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Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Society | No Comments »
For an unreconstructed Hog Town boy like me, the streetcar ride from Toronto’s western reaches to its eastern beaches is a 45-minute sojourn down memory lane. Moments in time flash ... Read more..Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Society | 2 Comments »
Comparing the Conservative Government of Canada’s immigration policies favourably to the previous crew of dunderheads who occupied the highest elected offices in the land is a little like picking an ... Read more..Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council is justly famous for its ability to induce comas with every statement it makes about the regional economy. In its most recent report, the think ... Read more..Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Economy | 3 Comments »
The fact that Victor Boudreau employed the phrase “slowdown in the U.S. economy” five times in Tuesday’s budget speech makes me suspect that the unflappable finance minister was, for once, ... Read more..Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
Genetic experiments, environmental degradation, drug abuse and poverty top the list of the Vatican’s just-released compendium of new sins for the 21st Century. “The poor are always becoming pooer, and ... Read more..Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Economy | 2 Comments »
Amid the gleaming teeth and glad hands, the bright lights and bold pronouncements, the heavy breathing about “self sufficiency”, and the gold-plated promises of better times ahead, I have been ... Read more..Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Politics, Society | 1 Comment »
Cain murdered his brother. Noah let his neighbours drown. Lot abandoned his wife to the desert. David killed Goliath with a stone. Jesus was beaten, cut, whipped, and nailed to ... Read more..Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
Charles Perry, the Moncton Times & Transcript's intrepid weather reporter, is, by all accounts, a decent fellow. He doesn’t kick dogs to the curb. He doesn’t throw soup in people’s faces. ... Read more..Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
In this corner is the undisputed heavyweight champion of all things greasy and gassy in Atlantic Canada, the towering Irving Oil Ltd. of Saint John, New Brunswick. In the other, ... Read more..Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Business | 2 Comments »
Asked to explain the mechanics of his business, Mario Theriault, the wisecracking president of the most successful market intelligence firm in New Brunswick, performs like a comic with an open ... Read more..