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Wednesday 26 September 2007 Technology gives world rare view of Myanmar's rage
Satellite uplinks, camera phones ensuring pictures of protests on TV screens around the world in hours
We are sure that few of you realize that this week is National Biotechnology Week
which we would have expected to produce great chest-thumping from our
city, given that Montréal is [not only] a highly regarded biotechnology
R&D centre, but home to the Biotechnology Research Institute (BRI) of the National Research Council (NRC) . Absent the expected municipal chest-thumping vaunting the region’s ranking
among the major biopharmaceutical cities in North America and home to
the highest concentration of biotechnology companies in Canada, in a
spirit of civic mindedness (is that really a word?), we propose, with
your help, to devote some part of this Wednesday evening to the topic.
Furthermore, as many of you do know, Wednesday Night has its very OWN
member of the NRC in the person of Margaret Lefebvre who has promised
to remove her CAIF hat (see below) and replace it with the large
flowery NRC one.
While on the topic of Biotech, we call to your attention the promising news from Singapore of the development of a portable device that can detect the H5N1 bird flu virus faster and cheaper than any other method.
Our last week’s allusion to how quickly hot news items turn cold is borne out once again, although we spy some recurring themes.
Although the highly successful meeting of the Parties to the Montreal
Protocol has ended with enthusiastic endorsement by none other than
Minister of Environment John Baird, climate change remains on our
agenda as the UN Secretary-General convened the heads of state of some
150 nations to a special meeting in New York
George Bush wasn’t there; he’s hosting his own [smaller] party in Washington on Thursday and Friday (UN hosts global warming shindig, but Bush chooses just to eat and shun ) and Stephen Harper has announced at the UN that Canada prefers APEC to Kyoto.
Meanwhile the ICAO Assembly continues to debate questions surrounding aviation’s carbon emissions. Reports are that the sessions are providing a bumpy ride , and that (once again/as usual) the U.S. finds itself on the opposite side from the EU . The good news is that Tom Windmuller,
like climate change, is still with us. We are delighted and look
forward to his update on this, or any other topic that appeals to him.
At the top of today’s business news is the announcement that Abu Dhabi National Energy Co., the state-controlled power generator and oil producer, agreed to buy Canada’s PrimeWest Energy Trust
for about $4 billion in the biggest-ever North American takeover by a
United Arab Emirates company. We cannot help but connect the dotted
lines to the decision of the Conservative government to go ahead with
Bill C-52 without the amendments requested by the Canadian Association of Income Funds (CAIF).
The ramifications of this story will certainly figure in Wednesday’s debate whereupon Margaret will change hats.
Other topics worthy of consideration:
Monday 24 September 2007 
Monks and the military Sep 24th 2007
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The 3-M story of the military versus monks in Myanmar
is a surprising development, altough we confess to being somewhat
confused as to why the protest by the monks started over rising fuel
prices - we thought they walked everywhere. Whatever, it is wonderful
to witness the peaceful protestors confounding the thugs who have reduced the country to such misery and we say “Buddha Bless Them”
The visit by (radical, Holocaust-denying) Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the U.S. and his appearance today at Columbia University
The immediate and harsh effect of parity on Canadian retail sales [see also]
and the manufacturing sector.
Finally, as we await the closing of the by-election polls in
Charlevoix, we have been riveted by the William Marsden story in the
Gazette about Mme Marois’ beautiful chateau on Ile Bizard; it seems that a law suit is in the offing.
Diana Thébaud Nicholson Editor
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