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Sunday, July 29th, 2007 Posted in Education, Society | 2 Comments »
It is one of the aggravating ironies of life in Canada’s only “officially” bilingual province that scores of Anglophone school kids continue to graduate from high school with only a ... Read more..Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Posted in Economy | 4 Comments »
As if Alberta’s constant drain on New Brunswick’s freshly graduated, bright young things isn’t enough humiliation for one province to bear, now we’re being told to emulate our jurisdictional nemesis in ... Read more..Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 Posted in Humour | 5 Comments »
(Aired: CBC Moncton, Information Morning, July 25, 2007) I am not what you would call a “festival” person. I don’t like crowds, especially when they’re full of middle-aged men and women ... Read more..Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Humour, Politics | 7 Comments »
Stephen Harper finally wants to share. He wants Canadians to know that he’s not cold, authoritarian, or disengaged from the lives of his fellow citizens. He’s merely clumsy, in an ... Read more..Monday, July 23rd, 2007 Posted in Economy | 5 Comments »
It may provide the York University demographer David Foot with rueful satisfaction (of the “I told you so” variety) to know that Statistics Canada confirms what he’s been howling from ... Read more..Monday, July 16th, 2007 Posted in Economy | 4 Comments »
Public functionaries are running amok, threatening to unleash a torrent of red tape on New Brunswick’s hard-working, clean-living citizens, and plotting to unravel Premier Shawn Graham’s noble prosperity plan with ... Read more..Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 Posted in Humour | 5 Comments »
I want Madonna to understand that I feel her pain. It really isn’t her fault that her charitable Ray of Light Foundation has more than $4 million (USD) invested in ... Read more..Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Politics | 4 Comments »
Don’t panic. That enormous balloon you see rising slowly above the mean streets of the provincial capital contains nothing more combustible than the combined egos of NB Power’s management team ... Read more..Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Politics | 7 Comments »
Nothing so exquisitely weds the left and right wings of North America these days than a little thing called the Security and Prosperity Partnership, or SPP. To libertarian hammer-throwers, it is ... Read more..Thursday, July 5th, 2007 Posted in Economy | 3 Comments »
The recent revelation that Stephen Harper maintains a 200-page manual that instructs Conservative chairs of parliamentary committees on the fine art of political obstructionism confirms this government’s utter contempt for ... Read more..