As promised, we are marking the official launch of summer in this northern land of lakes and forests – and too much unfortunate flooding in two prairie provinces – with an update on the 2008 naughty pictures of born-in-Canada Chinese entertainer Edison Chen: and a parallel report on the alleged naughty videos of the Edison […]

[UPDATED JANUARY 31, 2011, JULY 24, 2012]. “Globalization” is nothing new, in some ways. It used to be called “imperialism.” Its current incarnation began with the “Portuguese Pioneers” – when Bartolomeo Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, and Vasco da Gama made landfall on the coast of India 10 years later. In […]