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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
David Campbell is one of the region's wisest economic observers of all things Atlantic Canadian. His commentary is almost always trenchant, relevant and accurate. Recently, he had this to say ... Read more..Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Humour, Politics | 5 Comments »
A recent photo of Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Patricia Cantellano is popping up in some of ... Read more..Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 Posted in Economy, Humour, Politics | 5 Comments »
Comedian Mary Walsh may have mirrored the sentiments of a sizeable minority of her fellow Canadians when, at last week’s East Coast Music Awards in Halifax, she referred to the ... Read more..Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 Posted in Atlantica | 12 Comments »
For an organization that purports to unravel the popular misconceptions that routinely choke the nation, the Ottawa-based Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) seems marvelously adept at spinning its own ... Read more..Thursday, February 15th, 2007 Posted in Humour, Society | 5 Comments »
I’ve been feeling a tad peaked these past few days. Actually, I’ve been a drooling, feverish, whining bundle of self-pity whose only true friends have been Messrs. Dimetapp, NeoCitran and ... Read more..Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Society | 2 Comments »
Our major cities are plagued with crumbling infrastructure, sub-standard housing, wretched poverty, horrendous congestion and a ubiquitous ennui that forces even the toughest urbanite to retreat to the bucolic splendours ... Read more..Thursday, February 8th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Politics | 2 Comments »
New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham’s first, formal declaration of his priorities is chock full of tasty garnishes and appetizers. Still, to quote a phrase, where’s the beef? As throne speeches ... Read more..Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Society | 3 Comments »
It seems that “Fast Frankie” McGuire may have gotten it right, after all. According to a StatsCan report released yesterday, “The best way of solving commuting-related problems may not be ... Read more..Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Posted in Society | 2 Comments »
In Jesse Robichaud’s excellent Moncton Times & Transcript coverage of David Suzuki’s February 3, 2007 appearance at the city’s downtown Capitol Theatre, I was struck by the phrase “carbon neutral”. What ... Read more..Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Politics | 2 Comments »
The word, “self-sufficiency”, is gaining almost totemic significance in the muck and moil of New Brunswick politics. The governing Liberals routinely drop it like a spell to enchant voters with ... Read more..