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Last week… with shock… I read an article about a speech by David Suzuki in which he said, in essence, that politicians who question or stand in the way of implementing the Kyoto Protocol… “should go to jail for what they’re not doing right now … What our government is not doing is a criminal [...]

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As we embark this week on the XXI Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, anticipation of this celebration of sport, culture and international cooperation abounds in Canada and around the world.  Many of us, including myself, will be glued to our television sets and a few of us will even be lucky enough to be there [...]

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Truth be told, I don’t think that the prorogation, the presentation of major policy outside of Parliament or the firing of various independent government watchdogs has “hurt” Canada… per se.
I AM a bit surprised at the people who are coming forward to spin the media that it’s not a big deal.  These are the same people [...]

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Risk management is only as strong as its risk communications.  In my November blog entry on risk management versus firefighting I wrote about the value of food companies working with the broader risk assessment community (including government, academics, NGOs, etc.) to manage risk collaboratively.  The idea is that a food manufacturer can play a leadership [...]

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It’s getting weirder and weirder on the climategate front indeed. A few days ago I started to come across rumours that Google was ‘censoring’ the term ‘climategate’ from its “Google Suggest” function in the Google Search – that little automatic drop-down menu that appears when you type in any kind of search into the search [...]

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Stories on food safety issues have become commonplace in newspapers and television broadcasts.  Phthalates in plastic bottles, PCBs in wild salmon, salmonella in canned goods – the list goes on.  All raise understandable concerns about the food we eat, including what it was packaged in, where it came from, and how it was handled.
Food manufacturers [...]

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