Thursday, May 19, 2011

the curious case of the missing recovery

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Join Jim Stanford in this excellent search for Canada's economic recovery. My thanks to Brian Robinson for showing me this.

"Every 30 minutes": crushed by debt and neoliberal reforms, Indian farmers commit suicide at staggering rate

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A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The crisis has...
Saturday, May 7, 2011

The death of Osama bin Laden

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An excellent personal reflection by Richard Jackson on the meaning of the death of Osama bin Laden, published in The Hindu , India's bes...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

Painful staffing cuts ahead

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It has been drawn to my attention that there is a malicious rumour circulating that I am advising upper-year students at Trent University to...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Dorothy Millar Osborne-Stewart, 22 April 1934 - 16 April 2011

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I am sad to announce that my mother, Dorothy Miller Osborne-Stewart, passed away on 16 April 2011 at the Peter Lougheed Center in Calgary fo...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

current activities, winter 2011

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With snow falling in southern Ontario, winter has arrived. My teaching of IDST - ANTH 2210Y, Agrarian change, peasants and food production ...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

international aid worker meets African villager

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An excellent, sartorial view on aid workers in Africa. Thanks to Deborah for passing this on.
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