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Friday, January 27th, 2012 Posted in Media, Society | 1 Comment »
If I say, hypothetically, that a particular peace officer – the enfant terrible, let’s say, of a local neighbourhood beat – is a rabble-rousing, trouble-making bully, then said cop might ... Read more..Friday, January 27th, 2012 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Only in the United States can a fundamentally boring man find himself drawn and quartered in the square of public opinion. In Canada, we simply elect our dullards. It’s only later ... Read more..Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 Posted in Media, Politics | No Comments »
Once, it was a rare and much-coveted designation. Now, it’s a social disease that’s easier to contract than a case of Montezuma’s revenge from a greasy spoon. Traditionally, “elite” (adjective) meant ... Read more..Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
In the titanic struggle to rescue New Brunswick from the rubble of fiscal collapse, the casualties begin to mount. Among the first, it seems, is coherence. Late last year, Premier David ... Read more..Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
If, as New Brunswick Finance Minister Blaine Higgs suggests, elections are actually auctions for the affections of the electorate, bid with promises, then someone has neglected to pay the bill, ... Read more..Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 Posted in Economy, Society | No Comments »
Apparently, the largest encyclopedia in human history, the venerable and omniscient Wikipedia, never heard of the escape button located in the upper left quadrant of the more than four billion ... Read more..Thursday, January 19th, 2012 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Cataloguing all the ways governments waste tax dollars is the journalistic equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel: It’s easy and not very sporting. Still, the compendium, “99 stupid things the ... Read more..Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
The federal Grits, it seems, are getting their groove back. If by groove we mean they’re talking about “important” issues again. Issues, like whether Kate Middleton’s grammy-in-law deserves the $1.53 each ... Read more..Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Draw any conclusion, lay any indictment, utter all the “I-told-you-so’s” you like. In the end, none of it will rouse the sleepwalker that is the New Brunswick economy. Of course, Auditor ... Read more..Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
The Switzerland-based World Economic Forum has just issued its “Global Risks 2012” report, and from the looks of this particular recipe for disaster, now would be a good time to ... Read more..