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Toxic Toys: Is this just China bashing?
August 18, 2007
Trade protection rhetoric in U.S. worth a listen
August 3, 2007
Balancing act: How not to fix municipal finances
July 20, 2007
Opium economics
July 5, 2007
World Trade Talks
June 21, 2007
The good news about a soaring loonie
June 6, 2007
Are Canada's business leaders wimps?
May 24, 2007
Should we worry about foreign takeovers?
May 9, 2007
The sale of BCE: Questions we should be asking
April 25, 2007
Imagining a future without a domestic auto industry
April 11, 2007
Statscan fires a shot across Premier McGuinty's bows
March 1, 2007
Making resource-rich countries account for their revenues
Feb. 14, 2007
No free lunch: Ignoring the link between taxes and services
Feb. 5, 2007
Why exactly are we picking a fight with King Corn?
January 27, 2007
Fear sells: Scaring the money right out of our pockets
January 17, 2007
Trouble down on the farm
January 4, 2007
New! Improved! Drugs!
December 21, 2006
Flaherty and the provincial finance ministers: Who has who over a barrel?
December 7, 2006
A new era of uncertainty in Canada-U.S. relations
November 23, 2006
The sorry saga of income trusts
November 9, 2006
Being economical with the truth
October 12, 2006
If the U.S. sneezes...
September 27, 2006
Beware of politicians who equate rising GDP with happiness
October 26, 2006
What happens next with Alberta? An alternate scenario
September 14, 2006
Why softwood makes headlines in Canada
August 31, 2006
HIV/AIDS crisis: A Zambian woman's fight
August 14, 2006
What dual citizens bring to the table
Aug. 3, 2006
Hint to Harper: don't use the p-word
July 20, 2006
Why Canada needs global trade talks to succeed
July 6, 2006
Canada Post: Neither Fish nor Fowl
June 22, 2006
Signs of change in free trade fight
June 8, 2006
Whatever happened to Chicken Little?
May 25, 2006
How to stop Canada's globe-warming ways
May 11, 2006
Why work permits won't work
April 27, 2006

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ABOUT THIS AUTHOR

Biography

Madelaine Drohan

Madelaine Drohan is an award-winning author and journalist who has covered business, economics and politics in Canada, Europe and Africa. She is currently the Ottawa correspondent for The Economist. She spent eight years in London as the European correspondent for the Globe and Mail, a beat that gradually extended as far north as Siberia and as far south as southern Africa. Before that, she covered Parliament Hill for eight years for the Canadian Press, Maclean's magazine, the Financial Post and the Globe and Mail. She was awarded a Reuters Fellowship at Oxford University in 1998, the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism in 2001 and was a 2004-2005 Media Fellow at the Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership.

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Health »

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December 24, 2007 | 5:17 PM EST
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Broadway, Hollywood choreographer Michael Kidd dies
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Technology & Science »

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Yellowknife looks to old mine for geothermal energy
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Toyota announces plan to sell 9.85 million vehicles in 2008
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