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Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Earning the International Monetary Fund’s imprimatur is no mean feat for any country in this globally incestuous community of nations languishing at the business end of the worst economic downtown ... Read more..Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »
The wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth have commenced at the centre of the known universe, and the mournful wails of the astonished heavenly host can be heard even ... Read more..Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
What the Auditor-General giveth, the Auditor-General taketh away. Or so says the bible (with apologies to the Book of Job) of Parliament Hill. In fact, Shiela Fraser’s fall report – always ... Read more..Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
We have lost our bid to join the UN Security Council. Developing nations are incensed with our apparent disinterest in the global poor. And our staunchest allies are bemused by ... Read more..Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Business | No Comments »
Sitting there in an office of his clap-board and pill-box house, at the edge of what passes for downtown Dieppe, the chief entrepreneurial officer of Momentum Group couldn’t stop fidgeting. ... Read more..Friday, October 22nd, 2010 Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »
It’s not the edifying spectacle in irony of Canada’s official “integrity commissioner” under investigation by the Auditor-General for unspecified reasons that fascinates; it’s the revelation that the public service actually ... Read more..Friday, October 22nd, 2010 Posted in Economy, Humour | No Comments »
Had the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) ranked Moncton near the bottom of its most recent list of the country’s most entrepreneurial cities, I would have been forced to ... Read more..Friday, October 22nd, 2010 Posted in Humour, Society | No Comments »
Face it: Girls are better than boys. Or so they tell me. They are faster, more accomplished readers. They earn higher grades. More of them graduate from colleges and universities. They ... Read more..Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 Posted in Education | No Comments »
Something about the dreadful disrepair of both Moncton High School and the relationship between its District Education Council and the Government of New B runswick brings to mind a classic ... Read more..Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 Posted in Media, Politics | No Comments »
Headlining the National Post’s website last Thursday was a piece that confidently declared the federal Conservatives had pulled slightly ahead of their Grit nemeses, a claim made credible by the ... Read more..