A Conversation with David Findley

A Conversation with David Anderson.

FRONTIER CENTRE: In August the National Post published a provocative article in which you argue that Canada's rate of economic growth could out pace the impressive American rate and that Canada's standard of living could surpass that of our American cousins within twenty years should we adopt certain changes in public policy. Wouldn't such an about face, in fact, restore the Canadian advantage?...

A conversation with David Nathan.

A Conversation with David Bates, MD, MSc, Chairman of the American Medical Informatics Association.

A world-renowned physician-researcher, David Bates, MD, MSc, is Chief of the Division of General Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, and a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, where he is codirector of the Program in Clinical Effectiveness. He is the Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis, Information Systems at Partners...

Art, body, and soul: A conversation with dancers David Leventhal and John Heginbotham.

Dance has been an important part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations, and entertainment since prehistoric times. ‘‘One of the earliest structured uses of dance may have been in the performance and in the telling of myths. It was also sometimes used to show feelings for one of the opposite gender. It is also linked to the origin of ‘‘lovemaking.’’ Before the production of written languages, dance...

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...