Professor (Emeritus) John H. Munro
Department of Economics,
University of Toronto
The Max Gluskin House: Room 348
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3G7
Phone: (1) 416-978-4552; and (1) 416-978-6713 (fax)
My e-mail address: john.munro@utoronto.ca
My Home Page: freely accessible to everybody.
Last updated: 7 December 2010
The Globe and Mail: Canada's 'national' (but Toronto-based) daily newspaper.
Globe Campus: on Canadian university affairs
The National Post: Canada
Politics Canada: claims to be 'the nation's largest political website'.
The Weekly Observer on the Net: UK
The Times on-Line: the London Times and The Sunday Times: UK
The Economist: UK
BBC News: World Edition: British Broadcasting Corporation.
CBC News: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Rasmussen Reports: Current Events and Political Polling
AAEC: The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
The San Francisco Chronicle
MacLeans Magazine (Canada)
The Economists' Voice: ed. by Joseph Stiglitz and Brad De Long: from
Berkeley Electronic Press
Anti-War: an American libertarian-conservative, anti-war and and anti-'neo-con' website
Iraq Body Count: for the
latest estimates of the Iraqi death-toll.
Al-Jazeera: an Arab viewpoint, and perhaps the best-known
Arabic news website.
DEBKA File: an Israeli (intelligence) viewpoint.
AlterNet: the Mix is the Message: anti-neo-conservative and anti-establishment
Reader Supported News : another American liberal newsblog
The Huffington Post: An American liberal newsblog
CounterPunch: a Political Newsletter:
liberal, and very anti-neo-con, and anti-establishment
Democracy Now: an independent daily news program, especially
important for its 'War & Peace Report'.
The Village Voice A New-York based anti-establishment newspaper.
The New American: another anti-neo-con,
anti-establishment on-line news journal.
TruthOut: another vocal anti-neo-con, anti-establishment, anti-war on
line news journal, well worth reading.
Truthdig: Drilling Between the Headlines: similar to TruthOut
TruthandPolitics.Org: another liberal site, similar to the preceding sites, with a focus on the US government.
The Progressive: an American online magazine,whose masthead states that it is
"a leading voice for peace and social justice since 1909".
Real Clear Politics: especially good for up to date political polling (US).
Freakonomics: The Hidden Side of Everything. A web 'blog' by Steven D. Levitt (Economics, University of Chicago)and Stephen J. Dubner, authors
of the famous book of this same name. Not a 'news' or 'current affairs' web-site, but a site of well informed and interesting comments on current economic issues (even when they do not appear
to be 'economic' in nature).