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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
Ottawa-based CBC-TV reporter Krista Erickson commits the cardinal journalistic sin of colluding with the enemy (i.e., the political wolfhounds whose feeding habits she’s supposed to be covering from a safe ... Read more..Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »
Is it the news or the weather that’s most depressing in these dead-of-winter days? I can’t tell anymore. And neither, it seems, can many residents of the “northern tropics” who apparently ... Read more..Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Humour | No Comments »
What a difference a catchphrase makes. Was it only a few weeks ago when Barack and Hillary were charging each other with copyright infringement over the word, “change”? As in, ... Read more..Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics | 2 Comments »
Whenever political leaders “take a meeting” to exchange pleasantries under the guise of getting things done, widespread public scepticism is about the only result they manage to guarantee. Not this time. Atlantic ... Read more..Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted in Humour, Politics | 1 Comment »
Serving the ministers The Can-Am Media Centre for Logistics and Training reported last week that it had obtained an audio transcript of the January 12-13 First Ministers meeting in Ottawa. ... Read more..Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Once in a strange moon comes a politician whose charisma, finesse, intelligence and oratory almost makes you believe that running for office and doing the people’s business are not mutually ... Read more..Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in Economy | 5 Comments »
In the big, wide world of business, was there ever a more shop-worn contention that, for the good of the body politic, governments must play an inconsequential role in economic ... Read more..Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
Surely it has not escaped the attention of the nation’s premiers that almost no one takes their skid-row, brother-spare-a-dime routine seriously. Not the people who elected them, the press who ... Read more..Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
Speak bravely about innovation, “the cutting edge” and the fire that burns in the belly of every lonely, cash-strapped entrepreneur in the Atlantic Provinces. Speak nobly about the virtue of ... Read more..Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics | 1 Comment »
On an improbably fine, early spring morning in 2006, two men sat at table in Moncton, elbow to elbow, taking the measure of the enormously complex topic they’d agreed to ... Read more..