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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
It may be pure happenstance that, according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, the federal government’s single, biggest percentage cut in public service employment over the next three years will be ... Read more..Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 Posted in Business, Economy | No Comments »
Like all authoritarians who blithely elevate their own opinions above everyone else’s, technocratistas in this country observe the strike at Canada Post as proof of their unassailably good judgement: The ... Read more..Monday, June 13th, 2011 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney believes Canadians are essentially conservative – or, at least, they are now that the Tory juggernaut has, over the past four years, convincingly transformed political sentiment ... Read more..Sunday, June 12th, 2011 Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »
The real secret about Stephen Harper is not that he’s a power-mad despot, bent on subjugating the will of the people through fiats of public relations, negative advertising and fear ... Read more..Thursday, June 9th, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Their envy has always been evident to residents of Moncton, but to imagine Halifax doyens would one day actually acknowledge their aching inferiority complex in the business of concert promotion ... Read more..Thursday, June 9th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
There’s nothing wrong with a province’s chief elected officer marshaling a cheer for the home team when the clock is running down and the game is too close to call. But ... Read more..Thursday, June 9th, 2011 Posted in Society | No Comments »
When Tae-Shik Maeng arrived in Moncton, he was a stranger in that strangest of all lands: the alien mindscape. The South Korean emigre and his wife and two sons faced ... Read more..Thursday, June 9th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
The absurdity of the Canada-U.S. “perimeter security” deal achieves apogee with a simple question: Can two neighbours shake hands through a brick wall? That, at least, seems to be what Prime ... Read more..Thursday, June 9th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
That 55 state functionaries would volunteer to leave their jobs years ahead of the end of their existing mandate and, in the process, accept what amounts to a savage cut ... Read more..Thursday, June 9th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
Generally, the symbols of Canadian identity give the world pause for bemused reflection – that is, when the world cares to think about us at all. Loons and beavers are ... Read more..