Following up from yesterday's post which contained the names and details of companies headquartered or active in Canada who are helping with disaster relief in South Asia, here's today's tally. Notably, long-suffering Nortel Networks of Brampton makes a $700,000 (U.S.) donation (half of the money will come from Nortel employees) making it the most generous Canadian company so far for South Asia disaster relief. (Mind you, nickel-producer . . .   more »

L-Soft International which hosts a lot of e-mail lists on a variety of topics said it has established a list where the discussion is intended to be for survivors and those looking for survivors. Here's the blurb from L-Soft:
"In response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami tragedy, L-Soft has created ...   more »

My colleague Paul Waldie takes a look in today's Globe and Mail at one of the challenges for businesses that wish to donate: How to give without seeming like you're trying to make a buck on the giving yourself: "When executives at Best Buy Canada Ltd. considered how to help ...   more »

Henry Farrell, writing on the Crooked Timber blog, puts forth a position on the relationship between mainstream media and bloggers which is very close to mine, namely, that both are important and both are an important source of information. Farrell, though, has a message for those bloggers who think ...   more »

I'm still trying to track down how and where corporate Canada is pitching in to help the situation in South Asia. Lots of companies -- big and small -- are doing something.
Lots are not -- or rather, are not yet doing something.
Four of the 10 largest Canadian companies...   more »

Corporate Canada started stepping up in earnest today to help out with the South Asia disaster, mostly by donating cash but also through donations of services or goods. Others are facilitating either donation collections or relief. Could corporate Canada be doing more? Probably. But let's save that debate for another ...   more »

John and Jackie Knill of North Vancouver, B.C., Canada were last seen in in Khao Lak, Thailand. Have you seen them?
If you have any info at all about the Knills, get in touch with a Canadian government official or let Chris Cummer know. He's trying to help out ...   more »

If you're the early bird type, I'm the holiday fill-in for Seamus O'Regan this week on Canada AM. It means I was up at 3 a.m. and off to work at 4 a.m. today and for the next couple of days but, change is as good a rest, as ...   more »

John Schwartz, writing in the New York Times today, says this:

For vivid reporting from the enormous zone of tsunami disaster, it was hard to beat the blogs."

Actually, it was pretty easy. In fact, the very edition that carried Schwartz' story had a piece by Amy Waldman that ...   more »

Tim Horton's is in the midst of its second invasion of the U.S. market and, this time, experts say it's making real headway. It has 200 stores now and may have more than 500 stores open in the U.S. by the end of 2007. Meanwhile, U.S. giant Krispy Kreme's ...   more »