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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
There was always something a tad vaporous about Irving Oil’s ambition to erect a second refinery in Saint John. So many intangibles – the price of oil, market demand, available ... Read more..Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Business, Economy | No Comments »
As Nortel, that great icon of Canadian technical wizardry, prepares to meet a humbling fate at the hands of a foreign consortium and a disinterested federal government, the gnashing of ... Read more..Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
The defining characteristic of the human species, the talent that renders it unique among all others, is its capacity to think ahead. (Well, that and night baseball). It’s what weaves ... Read more..Friday, July 24th, 2009 Posted in Economy, Society | No Comments »
A key tenet of the federal Conservatives’ political philosophy – and the source of the party’s popularity in some quarters – is that criminals are hard at work in their ... Read more..Monday, July 20th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »
How mournful are the times when nothing more penetrating than the girth of Britney Spears’ hips, the cut of Madonna’s brassier, the authenticity of a gansta rapper’s pulchritude consumes the ... Read more..Monday, July 20th, 2009 Posted in Humour, Society | No Comments »
Enforcing an individual’s right to privacy once he’s swan-dived into the deep end of the Internet is a little like removing pee from a swimming hole. Still, Canada’s privacy commissioner is ... Read more..Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Was it just 15 months ago when Stephen Harper decided that Parliament needed a nanny, in the form of a “budget officer” by the name of Kevin Page? The prime minister ... Read more..Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
The automated email response from a colleague the other day left me scratching my head. “Thank you,” it began. “I will be on staycation from the 7th to the 24th. ... Read more..Monday, July 13th, 2009 Posted in Business, Economy | 1 Comment »
NANCY MATHIS IS NO KILLJOY. The executive director of the G. Wallace F. McCain Institute for Business Leadership at the University of New Brunswick appreciates a rousing tale of hope ... Read more..Monday, July 13th, 2009 Posted in Economy, General | No Comments »
The only thing that truly thrives during a recession, it seems, is a metaphor. The auto sector is a “lemon”. The financial industry is awash in “robber-barons”. Governments are “big ... Read more..