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Monday, May 16th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
As Auditor General Sheila Fraser nears the end of her ten-year appointment, with just more than two weeks to go till sweet liberation, the silence surrounding the identity of her ... Read more..Monday, May 16th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Society | No Comments »
Divining the future of a city’s cultural landscape is a little like surveying the horizon: Without a reference point, where do you begin? It’s a question that vexes urban planners just ... Read more..Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
Here’s what normally happens when a company’s senior managers flagrantly ignore the specific edicts of their board of directors: The former receive pink slips and a five-minute warning to vacate ... Read more..Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
Stephen Harper has spent the better part of a decade dolefully remaking his image in Atlantic Canada, a region famous for its long memories and short tempers. Almost exactly nine years ago, ... Read more..Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Society | 3 Comments »
We’re getting older and we’re not replacing ourselves which is why New Brunswick can expect to find itself on the scrap heap of the national economy within a generation. We know ... Read more..Sunday, May 8th, 2011 Posted in Self-serving promotion | 2 Comments »
May 7, 2011 – Alec Bruce, Contributing Editor of Atlantic Business Magazine, won two Golds in the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards for Atlantic Canada's leading business magazine. The categories were: "Magazine ... Read more..Thursday, May 5th, 2011 Posted in Politics | 2 Comments »
More intriguing than deputy NDP leader Thomas Mulcair’s doubts about the existence of photos of the dead Osama bin Laden is his motive for broadcasting them. What possible benefit accrues, either ... Read more..Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
The difference between 58.8 per cent voter turnout and 61.4 per cent is perishingly small. But that was the tale of the tape in this election (58.8 per cent in ... Read more..Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
From the outset of the election campaign, Elizabeth May, deliberately ignored by the national media and dismissed by the major parties, struggled to achieve her modest objective of securing, for ... Read more..Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
With the perfect vision that hindsight affords, the country’s chattering class now assesses Monday night’s election results with a mixture of gravitas and knowing shrugs. Of course, Stephen Harper was destined ... Read more..