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Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in Economy | 5 Comments »
There is a certain wild-eyed urgency to Shawn Graham’s second-only Throne Speech, a sort of feverish determination to touch, however lightly, on every facet of life and work in New ... Read more..Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Politics | 3 Comments »
Far more absurd than the New Brunswick government’s failure last week to clearly signpost the province’s long march to economic independence was the apparently widespread belief that it somehow would ... Read more..Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
I’m ready for the holidays. I’ve cleaned out my bank account, socked away my cash (it’s literally in socks – a different colour for each egregious category of spending over ... Read more..Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with the Canadian dollar, in that I’d love to have more of them, and hate that I my affection for the elegant, long-necked loonie ... Read more..Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Environment | 8 Comments »
Now that Ottawa has approved the province’s plan to restore the Petitcodiac River, but not the matching federal funds to do the job, the Premier of New Brunswick owes his ... Read more..Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Posted in Economy | 4 Comments »
When, a few years ago, the government of Bernard Lord insisted that video lottery terminals be restricted to restaurants and lounges, convenience stores across the province scrambled to set up ... Read more..Friday, November 9th, 2007 Posted in Education, Society | No Comments »
Rick Miner might have wished he was back behind his desk, sipping green tea and pondering some arcane matter of departmental procedure as president of Seneca College in Toronto. As ... Read more..Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Posted in Economy, Politics | 1 Comment »
For such electrifying news, the official announcement that Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams had finally nailed down an agreement with industry partners to develop the Hebron-Ben Nevis oil field ... Read more..Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Posted in Business, Economy | No Comments »
A few years ago, a Saint John lawyer characterized the city of his birth as a one-horse town, and then smiled the way people do when they realize they are ... Read more..Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »
One of the finest magazines produced in English, The Atlantic, celebrates 150 years of continuous publication this month by asking 50 notable U.S. citizens to expound on the future of ... Read more..