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Friday, February 25th, 2005 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
In the immortal words of the Mick Jagger, “you can’t always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need.” And that just about sums up the package ... Read more..Thursday, February 24th, 2005 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
As Canadian political scandals go, “adscam” – in which millions of dollars of public funds are alleged to have been paid to advertising firms in return for bupkis – is ... Read more..Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
Other than a few hundred policy wonks, journalists and Ottawa mandarins, Canadians won’t be glued to their TV screens tomorrow to learn how their hard-earned, and duly remitted, tax dollars ... Read more..Friday, February 18th, 2005 Posted in Economy | 1 Comment »
Thousands of Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurs have, in recent years, relied on a formerly obscure and inaccessible financial instrument to shore-up their often precarious careers. It’s called microcredit, and its popularity ... Read more..Thursday, February 17th, 2005 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
Like all promising energy technologies, wind power has no real future under political regimes that cleave to the costly, messy, unsustainable, business-as-usual approach to public stewardship. Earlier this month, the ... Read more..Tuesday, February 15th, 2005 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s complaints about Ottawa’s recently inked offshore energy agreements with Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador are both breathtakingly arrogant and numbingly predictable. On news last week that ... Read more..Friday, February 11th, 2005 Posted in Economy | 1 Comment »
In this Chinese Year of the Rooster, it appears New Brunswick’s economic development community has something to crow about. According to a news report last week, business investors from across China ... Read more..Thursday, February 10th, 2005 Posted in Society | No Comments »
For a nation universally admired by luckless victims of state-sanctioned depredations and depravities the world over, our country holds a staggeringly low opinion of itself. Or so it seems, according ... Read more..Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 Posted in Humour, Society | No Comments »
It was midnight in Manhattan on May 30, 2002, and I had just hauled my bones onto an elevator in midtown’s Grand Hyatt Hotel, having spent 12 hours trying to ... Read more..Friday, February 4th, 2005 Posted in Atlantica | No Comments »
Atlantic Canada’s close economic ties to the U.S. northeast are a matter of record and history. Now, a debate is bubbling in board rooms and think tanks on both side ... Read more..