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This is a double-issue, covering March and April, so hold onto your hats. First off, a cautionary note: there are scammers who claim to be IT folk with web pages, vans and other signs of legit business, including an offer to pickup sick laptops and other equipment. But once they have your items, you won’t see them again. Don’t let anyone take your tech items for repair unless you are really sure who the people are. And in this double issue: the big earners now work behind the scenes, not in the president’s chair.
They’re unknowns. Get a hawk’s eye view from our Articles Section. Also see how the physical world around us affects our sense of right and wrong. No, this isn’t the latest elaboration of Stanley Milgram’s work, but a snapshot of the impact of certain smells and the degree of light and darkness on our ethical behaviour. We look at the dilemma posed by Greece and its financial quandary. Greece falsified its data, but many countries do, and not just those in the Club Med belt. Moreover, banks and other financial institutions have encouraged Greece along the debt-default path and now are betting against recovery by selling short on the credit-swap insurance exchange. At some point, nations will have to rein in the financiers and it won’t get easier as time passes. We can’t neglect VANOC’s wretched treatment of other competitors in contrast to Canadian teams. Could it really be true that our athletes had ten times the practice runs in luge than other countries? Perhaps I’m wrong, and this was skiing rather than luge. Still, the egos of Ignatieff and other Own The Podium media slaves make melancholy reading. This country doesn’t belong to Canadians anymore, but a hybrid of fundamentalist Republican and Hollywood guru. The ethos of win-at-any-cost or it’s-OK-because-it’s-within-the-rules is, well, shameful.
