“Switzerland and Singapore top the list of most competitive countries in the world in a global ranking that puts Canada in a distant 14th position. Finland, Germany and the United States round out the top five of this year’s most competitive nations on the World Economic Forum’s annual list, released Wednesday in Geneva. Canada’s ranking […]
Month: September 2013
“Bruce has its own wind farm. Hawthorne gets paid $116 a MW for power from Huron Wind. For Bruce B, that figure is $52; Bruce A $68 ‘after having spent $7 billion on it,’ he says. ‘The capacity factor of the wind farm is 24%; the nuclear plant is 90%.’ And there are no emissions […]
“Dorn (Walter Dorn, chair of security and international affairs at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto) recalled the words of Canada’s ambassador to the League of Nations, the precursor to the UN, who boasted in 1924 that this country was ‘a fireproof house far from the sources of conflagration.’ ‘The problem with the League of […]
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