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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics, Society | No Comments »
In what must be the most comprehensive analysis in recent years of culture’s impact on the national economy, the Conference Board of Canada – no bastion of latte-swilling, granola-crunching lefties ... Read more..Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics | 3 Comments »
They would have you perceive them as white knights, and their enemies as bottom-feeding methane-belchers. They would promise to protect you from the odor of abject failure if only you ... Read more..Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics | 3 Comments »
Will three seemingly unrelated stories, tucked innocuously in the good, grey pages of the Report on Business yesterday, rouse the conscience of a drowsy nation? Or will they be ignored ... Read more..Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in Politics | 2 Comments »
As we slip inexorably into election season, see how fast and hot the political windbags of summer blow with nothing so mundane as real leadership to restrain them. Canada’s peripatetic Prime ... Read more..Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in Humour, Politics | 2 Comments »
ONLY DAYS AFTER announcing the elimination of two funding programs for Canadian artists, the federal Conservative government, facing a storm of protest, agreed to reinstate several components of the initiatives. ... Read more..Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Fido snatches a baby from a crocodile’s mouth, aliens steal the brains of notable politicians, and “batboy” arrives to confirm that the likeness of the Virgin Mary does, indeed, materialize ... Read more..Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Once, you could pick sides and still believe in the New Brunswick government’s aggressively Liberal platform. You could adore its moxie, but despise its arrogance; endorse its policies, but reject ... Read more..Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics, Society | 1 Comment »
The federal Tories have never particularly liked Canada’s cultural establishment. And, with its iconoclastic sensibility, its tendency to poke the power elite in their jaundiced eyes, why would they? But, in ... Read more..Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »
The Eagles. Elton John. John Fogerty. Alice Cooper. Sam Roberts. Did I miss anyone? Beethoven, Bach, Motzart, perhaps? Seriously, when did this gritty, little town become a magnet for the ... Read more..