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Friday, April 29th, 2005 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Never have so few spent so much to achieve so little. Paul Martin’s $4.6-billion curtsey to NDP honcho Jack Layton earlier this week will rank among the biggest political blunders ... Read more..Friday, April 22nd, 2005 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Canada’s fledgling ambassador to the United States is already living up to the orchestrated hype that heralded his posting to Washington a few months ago. Taking umbrage to a remark ... Read more..Tuesday, April 19th, 2005 Posted in Business | No Comments »
A business user of wireless services agrees to switch to a provider who, in turn, supplies him with a new cell phone. The phone, the customer soon discovers, is defective. ... Read more..Friday, April 15th, 2005 Posted in Environment | 1 Comment »
On most days and under most circumstances, Royall (Mike) Victor III is a garrulous, easy-going businessman who cherishes the time he spends each summer along the banks of his beloved ... Read more..Friday, April 15th, 2005 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
It may well be Canada’s most egregious political scandal in living memory, but the “money-for-nothing” sponsorship debacle currently under investigation by the Gomery Inquiry is not having the damaging effect ... Read more..Thursday, April 14th, 2005 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
The stentorious proclamations by elected officials that Canada’s young people are failing their country by refusing to take an interest in public service are rapidly fading into the shrivelled whines ... Read more..Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 Posted in Humour, Society | No Comments »
It was October, 1984, and the weather in downtown Toronto had turned to gold. But I – chained to a computer terminal in the nicotine-stained, neon-illuminated bowels of the Globe ... Read more..Tuesday, April 5th, 2005 Posted in Economy, Humour | No Comments »
“John Ibbitson of The Globe and Mail says transformation to a ‘Six-City Canada’ will make P.E.I. irrelevant unless it develops more economic independence.” – Charlottetown Guardian, March 31, 2005, on the ... Read more..Friday, April 1st, 2005 Posted in Economy | 4 Comments »
Like a modern-day Marco Polo, a business associate of mine has recently returned from the mysterious Orient with tales of wealth beyond reckoning and works beyond measure. “But,” he laughs, ... Read more..