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(Toronto - September 8-11, 2011) Over four days, top international experts from the physical and social sciences-physicists, chemists, economists, and psychologists-together with architects, engineers, investigative journalists, academics and lawyers, met at Ryerson University in Toronto to challenge the US government's controversial explanation of what happened on 9/11 ten years ago.
As the Ontario election heads into its second week, the issues are emerging. Health care (quality, availability and wait times), job creation, taxes, hydro rates, gasoline prices, and university tuitions are all pocketbook issues that resonate province-wide.
We Americans become like the moribund Hapsburg Empire which was said to have forgotten nothing and learned nothing.
The City of Ottawa is seeing some changes. Jim Watson's mayoralty has been quite a shift in style from the days of Larry O'Brien, whom he defeated. And the comparison is not just to O'Brien.
One legacy of the decade since 9/11 has been the growing fear of Muslims and Islam.
Pretty River Academy in Collingwood, Ontario, a private school with 150 students attending kindergarten to Grade 12, is the first Ontario school to remove Wi-Fi wireless system from campus.
The commemorative ceremonies that are planned for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 massacre are those of pathos for the victims and their families, of praise for both the pursuit of the supporters of the attackers and the performance of first responders and US soldiers abroad.
It has been six months since the people of Syria went to the streets. Like those in Egypt before them, they were and still are peacefully calling for dignity, freedom, democracy and social justice. They have been denied these rights by the ruling Assad's family for over 40 years, first by the father Hafez and then since July 2000 by the son Bashar following his father's death.
The situation leading up to the UN Palestine vote is fascinatingly indeterminate.
Former Ontario Premier Ernie Eves is miffed. Some of the old Tory gang in Ontario is being ousted by brash, populist, extreme right-wingers. When Norm Sterling, a sitting MPP, was ousted in a primary by Jack MacLaren, what happened to Stirling "was not very polite, was not fair, it was not loyal, it was not compassionate, it was not even and it was not honest." Wow!
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