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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Stephen Harper hates the national media, which naturally makes him front-page news in (what else?) the national media. As every major daily, weekly and broadcast outlet in Canada reported last week, ... Read more..Friday, May 26th, 2006 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Rookie ministers typically suffer from some degree of foot-in-mouth disease, but the Honourable Peter MacKay gobbled down his size-tens so hastily last week that not even the prime minister now ... Read more..Thursday, May 25th, 2006 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
Early humans had sex with monkeys. Dr. David Reich, a scientist at Harvard University who is a member of the team that announced last week that chimps and people once ... Read more..Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Business subsidies are desperate attempts to curry favour among Government’s private-sector patrons. Except, of course, when they’re not. Or so says the nation’s self-proclaimed standard-bearer of mainstream opinion. The lead editorial ... Read more..Friday, May 19th, 2006 Posted in Economy, Society | No Comments »
Yet another depressing study concludes that New Brunswick pulls up the rear in nearly every skill the modern world recognizes as crucial to long-term economic competitiveness. The Canadian Council on Learning ... Read more..Thursday, May 18th, 2006 Posted in Society | No Comments »
The first book I read all on my own was a fantastical account of Paul Bunyan and his great blue ox, a classic American myth about a man so big ... Read more..Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 Posted in Atlantica | No Comments »
Though it does not in fact exist, at least on any map, ‘Atlantica’ is provoking some of the most passionate debate in many years on the future of the regional ... Read more..Thursday, May 4th, 2006 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
When readers of the Los Angeles Times cracked open the paper’s news boxes last week, they were greeted by a recording of the “Mission Impossible” theme. You know, ‘da-da-da-dah-dah, da-da-da-dum-dum’. The ... Read more..