Prof. Mohammad Fadel has written a commentary on patheos.com about US President Barak Obama's June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo to the Muslim world ("President Obama Passes the Muslim Test"). Prof. Fadel writes that that Obama’s speech could genuinely represent an important break from U.S. policy towards the Islamic world in general and the Arab world in particular, adding that while one speech cannot change the world, if Obama follows through with the ideas that he announced in yesterday’s speech, there may be renewed cause for optimism.

In response to a growing need and awareness of the plight of internationally trained lawyers seeking accreditation to practice law in Ontario, the Government of Ontario has made an unprecedented $4 million investment in a new partnership with the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Windmills: Bigger waste than eHealth

By Michael Trebilcock

This article was first published in the Financial Post on September 30, 2009.

ntarians take note. A detailed new Danish study shatters most of the myths that the Danish-based wind turbine industry has been propagating in Canada and around the world as to the virtues of wind power. The study, Wind Energy: The Case of Denmark by the Centre for Policy Studies in Copenhagen, strongly reinforces reservations that I have noted in previous op-eds in this newspaper.

Why macro is prudent

Canada should heed the call for macroprudential rules

By Anita Anand

This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on September 23, 2009.