Reading Time: 4 minutes From Florence to Canada, compassion for the victims of the wildfires knows no borders
Tag: Italy
Political left has gone ballistic at the prospect of Meloni leading Italy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The liberal media tars her as a fascist but her views are actually centre-right and inherently sensible
Political orthodoxies are being challenged in Europe
Reading Time: 4 minutes From the UK to Sweden to Italy, progressive parties are losing ground
Mussolini more a man of the left than of the right
Reading Time: 3 minutes His fascist program had more in common with an authoritarian socialist – rather than a right-wing – agenda
Comic superheroes are the modern era’s version of Greek gods
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this new religion, heroes speak the truth and model the behaviours, values and norms of an increasingly diverse society
Food inspectors getting tough on olive oil fraud
Reading Time: 3 minutes Food fraud affects many food categories, but stakes are a little higher with olive oil due to potential allergens in substitute ingredients
Political turmoil in Italy spreads to global financial markets
Reading Time: 3 minutes As Europeans begin to head south for the summer, the market seems to be following them
Kate Harris’ Lands of Lost Borders a masterpiece
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Lands of Lost Borders, Kate Harris ruminates on 10 months aboard a bicycle along the Silk Road once conquered by Marco Polo
Learning economic lessons from an Old World master
Reading Time: 3 minutes An IMF report uses Italy to highlight the dangers of a bloated, unproductive public sector, but it is just pertinent to Canada
Another European financial crisis brewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes The next crisis will be triggered by the mounting bad debts of commercial banks