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Saturday, January 15th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Depending on who you consult, Liberals in this country are the most malodorous of all human detritus, whereas Conservatives sit on the right hand of God reeking of virtue and ... Read more..Saturday, January 15th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
The Harper government, ever mindful of its electoral base, peers skeptically at anything that can’t be explained to a grade schooler. The esoteric knowledge of climate change and renewable energy ... Read more..Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 Posted in Society | No Comments »
The killing spree in Tucson last Saturday, which extinguished the lives of a federal judge and five others and grievously wounded U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, proves only one thing: In ... Read more..Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 Posted in Business, Economy | No Comments »
The last time the “Atlantica” movement merited a headline in a major metropolitan daily newspaper, Brian Lee Crowley was ducking slurs and rotten eggs on a busy, downtown Halifax street. That ... Read more..Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 Posted in Business, Economy | No Comments »
Peter Kent, the former journalist and TV news anchor who traded in his press pass for a seat at Stephen Harper’s cabinet table, is an honest broker of Conservative government ... Read more..Thursday, January 6th, 2011 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »
It’s not the claim, itself – specifically, Americans “could learn a lot” from their cousins to the north – that causes our jaws to drop between bites of poutine and ... Read more..Thursday, January 6th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | 1 Comment »
The now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t con that is the Point Lepreau refurbishment project leaves legislators on both sides of the aisle in New Brunswick waxing angrily about the absurdity of their situation. As usual, ... Read more..Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 Posted in General | No Comments »
I was never an especially athletic kid. Downtown Toronto in the mid-1960s was an incubator of counter-cultural pretensions, not mutton-chopped devotion to physical exercise. In fact, sport of any kind ... Read more..Monday, January 3rd, 2011 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
The breaking days of this brave, new year afford the world a rare opportunity to kick the past to the curb and march merrily into the future. After all, unencumbered ... Read more..Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 Posted in Economy | 5 Comments »
Financial reporters have spilled more ink warning about the incipient threat of debt and deficit over the past year than at any time since the end of the great 1982 ... Read more..