Globe

New Globe editor John Stackhouse is clearly less worried than his predecessor was about being labelled a wonk. No sooner was Stackhouse in the saddle than he began commissioning a series of articles about Canada’s productivity challenge. Which is a horse tranquilizer of a topic, I know, because I sometimes write about it too. But the articles are surely worth doing, even if they can be a bit of a slog. Konrad Yakabuski kicked off the productivity agenda with a long article on July 4, and Shawn McCarthy followed up this weekend with an even longer one about the Nortel unpleasantness and What It All Means. And a deck over the article in the print edition even promises this will be an “occasional series.”