise and time required to make it properly… If others stare at you, it is their problem, not yours.”

More deep thoughts on the economics of eating out, from the Marginal Revolution blog.

'Freely and unconditionally'

By Aaron Wherry - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:47 PM - 7 Comments

Michael Geist notes that the disrepute clause has been used since 2008 and considers the larger culture change at hand.

The government may revise the licence by removing the disrepute term, but I think a larger issue will remain … if licences could talk, this one would say “this is our data and here is how we the government will allow you the public to use it.” But open government means accepting that government data is the public’s data and that the government’s obligation is not to control it, but to make it as freely and unconditionally available to the public as reasonably possible. The right approach in addressing concerns over the new Canada open data portal is not to make a small change in the licence terms by dropping the disrepute provision. It is to drop the current licence altogether, instead adopting a simplified, open licence that tells Canadians it is their data and (subject to reasonable attribution requirements) they are free to access, use, and reuse it without restrictions.

The Most Damning Promo of All Time

By Jaime Weinman - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:32 PM - 4 Comments

I was looking for one of the Two and a Half Men syndication promos that have reportedly incorporated the Sheentroversy into their advertising. I didn’t find them on YouTube, but I did find this, apparently made for a station in Augusta, Georgia. It’s quite possibly the most withering, corrosive criticism I have ever seen of Sheen’s show and its influence on culture and society, literally using its own words against it. And it was made to promote the show. Very strange.

Opposition moves to find Tories in contempt of Parliament

By macleans.ca - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:24 PM - 22 Comments

An election call could be triggered as early as next week, following the announcement by opposition parties that they will find the Harper government in contempt of Parliament and have begun efforts to put the matter to a vote in the Commons. The Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois confirmed they will work via a committee they control to produce a report for the Commons
regarding the government’s failure to divulge cost details about its tough-on-crime agenda, corporate tax cuts and plans to purchase stealth fighter jets bills. They say this “constitutes a contempt of Parliament.” The minority Conservatives are attempting to slow the effort, and it’s not clear when the opposition will deliver the report to Parliament. Once they do, though, it clears the path for a vote that officially censures the Harper government. If this comes to pass, it will mark the first time in Canadian history that a government’s been found in contempt of Parliament.

Globe and Mail

Charlie Sheen's live show coming to Toronto

By macleans.ca - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM - 2 Comments

Guess who’ll be “winning” in Canada? Charlie Sheen’s live one-man show, “My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option,” will be playing several major cities, including Toronto, which will get him at Massey Hall on Thursday, April 14th. The actor hasn’t said much about what the show will be like, except that it is “where you will hear the real story from the Warlock,” but it’s expected that he will rail against his enemies and particularly his former Two and a Half Men boss Chuck Lorre. There is no word on who will be directing the show. Maybe Julie Taymor. She’s got some free time too.

Toronto Star

Libya declares ceasefire

By macleans.ca - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 11:32 AM - 1 Comment

The Libyan government has declared an immediate ceasefire intended to protect civilians, after the UN Security Council voted on a resolution to use “all necessary measures” to protect civilians in Libya. UN Security Council Resolution 1973 authorizes taking military action, which could include bombing Col Gaddafi’s forces on the ground if necessary. Libyan Foreign Minister Mussa Kussa said Libya, as a member of the UN, was “obliged to accept the UN Security Council’s resolutions”, the BBC reports. Western powers have been deliberating further action in Libya as pro-government forces began advancing on the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

BBC

CBC

This week: Good news, bad news

By macleans.ca - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 11:27 AM - 0 Comments

Good News

End of history department

The military council provisionally ruling Egypt has scheduled a referendum on constitutional reforms that would restore judicial oversight of elections, term-limit the presidency, and take away a presidential veto over the formation of new parties. The Muslim Brotherhood and the ousted National Democratic Party favour a “yes” vote; other, newer movements are urging a “no,” saying the reforms don’t go far enough. But the referendum itself will be a milestone for the country’s transition to democracy.

Nine out of 10 ain’t bad

Ministers of health from nine provinces announced that they will create a national storage bank for blood from umbilical cords. Canadian Blood Services will manage the bank; Quebec has its own version, managed by Héma-Québec. Umbilical cord blood contains stem cells useful in treating leukemia and other blood disorders, particularly in children. Until now, the lack of a nationally registered bank for cord blood has made finding stem-cell donors difficult, especially for minorities.

You know what’s cool?

Groupon, the Web phenomenon that lets businesses offer conditional “group coupons” that kick in when a particular number of customers sign up, is facing its long-foreseen ultimate test: competition from Facebook. The social-networking giant, which is the means by which many Group­on users track new offers, will test-drive its own service for time-sensitive discounts from bricks-and-mortar businesses. Groupon rejected a US$6-billion buyout offer from Google in December.

Her royal hipness

Details of a record collection held by the late Queen Mother at a holiday retreat have revealed her penchant for the yodel stylings of Nova Scotia-born cowboy Wilf “Montana Slim” Carter (1904-1996). Carter, called the father of Canadian country music, was not the only surprising element in the consort’s collection. A tiny treasury of LPs, kept for the Queen Mum’s use at the Scottish Castle of Mey, included large helpings of ska and Paul Simon’s 1986 classic Graceland. One hopes Montana Slim’s estate is ready for a revival.

Bad News

The colonelissimo’s edge

Forces controlled by Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi gained ground in the country’s civil war as Western powers squabbled over creating a “no-fly zone” over the North African republic. France and Britain have pushed hard for flight restrictions, but Germany expressed reservations, and the U.S. is demanding UN Security Council support for the potential move—a sure deal-breaker, given Russian and Chinese reluctance.

A recession-proof trade

India has passed China as the world’s largest arms importer, according to a report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Figures from the think tank suggest that, for the period from 2006 to 2010, worldwide arms transfers rose 24 per cent over the previous four years. During that time, India is said to have made almost one-tenth of all global weapons purchases. The figures reflect ongoing efforts to modernize India’s military and increasing self-reliance on the part of China’s army.

Tell me on a Sunday

NFL labour negotiations ground to a halt as the players’ union decided to break off talks and voluntarily decertify for the second time in history. The previous instance, in 1989, allowed individual antitrust lawsuits against the league and led to the adoption of free agency. NFL owners responded this time by declaring a lockout, putting the 2011 season in question and leaving congressional figures scrambling for means of encouraging a settlement.

Money never sleeps

Are Canadian coins a spy’s dream? Maybe, hints a report from the U.S. Defense Security Service, a federal agency that teaches the ins and outs of spying to military personnel and contractors. A newly released summary of “technology collection trends” says that, “On at least three occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 . . . Defense contractors’ employees travelling through Canada discovered radio frequency transmitters embedded in Canadian coins placed on their persons.” The report does not say which coins were used, but the bimetallic toonie, with its removable centrepiece, seems to cry out for espionage use.

REVIEW: Brit humour meets Saturday Night Live in 'Paul'

By Claire Ward - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 11:07 AM - 2 Comments

Shot and edited by Tom Henheffer
Produced by Claire Ward

Intrigue and water filtration

By Aaron Wherry - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:42 AM - 23 Comments

The Ottawa Citizen reviews Bruce Carson’s past legal troubles and talks to Mr. Carson’s fiancée’s mother, who works for the water filtration company that Mr. Carson is alleged to have represented.

Her mother, Christine McPherson, is the director of programs and services for the water filtration firm, H20 Global Group. She defended Carson and her daughter in an interview Thursday.

“Mr. Bruce Carson has never worked with us as a lobbyist and never promised any form of access to any government official. He has simply assisted us in an advisory role to understand how we can work with the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and First Nations,” Christine McPherson said in a statement. “Mr. Carson has never lobbied for us nor has Mr. Carson ever offered to do (so) and no money has been paid or (has any been offered) to give us access to any government official,” the statement continued.

The Toronto Star details Bruce Carson’s differences with the Assembly of First Nations and the water filtration company’s dealings with one reserve.

MS back in the spotlight

By Anne Kingston - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:32 AM - 71 Comments

Alessandro Vincenzi

Paolo Zamboni is finally relaxing in a chair in his hotel room in Bologna, Italy, reflecting on the long day of rigorous research presentations, all part of this week’s inaugural annual meeting of the International Society for Neurovascular Disease (ISNVD), of which he is the president and mobilizing force. The gathering of the new interdisciplinary group of scientists—among them vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, physicists and a few neurologists—represents a fresh focus on the overlooked role of the vascular system in neurological conditions. It’s a timely endeavour, given the aging population. “I think we let in a little new light,” the thoughtful and mild-mannered Italian doctor says gently.

Much of that wattage, predictably, falls on chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI), a condition Zamboni identified that is characterized by blockages in the neck and chest veins. It was in this Italian city, in October 2009, that the former vascular surgeon first publicly presented his research linking CCSVI with multiple sclerosis patients. That, in itself, wasn’t groundbreaking: vascular theories of MS predate its classification as an autoimmune disorder. What made headlines, and inspired rare hope among MS patients, was Zamboni’s claim that angioplasty to restore blood flow resulted in symptoms abating, sometimes dramatically.

Eighteen months later, CCSVI is a hot, and incendiary, topic. The medical establishment has shown resistance and skepticism; many neurologists dismiss Zamboni’s hypothesis as spurious and unproven. But that hasn’t prevented an estimated 10,000 MS patients from seeking treatment at clinics springing up internationally to meet demand.

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Hey look: Election speculation, 2020 edition

By Paul Wells - Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:12 AM - 22 Comments

From the magazine, my latest column proposes Jason Kenney and Justin Trudeau as the future of Canadian politics.