Editorial: Gratitude and New Beginnings

Editorial: of zombies, endings and beginnings...

In the Globe and Mail, 6 September 2008, Doug Saunders’s column was entitled, ‘‘Europe Comes Home to the Shock of a Demographic Bombshell.’’ He opines on the latest Eurostat report, Population and Social Conditions, which predicts that by 2015 the European population will begin to shrink as deaths outnumber births, even taking into account immigration and in the absence of any other changes. Ne...

New Beginnings.

Transitions in life are both inevitable and critical. Over the past 6 months, CQO has commenced an important shift as its founding editorial team has finished its remarkable term and a new group of editors takes over the journal for the next 5 years. As the incoming Editor-in-Chief for CQO’s new group of editors, I am excited and humbled by the opportunities that now lie before us. This is my f...

New beginnings.

of a wife who has spent a lot of time in Young Women, I have attended many “New Beginnings.” I have always liked the name but sometimes half jokingly say to Susan, “Why do Young Women call it ‘New Beginnings’? Why not just ‘Beginnings’? What is the diff erence between a ‘beginning’ and a ‘new beginning’?” Isn’t ‘new’ redundant?” Lately, however, I have felt new appreciation for the “new” in “Ne...

New beginnings.

African Development: Dead Ends and New Beginnings