EVERY year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace.
1- Martin Luther King Jr
2- Albert Einstien
3- Marie Curie
4- Sir Alexander Fleming
5- Francis Crick, James D Watson, and Maurice Wilkins
6- Hermann Joseph Muller
7- Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
8- Sir Clive Granger
9- Jean-Paul Sartre
10- Rudyard Kipling
According to The Leader.com
… and not subservience to a third state.
THIS, is a freaking joke.
I am ashamed to call myself Canadian when I read that nonsense.
Not that Fox News is widely renowned for their objectivity, but they recently b*tch slapped their neighbors to the north by calling them stupid, effeminate, cowardly, and lazy - among other adjectives. Just watch it for yourself:
This summer work on your tan and your future.
The Aspiring Business Leaders program is hosted by former Faculty of The Richard Ivey School of Business students and some of the country’s most dynamic and influential business people. Their business camp is a great way to get a head start at University. It’s even a great way to figure out what you want to be when you grow up.
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This is from Drudge Report and Matt Drudge is hosting it on his own site, so I am not sure about the accuracy, but regardless it’s an interesting read:
A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.
Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: “The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse.”
The paper said Panarin’s dire predictions for the U.S. economy, initially made at an international conference in Australia 10 years ago at a time when the economy appeared strong, have been given more credence by this year’s events.
When asked when the U.S. economy would collapse, Panarin said: “It is already collapsing. Due to the financial crisis, three of the largest and oldest five banks on Wall Street have already ceased to exist, and two are barely surviving. Their losses are the biggest in history. Now what we will see is a change in the regulatory system on a global financial scale: America will no longer be the world’s financial regulator.”
When asked who would replace the U.S. in regulating world markets, he said: “Two countries could assume this role: China, with its vast reserves, and Russia, which could play the role of a regulator in Eurasia.”
Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: “A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse, and this means that whole cities will be left without work. Governors are already insistently demanding money from the federal center. Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles.”
He also cited the “vulnerable political setup”, “lack of unified national laws”, and “divisions among the elite, which have become clear in these crisis conditions.”
He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.
He even suggested that “we could claim Alaska - it was only granted on lease, after all.” Panarin, 60, is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and has authored several books on information warfare.
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All signs point to the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) having more power in the 21st century… and US dominance to end. But how much power will the US keep?
The National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends report, issued every four years to document looming problems, predicts a new global system will emerge where no single state dominates.
“By 2025, the U.S. will find itself as one of a number of important actors on the world stage, albeit still the most powerful one,” the report by U.S. intelligence agencies says.
China is poised to have more impact than any other country, but the report also foresees a rise by India and Russia.
If trends continue, the report predicts China will have the world’s second-largest economy by 2025, be a leading military power, while becoming the world’s largest importer of natural resources and also the biggest polluter.
What is striking, the report notes, is that none of the three rising stars adhere to a Western liberal model but rather a system of state capitalism, under which the government takes a key role in economic management.
The transition will leave a world system “almost unrecognizable” in comparison to today, the report says.
It says there will be an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from the West to East, with rising oil and commodity prices in the Gulf States and Russia and lower production costs shifting manufacturing and service industries to Asia. While terrorism is unlikely to disappear by 2025, the report says its appeal could decline if economic growth continues in the Middle East.
The report also suggests al-Qaeda may “decay sooner” than expected after alienating supporters by killing Muslims in its attacks and failing to gain traction in large parts of the Islamic world.
With more than 1.2 billion more people in the world by 2025, natural resource issues such as energy, food and water will be the increasing focus of conflicts, the report says.
The effects of climate change will be uneven, but the report mentions Canada alongside Russia as two countries who will benefit from it over the next 20 years.
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Washington Post is noticing that Canadian banks are not on the verge of panic and destruction. States the obvious if you live in Canada, but a good reader for any US or European reader - and banker!
Also, Canadian banks are simply less greedy and more conservative, too.
Plus, they learn from their mishaps and misadventures. In the late 1990s, CIBC got into a mess after backing Long Term Capital Mgmt, as a result, they got nailed and had to close a number of branches.
So when this latest gem of innovation came along (mortgage backed securities), I think many simply balked, realizing that it was pig on a lipstick.
Today, many Canadians are counting down the hours and minutes until the long weekend. The long weekend to celebrate Thanksgiving which, unlike the American Thanksgiving, is celebrated on the second Monday in October.
Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. A harvest that is early, compared to the rest of North America, due to the simple fact that we’re located in the north.
The first Canadian Thanksgiving was held in today’s Newfoundland by Martin Frobisher. Frobisher had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient did not succeed but instead established a settlement in Northern American. The first Thanksgiving in 1578 was for their safe journey.
At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed ‘The Order of Good Cheer’ and gladly shared their food with their Indian neighbors.
During the American Revolution, Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada where they brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada. There are many similarities between the two Thanksgivings such as the cornucopia and the pumpkin pie.
Thanksgiving was only declared a national holiday in 1879 by the Canadian Parliament.
Star Liberal candidate and current foreign affairs critic Bob Rae has accused Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper of plagiarism involving a 2003 speech made about the Iraq war. At a campaign stop in Toronto, Rae showed this video of a speech given by Harper in 2003 (before he was Prime Minister) calling for Canadian troops to be deployed to Iraq. The video also shows Australian PM John Howard in an address that took place a mere two days earlier.
The Tory spokesperson has blown the allegations off as irrelevant, saying it is only an election-time ploy for votes. However, this is a situation that would have any student expelled from school. Schools have plagiarism trials, and students can be found guilty and kicked out. If the Prime Minister of an entire country is guilty of this, does he really expect voters to dismiss it as “irrelevant”? Just the latest in a long line of gaffes of which the Conservative Party of Canada is guilty. Not just that, but it is proof that the government currently leading Canada (albeit with a minority government) lacks imagination, a unique voice and the political thought process to stand on its own. Elections to come in T-2 weeks…
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