The Globe and Mail gave big play today to a story on Fort McMurray and how oilsands expansion has been put on hold.

I offer some background (I lived there in 1987-1988).

NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman argues the only way to send the price signals needed to begin retooling the U.S. economy into a lower-carbon model is through the tax system. He would like to see Barack Obama boost the U.S. federal gasoline tax.

From Star public editor Kathy English's column of Dec. 27:

... Errors are no joke at the Star. We've taken serious steps this year to gain greater understanding of how and why such errors occur, with the launch in April of an online database to track corrections and determine reasons for errors. The Star published 425 corrections in 2008, down somewhat from 497 in 2007. In 2006, we published 512 corrections.