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Thursday, July 28th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Jack Layton’s dexterity in life and politics has always been his singular ability to surprise. As a Toronto city councillor back in the 1980s, he might have followed the well ... Read more..Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 Posted in Self-serving promotion | No Comments »
For Immediate Release July 26, 2011 (MONCTON) – New Brunswick-based journalist Alec Bruce has won top honours in an international editorial competition. Bruce received the Gold Award in the Regular Column ... Read more..Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
The tortured logic of Canada’s system of federal transfers to the provinces finds perfect expression in Premier David Alward’s recent suggestion that while all regions of the nation are equal, ... Read more..Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 Posted in Society | No Comments »
Toronto the Good shimmers, for me, more as mindscape than landscape. It was where I was born and spent what psychologists reliably assure are a man’s formative years, when his ... Read more..Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
The European Union digs deep and comes up with $148-billion to bail out the cradle of western civilization. Meanwhile, the globe’s standard bearer of free market enterprise is only days ... Read more..Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Economy | 1 Comment »
Nothing so deftly irritates the sore of want that afflicts the least prosperous among us than the sight of a government cleaving to the status quo. That’s why anti-poverty groups ... Read more..Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Media | No Comments »
Now comes the age of retribution, courtesy of one of the most powerful men (for the moment) in the world: An Australian press baron with no more practical sense than ... Read more..Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
When he counts the number of people in New Brunswick who have submitted ideas for the new provincial slogan (about 750), the Minister of Public Safety gets frisky. In fact, ... Read more..Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Society | No Comments »
In the year 1981 B.C. (before computers), I sold encyclopedias door to door in apartment complexes so monolithically ugly no renovator’s cosmetic skills could redeem them. And so, their tenants ... Read more..Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
The contrast between the current provincial government’s approach to shale gas exploration in New Brunswick and its predecessor’s attempt, last year, to sell NB Power to Hydro Quebec could not ... Read more..