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Thursday, November 30th, 2006 Posted in Economy, Society | 5 Comments »
Sometime between my second and third cup of the finest cappuccino on the East Coast, I paused to reflect on the feeling of contentment welling up in my normally recalcitrant ... Read more..Friday, November 24th, 2006 Posted in Economy | 2 Comments »
When New Brunswick’s fattest cats convened the New Brunswick Business Council last year, its members took great pains to assure the prevailing Conservative government that their intentions were entirely benign. In ... Read more..Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
As a rule, journalists are among the most reviled professionals in the world, which might explain why so many of them become PR flacks. There is something about the pain ... Read more..Sunday, November 19th, 2006 Posted in Atlantica, Economy | 1 Comment »
On a cold, wet morning in early June, more than 600 businesspeople, economic developers, academics, and politicians gathered in Saint John, New Brunswick, to ponder the shape of a North ... Read more..Sunday, November 19th, 2006 Posted in Atlantica, Economy | No Comments »
With an ice-free harbour, jet-powered tugs, deep-water jumpers, hot and cold-running longshoremen, inter-modal mega-machines, just-in-time delivery, and a reliability record only a rock star could hate, the Port of Halifax ... Read more..Friday, November 17th, 2006 Posted in Economy | 1 Comment »
If this was professional wrestling, Shawn Graham and Frank McKenna would be champions. Witness the awesome power, charisma and endurance of the fabulous “Tiny Perfect Premier” and his formidable ally ... Read more..Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 Posted in Politics | 10 Comments »
With all the delicacy of a carnival barker at a tea party, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay managed to raise eyebrows over the weekend at what had promised to be ... Read more..Friday, November 10th, 2006 Posted in Atlantica, Economy, Politics | No Comments »
David Wilkins, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, recently completed his first full year on the job. A native of South Carolina where he served for 25 years in the state legislature ... Read more..Thursday, November 9th, 2006 Posted in Politics | 2 Comments »
Steven Boyce’s resignation last week from the top job of New Brunswick’s most politically astute environmental lobby was as sudden as at least one of his reasons for doing so ... Read more..Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 Posted in Atlantica | 2 Comments »
Early last month, to the delight of those who dream of a coherent economic trade zone between Canada’s East Coast and New England, Irving Oil announced that by early next ... Read more..