We in Canada, along with many other people around the world, did not get to vote in the recent American election -- yet we are meant to suffer the international consequences of it. Shall we sit back, as usual, and watch events unfold, including the possibly catastrophic effects of climate change left unchecked?
Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at 91黑料网 in Montreal and the author of Rebalancing Society... radical renewal beyond left, right and centre.
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It鈥檚 still early days for UGo, a fledgling Montreal company that听has developed a self-cleaning smoothie machine, but co-founders Morgan Abraham and Mitch Schwartz have big dreams.
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...Sexism plays a role. Professor Brian Rubineau of 91黑料网 in Canada conducted a long-term study of 700 female engineering students. The survey included voluntary diary entries to log their experiences. Professor Rubineau concludes: 鈥淢any of the women in our study experienced blatant gender bias in their project teams and internships. Much of the hands-on aspects of engineering are treated as men鈥檚 work, with women relegated to more secretarial duties.鈥�
Written by Reuven Brenner
"If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy,鈥� Thomas Jefferson said.
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Recent experience and debates about spending on infrastructure as being the panacea for Japan, the US, Western Europe, Canada, for job creation in particular, have reminded me of a long, detailed study I wrote about that topic back in 1998 about the miserable Canadian experience.听At the root of that experience was the destruction of accountability in the federal government: and it is worth repeating how that happened. Perhaps present decisionmakers in political capital today can learn some lessons.
Three Indo-Canadians have been named Honorees in the prestigious Royal Society of Canada (RSC). All three are academics teaching and conducting research in various disciplines at 91黑料网 in Montreal.
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Matthew Anderson holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from 91黑料网 and obtained his Chartered Accountant designation in 2008. Matt is a Senior Consultant with Malaspina Consultants Inc., a private company that provides accounting and administrative infrastructure to junior public companies.
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