| Jan 14, 2015 | Environment / HealthWhen Maria van der Hoeven summed up the 20-year outlook for global energy investment in London last year, she identified a couple of daunting challenges. The amount of money required by 2035 is a staggering $48 trillion, the International Energy Agency chief and...
| Sep 10, 2014 | Environment / HealthI’ve long known how wasteful, destructive, and dangerous the process of extracting oil from tar sands is. You have to dig up four tons of dirt and rock to get one barrel of oil. Beautiful old-growth boreal forest becomes a wasteland. And that single barrel of...
| Sep 3, 2014 | Cartoon|Economy / Business
| Jan 22, 2014 | Economy / BusinessThe 32,400 employees at Goldman Sachs averaged $383,374 each last year, the Wall Street banking giant has just disclosed. Typical employees at Goldman, of course, didn’t take home anything near that $383,374. Bank clerks nationally only average $24,100 a year....
| Jan 14, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyPerhaps you thought the political world was finally safe from the dynamic duo of Rob Ford and Trey Radel. But no. Heeeere they come, rushing back into the limelight. Ford, the explosive Toronto mayor, became a global punch line last year after a video showed hizzoner...
