Archive for July, 2010

Summer of spies behaving badly

Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »

The first, and really only fundamental, lesson to learn about covert operations is secrecy. Apparently, Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Serve, missed that day in spy school. Appearing ... Read more..

Can we catch the wind?

Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »

You can lament the New Brunswick government’s often ham-handed approach to public consultation, its supercilious affection for meaningless, yet provocative, words like “self-sufficiency” and “transformational”, its tendency to leap before ... Read more..

The ancient art of walking and chewing

Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in Economy | No Comments »

The figure who best captures the temper of our times is not U.S. President Barack Obama or Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper or, in fact, any G20 leader, now properly ... Read more..

Don’t count Atlantic Canada out

Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in Economy, Society | No Comments »

Every country needs its whipping posts; those communities or regions outsiders feel perfectly sanguine about insulting and slurring. So why should it surprise anyone that in Canada, the Atlantic provinces ... Read more..

Time to rewire our harried brains

Saturday, July 10th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »

The Web, say some experts, is making mincemeat of our minds. What with chiming emails, beckoning Facebook and chirping Twitter, it’s a marvel any of us can focus for longer ... Read more..