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Sunday, August 21st, 2011 Posted in Business, Economy | No Comments »
If I had more money than God Almighty, I might also want to be uncommonly generous with it. But it’s a safe bet I wouldn’t broadcast my predilections on the ... Read more..Sunday, August 21st, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
One of the branded characteristics of the Harper government is its steely determination to do what it thinks is right – for the country or merely itself, as the case ... Read more..Monday, August 15th, 2011 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »
From his second-floor window, overlooking a broad expanse of his north London neighborhood, a friend watches as three police cruisers scream by, enroute to the worst urban carnage there in ... Read more..Monday, August 15th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
In his spookily prescient book, “The Post-American World: Ver. 2.0”, Time magazine’s editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria argues that if the United States is to retain a prominent place in the imagination ... Read more..Monday, August 15th, 2011 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »
Is this the best time to be a Canadian? Macleans magazine certainly thinks so. Or it did earlier this summer when it proudly asserted, “Canada ranks third [in the world] for ... Read more..Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
In a week of historic and unwelcome prototypes, the most seemingly innocuous was actually the most seeringly significant. When Barack Obama addressed the world on Monday, after Standard & Poor’s had ... Read more..Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 Posted in Business, Economy, Politics | No Comments »
Even as New Brunswick settles into the steady-state of mid-summer, when all that calls for urgent attention is the lawn or that second martini, clouds begin to rumble on the ... Read more..Monday, August 8th, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
They call it a “correction” because to describe it in any other way – as, say, “Holy shattered synapses, Batman, I think I just lost my intestinal fortitude” – might ... Read more..Monday, August 8th, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
It wafts down the streets of our minds, familiar yet remote: A fragrance smelling like hope and, therefore, in this troubled epoch, staggering the imagination. The recent U.S. debt-ceiling crisis proved ... Read more..Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
The roasting of Nycole Turmel in the nation’s organs of opinion recalls another country’s earlier era of inquisition: “Are you or have you ever been a communist?” The NDP’s interim honcho, ... Read more..