February 25, 2008

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MAIL BAG

‘Bell never used Elisha Gray’s idea and so did not infringe on any intellectual property’

I WOULD LIKE to thank Sharon Dunn for sharing her information about scoliosis (“Amazing brace,” Health, Feb. 4). Our daughter, now in her 30s, was diagnosed with it as a child and referred to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. We were told the same story—nothing we can do, but surgery is not recommended at this time.

INTERVIEW

‘Even if Islam had never existed, there would still be huge areas of potential conflict between East and West'

MIDDLE EAST EXPERT AND EX-CIA SPY GRAHAM FULLER TALKS TO KATE FILLION ABOUT WHAT A WORLD WITHOUT ISLAM WOULD REALLY LOOK LIKE

NEWSMAKERS

‘WE WEREN’T GOING TO WRITE A MOVIE ABOUT A RUSSIAN POLITICIAN BASED ON A MARTIAN’ —FILM PRODUCER ANATOLY VOROPAYEV ON HIS VLADIMIR PUTIN-LIKE FICTIONAL CHARACTER

With Air Canada’s pockets bulging with a 2007 profit of $429 million, the CEO of the airline’s parent firm, Robert Milton, is mulling over offers to buy it. Milton, the man who led Air Canada through a turbulent period of insolvency, says he’s being approached by pension funds and private equity funds.