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 An abundance of favourable media coverage has greeted Martha Hall Findlay's recent call for the abolishment of so-called "supply management" controls on the Canadian dairy industry. Whatever those are. While no one's explaining, everyone seems to have agreed -- they're bad. |  | Howard Steven Friedman: US Infant Mortality Rate Higher Than Other Wealthy Countries
We usually don't think about infant mortality in the United States. We associate it with the developing world or with the distant past. The fact that the U.S. has the highest infant mortality is not because of a lack of specialists or facilities. |  | Charlie Angus: Attiwapiskat: Where Shannen's Dream Became a Reality (VIDEO)
It's been five months since a unanimous vote by the government to build a new school in Attiwapiskat. This was Shannen's school. To them, it wasn't the government or the politicians who had made this school a reality, it was Shannen Koostachin. She was one of their own. She was their voice. After 13 long years of heartache and struggle, the community was finally getting a real grade school. |  | Reid Cramer: The New Inequality Is Wealth, Not Income
Between 2007 and 2010, those at the top had their wealth increase and almost everybody else experienced a drastic decline. We should be concerned about creating opportunities for more families to build their wealth. It's a big problem if it's happening only at the very top. |  | Lewis Lapham: Living in an American Age of Techno-Wonder and Unreason
New philosophies call all in doubt, the more so as the accelerating rates of technological advance -- celestial, terrestrial, and subliminal -- overrun the frontiers between science, magic, and religion. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.CA |
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