Archive for December, 2010

Bye-bye baby boomers

Friday, December 10th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Society | 1 Comment »

For awhile there, we didn’t know what to call ourselves. Were we beatniks, folkies, mods, hippies or yippies? Then, one fine day, American journalist Landon Jones – one of our ... Read more..

Canada’s climate change contradictions

Thursday, December 9th, 2010 Posted in Economy, Environment | No Comments »

The joists beneath Canada’s social policy framework are beginning to creak, thanks to the excessive weight that’s generated when a nation’s leaders house too many contradictory plans and priorities under ... Read more..

Finally, a sign of intelligent life

Thursday, December 9th, 2010 Posted in Economy, Humour | No Comments »

A reader writes: “I very much enjoy and admire your columns in the Times & Transcript. I sympathise with your recent one (November 24, 2010) regarding the difficulty of grasping ... Read more..

Diplomacy in the “show me” era

Thursday, December 9th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not anyone’s idea of a diplomat. Arguably, as the leader of the world’s tenth largest economy, he doesn’t have to be. But more than this, ... Read more..

Beware of entropy’s influence

Friday, December 3rd, 2010 Posted in Economy | No Comments »

It’s over now, and all that remains are the empty coffee cups and the occasional swag bag from New Brunswick’s first, formal groupthink on the state of the province’s coffers. ... Read more..

What’s so good about growth?

Friday, December 3rd, 2010 Posted in Economy | No Comments »

Money is like oxygen. We only really think about it when it starts to run out. And we’ve been thinking about it a lot these days. Across the benighted planet, so-called developed ... Read more..