One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 2 December 2003

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Rogers Cadenhead interview about Radio UserLand

Rogers Cadenhead was interviewed by the Network Professional Association about Radio UserLand and his new book Radio UserLand Kick Start. [UserLand Product News]

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On the brink of launching an ambitious and only mildly necessary refurbishment, the gallery has decided to hide the work of the Group of Seven from public view

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BBC NEWS | Business | Mexican growth 'too slow'
The OECD says that the "wide-ranging structural reforms of the last fifteen years, including the entry into Nafta, have not yet led to an unambiguous rise in labour productivity growth."

It argues that Mexico needs to pursue more reforms, including the opening up of the electricity and telecoms sector to competition, tougher action to ensure water supplies and fight pollution, and improvements to basic education.

But President Fox faces an uphill task in persuading the Congress, which is dominated by his political opponents, to go along with reforms.

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Canada's View on Social Issues Is Opening Rifts With the U.S.

From gay marriage to drug use to church attendance, a chasm has opened on issues at the heart of fundamental values. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] "The nations remain like-minded in pockets, but the center of gravity in each has changed. French-speaking Quebec, with nearly a quarter of the population and its open social attitudes, pulls Canada to the left, just as the South and Bible Belt increasingly pull the United States in the opposite direction, particularly on issues like abortion, gay marriage and capital punishment."

A fine article outlining some of the key differences between the US and Canada. There were many paragraphs I would have like to have quoted but this one drove home the importance of the cliché 'My Canada includes Québec!'

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The funerals of seven Spanish intelligence agents killed in Iraq are held, as PM Aznar again vows not to pull out. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Economic dispatch: The US economy may look buoyant but sky-high balance of payments deficits point to a coming crisis, writes William Keegan. [Guardian Unlimited] '[I]f any US or International Monetary Fund economist were to look at the trend of the US balance of payments (all flows of money in and out of the US) as a case study, not knowing it was the US, he or she would be advising very severe measures, which would not fit in too well with the presidential election timetable.'

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Donald Norman: From June 2002; The Perils of Home Theater [Tomalak's Realm] 'Anyone who thinks that the computer industry has made things difficult for customers, wait till you look at home theater. There is a major opportunity here to enlarge the market considerably by setting, agreeing upon, and implementing industry-wide standards for interconnection, aimed at making the result easier to install and use, far more comprehensible, and therefore more attractive to the average family.'

Doesn't look good folks!