Archive for July, 2010

Leadership by ignorance

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..

Moncton journalist takes international gold

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..

Universities key to economic progress

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..

Our suspicious, summer minds

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..

Leadership by lowest common denominator

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..

Their mouths going nuclear

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..

The mighty windbags blow

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..

The wind man

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..

Reimagining the leadership principle

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..

Reflections on being vanilla

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..