Here at  the 14th World Conference on Disaster Management, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building, June 20-23, 2004, it finally dawns on you  … “Disaster management” is yet another good example of an early 21st century oxymoron. Anyone who has been involved in real-world disasters will tell you they can never really be managed. Yet […]

The online edition of the Toronto Globe and Mail conducted a somewhat surprising opinion poll among its cyberspace readers on Friday, September 3, 2004, in the immediate wake of the Republican Convention in New York. The question was: Who would you most like to see win the U.S. presidential election in November? Canadians still do […]