How are we supposed to have top-notch world class schools when our government keeps cutting our funding? Who would even want to be a teacher in Canada when they could move to the United States and get paid more? Stephen Harper of the ultra right-wing Conservative party has an answer. Build or convert existing schools into Private Schools.
Doctor and nurse shortages in Canada are signs of the times, or rather signs that our babyboomers are getting old. With babyboomer doctors and nurses retiring, but with the majority of babyboomers going to the hospital more frequently, there is suddenly a shortage of doctors and nurses during the time when we need them most. Long waits for surgery or to see a specialist are now common place. But what are the solutions?
Photos of Stephen Harper (Canada's Prime Minister) shaking hands with terrorist warlord Mullah Naqib in Afghanistan during a state visit. The warlord and his men were behind a suicide blast that injured three Canadian soldiers and killed Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry, the 59-year-old political director of the local reconstruction team.
David Suzuki believes Canada could have been a world leader in adopting Kyoto Protocol emission targets if former federal environment minister Lucien Bouchard had chosen the environment over Quebec sovereignty.
Can Canada's industrial base survive Asian Competition? Manufacturing accounts for more than one-sixth of Canada's output and is a source of well-paying jobs. The industry has survived a number of transformational events but now China and other emerging Asian economies present new competition just as the Canadian dollar is soaring.
World renowned environmentalist David Suzuki plans to launch a cross-Canada tour to urge Canadians to make the environment the central issue in the next election campaign.
Looking back at Canada in 2006. Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan drinking Tim Hortons and getting killed (36 in 2006). Stephen Harper shook hands with a terrorist warlord by accident in March 2006. The Canadian Dollar climbs almost to par and more.
A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, leaving a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 kilometres away picked up tremors from it. Over the next few years this ice island will drift into populated shipping routes. George W Bush puts polar bears on endangered species list.
