By: Institute for Human Rights & Business Companies operating in weak governance zones or dysfunctional states face multiple human rights risks, and their actions may pose risks to others. Building on the UN endorsed Protect, Respect, Remedy framework on business and human rights, this new report explores the specific human rights dilemmas and challenges facing [...]
From Red to Green Flags – The corporate responsibility to respect human rights in high-risk countries
Monday, May 9th, 2011Alberta energy woos China
Sunday, May 8th, 2011Encana Corp., Nexen Inc., Devon Energy Corp., Cenovus Energy Inc., Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. are among the major companies reaching out to Asia for arrangements – from joint ventures, to outright sales. Claudia Cattaneo May 6, 2011 – 6:38 PM ET Remember when Chinese energy giants were knocking on Alberta’s doors, looking for any million [...]
Schools aim to engineer gender parity
Saturday, May 7th, 2011By: Derek Sankey Efforts to get more female students into science and engineering fields, where they make up on average just 17.5 per cent nationally, are gradually working to boost those numbers through a variety of mentoring and awareness programs. At the University of Calgary’s Schulich School of Engineering, women comprise 25 per cent of [...]
Canada’s laws on effective government are strong, but implementation is lacking.
Friday, May 6th, 2011By: Duff Conacher This week, Global Integrity released its 2010 Global Integrity Report, which dropped Canada from 11th to 19th out of almost 100 countries that it has evaluated since 2007. Using more than 300 indicators, the report is the world’s most comprehensive, detailed assessment of national government accountability, integrity, and democratic process, and measures the strength [...]
Yedlin: Reliance on oil, gas ‘not sustainable’
Friday, May 6th, 2011By: Deborah Yedlin It is perhaps more than fitting the report by the Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy was released on Thursday morning. The report was unveiled in Edmonton by Premier Ed Stelmach and the chair of the council, David Emerson. Most will recall the council was established in 2009 by Stelmach to look at [...]
Shaping Alberta’s Future
Friday, May 6th, 2011What must Albertans begin to do now to sustain prosperity through the next three decades and beyond? How can we ensure our children and grandchildren enjoy even greater opportunity than we have – that we hand future generations a legacy of “a better Alberta”? What will it take to make the Alberta of 2040 the place for [...]
Shaping Alberta’s Future
Friday, May 6th, 2011What must Albertans begin to do now to sustain prosperity through the next three decades and beyond? How can we ensure our children and grandchildren enjoy even greater opportunity than we have – that we hand future generations a legacy of “a better Alberta”? What will it take to make the Alberta of 2040 the place for [...]
The most surprising demographic crisis
Thursday, May 5th, 2011By: The Economist DOES China have enough people? The question might seem absurd. The country has long been famous both for having the world’s largest population and for having taken draconian measures to restrain its growth. Though many people, Chinese and outsiders alike, have looked aghast at the brutal and coercive excesses of the one-child [...]
Obama administration floats draft plan to tax cars by the mile
Thursday, May 5th, 2011By: Pete Kasperowicz The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive. The plan is a part of the administration’s Transportation Opportunities Act, anundated draft of which was obtained this week by Transportation Weekly. The [...]
Survey Says: They like us, they really do!
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011The plan to ramp up Canadian crude oil exports to the United States received support recently, when some senior Oklahoma political leaders came out in favour of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project. Governor May Fallin and U.S. Senators James Inhofe and Tom Coburn penned a joint letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, [...]