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Friday, April 28th, 2006 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
May I say that I have never been a fan of black holes. Sitting out there in the universe like a bunch of fat boobs at a cosmic Arby’s, gobbling down ... Read more..Friday, April 28th, 2006 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
To travel the highways and country roads that connect the Port of Saint John with the City of Bangor is to travel back in time. Nothing about the groves and ... Read more..Friday, April 28th, 2006 Posted in Atlantica, Business, Economy | No Comments »
When Mario Theriault talks about the future, as he often does, he conjures a horn of plenty: an Atlantic Canada where borders between provinces and U.S. states as far south ... Read more..Thursday, April 27th, 2006 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Twenty years ago, when I was the third man of three who staffed the Globe and Mail’s Toronto City Hall bureau, Alderman Jack Layton made a point of frequently dropping ... Read more..Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 Posted in Business | No Comments »
Once, in the cold waters of the North Atlantic, cod were as numerous as pebbles on a beach. They teemed in the Grand Banks and the mouth of the St. ... Read more..Monday, April 24th, 2006 Posted in Business | No Comments »
Ask Eric Cook, Executive Director and C.E.O. of the Fredericton-based, New Brunswick Research and Productivity Centre (RPC), what makes Atlantic Canada, of all places on Earth, the place to be, ... Read more..Sunday, April 23rd, 2006 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
The dominant image of Canada’s four Atlantic Provinces – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfounfland and Labrador – as a region of rugged beauty and bucolic charm ... Read more..Friday, April 21st, 2006 Posted in Atlantica | No Comments »
To the astonishment of exactly no one, China has officially overtaken Britain and France to become the world’s fourth-largest economy. With a GDP of $1.5 trillion (USD), the so-called ‘Secret ... Read more..Thursday, April 20th, 2006 Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »
When she was leader of New Brunswick’s New Democratic Party – and its only sitting member – Elizabeth Weir was a voice for the mute in a province of preening ... Read more..Friday, April 14th, 2006 Posted in Economy, Society | No Comments »
My daughter, Jess, is drop-dead gorgeous and wicked smart. She’s a straight-A student at Mount Allison University, an animal-rights activist, an accomplished dancer, and a loyal friend to dozens who ... Read more..