| Toronto Star: When the leaders of the G8 countries – the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Canada – meet in Toyako, Japan this week, they will face a busy agenda of urgent issues. These include high oil prices that could go even higher, a surge in world food prices and critical food shortages, the need to move quickly to a consensus on climate change, and reducing the risks of global stagflation. These issues are just a foretaste of the difficult kind of world ... |