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Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »
Has it been a whole year already? A whole year since Handsome Guy Chuckles marched into Freddy Beach, kicked the Lord Protector in the gut, and announced over the crumpled ... Read more..Thursday, September 27th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Humour | No Comments »
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s official position regarding the Atlantic Provinces is, “don’t bug me, and we’ll get along just fine.” Shawn Graham, New Brunswick’s conciliatory premier, doesn’t, so they do. It’s ... Read more..Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in Humour | 2 Comments »
You’re standing on a street corner thinking about that make-or-break presentation your boss expects to you nail in precisely six hours. And out of nowhere, an impossibly cheerful boy of ... Read more..Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in Education | No Comments »
Pity the poor foot soldiers who, lightly armed with government-issued letters of intent, combat the status quo in rhetorical trenches where logical paradoxes are as plentiful as landmines on a ... Read more..Thursday, September 20th, 2007 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
Plaintiffs describing themselves as “unaffiliated, visage-challenged citizens of Canada” launched a class action suit in federal court last week claiming that the government’s requirement to show their faces, before being ... Read more..Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Humour | 2 Comments »
I’ve been married to the same women for 27 years. My kids are grown and living on their own. And my parents are healthy and happily ensconced in Halifax. Apparently, ... Read more..Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 Posted in Humour, Politics | 3 Comments »
Of the many personas New Brunswick’s effervescent and media-wise premier has embraced over the past year, none, perhaps, is more apt than mountaineer. At a press conference in Fredericton last ... Read more..Tuesday, September 11th, 2007 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Thanks to what might be the least useful survey the provincial Grits have ever commissioned, New Brunswick’s vaunted self-sufficiency agenda has been transformed, on a wink and a prayer, into ... Read more..Thursday, September 6th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
In politics, good ideas are almost always ahead of their time. Drawn down by daily governance, undermined by special interests, compromised by the fearful or the foolish, a genuinely courageous ... Read more..Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 Posted in Humour, Society | 1 Comment »
Nothing sends the locals howling into the deep woods of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, like the sight of my 46-year-old body floating in the shallows of Chedabucto Bay. Even at ... Read more..