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Queen’s suspends fine arts program

Budget is to blame

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Quality is declining, says professors’ group

But can we really blame inadequate funding?

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Oil’s not peaking. It’s jumping the shark

“You’ve heard of peak oil,” the Globe & Mail asks us this morning. “How about peak gold?” Peak gold, O wise Globe editors? Are you insulting our intelligence by picking such an popular,...

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Hot commodity

DAVID STOBBE/REUTERS Bill Doyle has done his part to put Saskatchewan on the map. He’s led one of the country’s most valuable companies, Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, for the past decade and doesn’t...

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Treasure island

Getty Images While the future of Saskatchewan’s potash industry is grabbing attention around the world, the real hub of Canada’s resource sector may be emerging in an unlikely place: Baffin Island. The...

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Two charts you need to see about commodities and the housing market

Our latest issue should be hitting stands today or tomorrow with a story looking at the love-in that investors, both international and domestic, have for Canada at the moment. (Online-only readers will...

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Get your environmental concerns off Joe Oliver’s lawn

The Natural Resources Minister takes on the environmental regulatory system, environmentalists, celebrity, air travel, foreigners, America and civil law. Unfortunately, there are environmental and...

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Jean Charest, prospector

Jacques Boissinot/CP Images It was a tweet yesterday from Andrew McIntosh at QMI that finally got me thinking about what Jean Charest’s government is up to in Quebec’s north. I’ll cut to the chase:...

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Hey look: Hewers of wood, drawers of power

In Ottawa a few weeks ago, I ran into an old friend who used to work for the Chrétien Liberals. He’s in the private sector now. I was fresh back from China and I said one of the big surprises was the...

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Dambisa Moyo on resource scarcity, and China’s race for deals

Photographs by Andrew Tolson Zambian-born, Oxford- and Harvard-trained economist Dambisa Moyo, 43, first rose to prominence with her bestselling 2009 polemic Dead Aid. In it she argued that development...

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This beautiful map shows what Canada’s future looked like in 1955

In 1955 The Department of Citizenship and Immigration produced this colourful map (which we recently bought on eBay) highlighting ‘100 new resources that will help make Canada’s future bright and...

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