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Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
After last year’s near riot over the aborted NB Power/Hydro-Quebec deal, even suggesting that La belle province holds a better handle on its long-term energy future than almost any other ... Read more..Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Environment | No Comments »
One of New Brunswick’s more devoted climate-change skeptics urges all of us to resist the claims of those “who have negligible scientific knowledge and who have not studied the subject ... Read more..Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
In his five years as Canada’s chief lawmaker, Stephen Harper has committed only two crimes worthy of his incarceration as a minority prime minister. Oh sure, he’s wracked up a baker’s ... Read more..Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
The provincial government insists it’s determined to heed the call of New Brunswick’s vox populi before it makes energy policy. But, let’s face it, when has “public consultation” ever been ... Read more..Friday, January 28th, 2011 Posted in Business | No Comments »
A two-tiered minimum wage – one for kids under 18; and a higher one for everyone else – may be corrupt, exploitative, illegal, or just plain dumb. But what it ... Read more..Friday, January 21st, 2011 Posted in General | No Comments »
I fly, but not because I want to. After all, what thinking human being believes strapping into an aluminum can that scrapes the troposphere at 600 kph actually facilitates either ... Read more..Friday, January 21st, 2011 Posted in Economy, Society | No Comments »
The moral authority that money bestows is in direct proportion to the size of the loot bag. So when, last summer, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett – two of the ... Read more..Friday, January 21st, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Among big game hunters of the world’s fiscal Serengeti, it is generally accepted that one’s chances of bringing down an elephant the size of New Brunswick’s deficit are better with ... Read more..Friday, January 21st, 2011 Posted in Economy, Society | 2 Comments »
As Moncton’s city fathers and mothers embark on another municipal naval-gazing exercise, a familiar and persistent question arises: Must our best, most innovative, plans inevitably abandon us? Urban development will always ... Read more..Friday, January 21st, 2011 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
“Canada’s broadcast standards council has reached back to 1985’s Top 40 to ban an anti-gay epithet in an old Dire Straights hit from the radio” – The Globe and Mail, ... Read more..