By Karin Kloosterman
Karin, a Canadian-Israeli, meets Prince Hassan of Jordan at a water security conference in Switzerland last week.
It was a meeting of minds, water minds. Water consultants, ambassadors who’ve built water treaties, and government specialists and negotiators from around the Middle East and Europe gathered in Montreux, Switzerland for a two-day workshop on Water [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Isn’t Israel that bastion of, well, un-safeness? Isn’t it one horribly ferociously unsafe place for men, women and children?
Ha ha! Fooled ya again. It just ain’t so. All those front page stories about war and terrorism and strife? Well, they’re just front page stories. And getting on the bus is just another page [...]

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by Staff
Weary travellers departing from  Ben Gurion Airport - Israel’s busiest airport and known as one of the most secure airports in the world - can now keep their shoes on when going through security. The airport has installed step-on scanners that X-ray shoes for hidden weapons.
According to a story in the Washington Post, the [...]

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by Paul Shindman
I was in Toronto earlier this month visiting family.  Ahhh T.O.  My kids loved the Ontario Science Centre so much they had to kick us out after closing. Even though the “coffee” machine and Hall of Communications are gone (I’m still heartbroken over that and can’t believe it), the Science Centre really is [...]

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