Wednesday November 19, 2008
'Discrimination eats away at you - and increases your chance of mental illness'
It's a unique challenge: Diagnosing and treating immigrants with depression, anxiety and other diseases of the mind. Columnist Margaret Wente talks to a renowned British psychiatrist who's come to Canada to help
GM Canada beset by pension crisis
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Massive pension deficit presents a quandary for governments that would be on the hook in the event of bankruptcy
Listening to the sounds of health-care silence
Canadians are just spinning wheels, spending money, carrying on
Will embracing a dark history dishearten the sick?
There are many scars on the walls of the old Don Jail, including one created 30 years ago as the result of a pioneering photo-op, when politicians and activists wielding a sledgehammer managed to knock off ''one-foot-square of stone facing on the southeast corner,'' according to a report in this newspaper.
Auto execs plea for lifeline to stave off total collapse
The Detroit Three auto makers are warning of a ''catastrophic collapse'' of the entire U.S. economy if Washington fails to throw the industry an emergency $25-billion lifeline.The spectre of economic Armageddon was raised as the heads of ailing General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC descended on Washington yesterday in a high-stakes plea for cash from the U.S. government, which is already spending $700-billion to rescue banks and insurers.
The way it's going for Nortel, maybe it's time to turn out the lights
Analysts are starting to say so and even Nortel's accountants admit it: The company is worthless. Why does it still have any market value left?RBC Dominion Securities Inc.'s analyst cut Nortel's price target to zero last week. He called his report ''The last one,'' which kind of sums it up. That downgrade came on the heels of another bloodletting quarter: Nortel lost another $3.4-billion (U.S.) in the third quarter and is down $3.7-billion for the year so far.
Behold the magic moving average: It's not perfect, but it's close
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a nearly foolproof way to know when the stock market has bottomed? A signal that, with almost 100 per cent accuracy, could tell us when the carnage was over and a new bull market had begun?
Cup ad rates good, but long way from Super
Each football championship draws about the same number of viewers, but there's no comparison in terms of ad rates
Will Montreal's Cup unite two solitudes?
Seven years ago, the Grey Cup game returned here for the first time in eons, an occasion to once again take the CFL's temperature.Such had become the ritual nearly every time the ancient silverware was handed out come November, and always the same questions were asked: How's the old three-down game doing, anyway?; how many tickets have they sold?; are they about to axe another commissioner?; and what crises lurk just beyond the horizon?
Rasheed anything but a Natural Born Killer
The popular image of a football middle linebacker goes something like this: He's the hairy-knuckled hellion who grunts instead of speaks, who cheers when a ball carrier breaks a bone (especially if it's sticking out), who drools at the sight of an unsuspecting quarterback and who can produce more violence and coarse language than any Quentin Tarantino movie.
Woods stays coy on Obama
Does Tiger Woods's position as the world's most recognizable athlete obligate him to make his political views known? He's been reluctant to express any views he holds, especially before Barack Obama became the U.S. president-elect on Nov. 4.
Hair-in-the-fridge is back in the House
It's Wednesday, is it? Oh no.Hate Wednesday. Hands up, who does like Wednesday? Thought so.On Wednesday, a person thinks dark thoughts. Today, in fact, I am put in mind of our old friend Kierkegaard, who declared, in Either/Or, ''Let others complain that our age is evil; my complaint is that it is paltry. For it is without passion.''
Susur's N.Y. moment
On Saturday morning, the scream of buzz saws rips through the tranquil dining room of Susur Lee's New York outpost.With only 21/2 days remaining before the city's tastemakers get their first taste of Mr. Lee's cuisine at a Gourmet magazine party celebrating the chef's arrival, workmen in heavy boots are still painting walls, carting glassware and hauling furniture into Shang, the restaurant on the second floor of the trendy Thompson LES hotel. The kitchen still has no gas.
Ginkgo may be waste of money, memory
If you take a herbal supplement called ginkgo biloba in the hopes of keeping your mind sharp, you could be wasting your money.According to a study published in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the popular supplement does not prevent or delay the onset of dementia, nor is it effective against Alzheimer's disease.
