A news release on Tuesday from the provincial government agency that collects and analyses health statistics showed the number of live births in the province in 2008 at 4905, the highest number “in any year since 1999�. That’s true but more than a few people wondered why the Newfoundland and L...

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This week I helped out Peter John Meiklem on a story for the Sunday Herald about the future of journalism. Amid all the job losses in the Scottish media, the piece looks at whether bloggers can step up to the plate and begin to supplant traditional media outlets. My view has long been that blogging ...

Kim Walker’s company has conducted, what must be the largest online poll of the 50-plus in the six key countries of Asia Pacific. The research was done between late December and the first week in Jan 2009. We are talking big numbers – a poll of over 170,000 people. The above chart shows how the ...

Here follows a bit of demographic speculation. It’s guesswork right now, but we’ll know in a year or two if I’m right. Interesting Fact #1: birthrates tend to drop during recessions, and the drop tends to correlate with both the severity of the recession and the speed of its onset....

The UK Guardian reports: There are currently nearly 500,000 settlers living in east Jerusalem and the West Bank. All settlements are illegal under international law... One fact. One opinion. Finally, someone gets his data correct. Some 300,000 in Judea and Samaria and 200,000 in the neighbors of eas...

Some organizations believe they hold the key to fighting poverty--economic development in the inner cities, which will in turn bring in private investment. But others maintain that both are hard to come by simultaneously. read more...

at Doublethink: In recent years, American conservatism has morphed from a smoke-filled room of martini-swilling adults into nothing short of a nursery. The Right, once known for its emphasis on individual accomplishment and personal responsibility, once a haven for those keen on adults making their ...

"Seems so long I felt this way and time sure passin slow My time coming, anyday, don't worry about me, no " - John Perry Barlow Mark Morford is a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. In his latest piece, he imagines a glorious "green in every way" future for the Golden State.Pot is, by a huge ...

It used to be somewhat hard to find good data for building and optimizing campaigns. Now days, there are so many tools out there it’s almost overwhelming. Some of the best tools are from search engines themselves. I’ve talked about Adcenter Adlabs before, and their tools keep getting better and ...