Daily Policy Digest
International Issues
| THE PERILS OF COOL
Canadians are poorer than their next-door neighbors, and the gap is widening, say observers... |
| THE UNITED NATION'S PLAN FOR GLOBAL SOCIALIST RULE Under a United Nations global pollution trading scheme, money from developed nations would be redistributed to developing nations, says Henry Lamb... |
| THE EUROPEAN DISEASE The rate of employment for people age 50 and older is glaringly low in Europe, say observers... |
| MODERN SLAVERY Today, at least 12.3 million people are subjected to some form of forced labor, and the people who exploit them are making at least $44 billion in profits, says Rodger Doyle... |
| VIVA LA FAT! The rate of obesity in France has started to swell, rising from 8 percent of the adult population in 1977 to 11 percent by 2003, say observers... |
| TAX RELIEF CAN INCREASE CANADIAN PRODUCTIVITY Canada ranks 18th among 24 industrialized countries for average labor productivity growth over the past 10 years, according to researchers... |
| A MORE PEACEFUL WORLD, PERHAPS Major societal wars are down from 12 at the end of 2002 to eight in early 2005, say observers... |
| THE WORLD BANK GETS INTROSPECTIVE Programs designed to reach poor people often end up instead helping the better-off, say researchers... |
| BIG BUSINESS IS WATCHING Western technology firms like Microsoft and Yahoo are leaping at the chance to help China crack down on free expression, say observers... |
| CANADIAN WHITEWASH Canada has a gang problem, not a gun problem, says John Thompson... |
