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Friday, October 28th, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
As the European debt crisis deepens, and the chances weaken that the presidency of Barack Obama will be remembered for anything but a litany of economic disappointments in the long, ... Read more..Friday, October 28th, 2011 Posted in Economy, Environment | 3 Comments »
Does it take a former small-town mayor from nowhereville, Texas, to teach New Brunswickers the meaning of decorum? Was it decorous, for example, when the province’s deputy minister of Natural Resources ... Read more..Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
When some of the staunchest opponents of your tough-on-crime legislation – which includes a massive, multi-billion-dollar expansion of the federal penal system – comprise a posse of archly conservative, metaphorically ... Read more..Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Arguing for new taxes during a time of economic malaise is a little like building your own public pillory. Increasingly, though, economists here and abroad – those who don’t mind ... Read more..Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 Posted in Business | No Comments »
Every year at around this time, regardless of the economic weather, public officials dutifully draft peons to that noblest of all savages, the small business owner. He or she, they insist, ... Read more..Thursday, October 20th, 2011 Posted in Business, Economy | No Comments »
Had the Irving yard in Halifax failed to win the big prize in the federal government’s shipbuilding sweepstakes, you can bet that calls for immediate cessation from Confederation would have ... Read more..Thursday, October 20th, 2011 Posted in Business, Economy | No Comments »
If Premier David Alward truly intends to consult people about shale gas exploration in New Brunswick, he might want to start by asking a seismic survey company what it thought ... Read more..Thursday, October 20th, 2011 Posted in Business, Economy | No Comments »
What is there to cheer in these grim days of public debt, political mismanagement and boundless, bureaucratic mediocrity, when opportunity taps at the doors of vacant homes and offices before ... Read more..Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
It fell to one Moncton resident, cheerfully occupying the pedestrian mall outside city hall on Saturday, to articulate the essence of a popular movement that has become an overnight sensation ... Read more..Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
When people get depressed, and are desperate to recover their bearings, they make lists. So do political parties. New Brunswick’s Liberals have emerged from their long, dark night of the soul ... Read more..