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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
For a man who claims to hate the presumptuous, free-spending ways of his predecessors, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a funny way of demonstrating disdain by example. What, exactly, is fiscally ... Read more..Friday, July 16th, 2010 Posted in Self-serving promotion | No Comments »
Atlantic Business Magazine wins double GOLD in international competition (Monday, July 12, 2010) Atlantic Business Magazine is proud to announce that Editor Dawn Chafe (St. John’s, NL) and Contributing Editor Alec ... Read more..Friday, July 16th, 2010 Posted in Economy | 1 Comment »
Academics and other linguistic alchemists love to use words like “paradigm” to bestow mystical significance on otherwise straightforward concepts. In fact, nothing could be simpler to comprehend than the increasingly ... Read more..Friday, July 16th, 2010 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is smart, educated, principled and genuinely devoted to the country of his birth, if not always his residence. We should like him, but we don’t. ... Read more..Friday, July 16th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »
For all its high-functioning strategists and soothsayers, the Stephen Harper government displays an extraordinary affection for rubbishy rubrics and trashy tropes. When in doubt – say the Conservative party’s marvellously ... Read more..Friday, July 16th, 2010 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
With one hand, they giveth; with the other, they shooteth themselves in their feet. And it’s becoming a bizarrely habit-forming pastime among the Shawn Graham Liberals. Mere days after New Brunswick ... Read more..Friday, July 16th, 2010 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
The New Brunswick government’s “letter of intent” with French atomic energy giant Areva to conjure the province’s nuclear future amounts to not much more than a gentlemen’s agreement to do ... Read more..Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in Business, Environment | No Comments »
Nothing about Yves Gagnon telegraphs the ambitions of an environmental reformer. Not the 65-foot, paved driveway that leads to his two-car garage. Not the multi-thousand-square-foot home he shares with his ... Read more..Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in Business | No Comments »
We embrace the words as the faithful do their relics: with devotion, hope and a flawed understanding of their meaning. Indeed, “The Leadership Principle” appears everywhere in the capitalist code ... Read more..Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in Business, Humour | No Comments »
Was it just the other day when to be an average white male of a certain age was to engender scorn and mistrust in the world’s emerging economies? After all, ... Read more..