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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
There is an inexplicable tendency among some American Democrats to look their gift horses squarely in their near perfect mouths and start performing dental surgery. The “leftish” backlash against Barack Obama ... Read more..Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Not since comedienne Roseanne Barr declared herself America’s “domestic goddess” has a woman captured the imagination of so many of her fellow citizens, so completely, as vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Many ... Read more..Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Politics | 3 Comments »
The worst thing you can say about Frank McKenna is that the former New Brunswick premier and Canadian ambassador to the United States, and current vive-chairman of the TD Bank, ... Read more..Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
For those who believe that governments have no business meddling in the affairs of the private sector, the spectacle of the western world’s political leaders calling last week for the ... Read more..Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Posted in Politics, Society | 1 Comment »
In the cool, brilliant blue of an autumn morning in Halifax, I watched 200 young scholars mount the podium, one by one, to receive their diplomas, their degrees, their tickets ... Read more..Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
And the winner was. . .exactly no one. Not Stephen Harper who managed to strengthen his minority by a paltry eight seats. Not Jack Layton who failed to orchestrate his party’s ... Read more..Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Poor, poor Stephane Dion. It’s down to the wire, and still he remains an object of ridicule on Canada’s increasingly perilous political stage. During a television interview, last week, local CTV-affiliate ... Read more..Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Politics | 2 Comments »
Watching Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Stephane Dion breeze through New Brunswick last weekend, promising everything from permanent government employment to a clean, well-lighted environment, a young friend ... Read more..Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
No sooner had Stephen Harper dispensed with his sweater vest, and his idle musings on the meaning of fatherhood, when he returned to more familiar form in an interview with ... Read more..Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
The attack ads. The flip-flopping on crucial issues. The bonehead plays for ever smaller slices of the demographic pie. The lies, lies, and more lies. In just six, mercifully short ... Read more..