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A fixture on the Toronto radio scene will be stepping away from the microphone on March 1. Andy Barrie is calling it a career on March 1 after 15 years as host of CBC Radio's Metro Morning here in Toronto, which has enjoyed ratings success. He wants to be able to sleep normally again. :) Barrie suffers [...]
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Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank on how the recent travails aren't the end of the business, but they are the end of business as usual. From the Jan. 30 Toronto Star: Newspapers are going through a major shakeout – just as they did when television demolished the old print news business model 50 years ago. [...]
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China has largely driven its industrial revolution on filthy coal plants, but it is moving fast to green its energy supply — much faster than the West is. But carbon energy will still dominate there over the next decade. From the Jan. 30 NYT: China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United [...]
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The Toronto Star's David Olive says recent discoveries have some experts suggesting that we have plenty of oil to get us through the next century. But while Olive says it would be a mistake to cut back on the green agenda, he only mentions the nettlesome issue of dangerous climate change, which is largely driven [...]
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