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CHIMO

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Sun Jan 8, 2012, 04:22 PM Jan 2012

12 Canadians changing the way we think [View all]

The world needs more Canada?

Not according to Foreign Policy magazine, the must-read for the world’s wonks and wannabes.

The respected journal published by the Washington Post has listed 100 top global thinkers of 2011 from America to Yemen — and there’s not a single Canuck.

But here’s the reality check: a more modest list (appropriately Canadian) of a dozen whose thoughts influence the way the world works, or could. Just a few of those who, in different ways, shone lights into our 21st-century murk of doubt, confusion, disillusionment and ebbing aspirations during the past year.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1111655--12-canadians-changing-the-way-we-think?bn=1

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interesting read Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #1
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