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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Posted in Politics | 3 Comments »
It is, indeed, a great relief to know that the Prime Minister of Canada cherishes an outspoken and independent Fourth Estate. Why, just the other day, in a speech to ... Read more..Monday, November 23rd, 2009 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
Amid the bluster and bravado, the wilful misinformation and deliberate misinterpretation, surrounding the NB Power deal, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that Shawn Graham’s government is attempting ... Read more..Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in Business, Politics | No Comments »
Jonathan Dean – leader of the Atlantica Party, a former debating group that’s been gaining momentum and attention since its inception in Halifax in 2006 – unabashedly supports merging the ... Read more..Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in Business | No Comments »
Happy Boy from Kentucky wants to be my friend. But most of all, he wants to sell me something. Will I be interested in a load of organic top soil, ... Read more..Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in Business | 1 Comment »
My colleague, John Risley, who writes a column for Atlantic Business magazine (as I do), is an indisputably smart and accomplished guy. His vigorous, unapologetic stand on a wide variety of ... Read more..Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Posted in Politics | 3 Comments »
Oh, to be a fly on the wall at tomorrow’s Council of Atlantic Premiers meeting in Churchill Falls, Newfoundland. Anyone care to guess what’s on the agenda? For weeks the ... Read more..Monday, November 16th, 2009 Posted in Politics | Comments Off
Am I the only red-blooded Canadian male who found Vice-Roy Michaelle Jean, posing in an army general’s uniform, saluting the troops on Remembrance Day, totally hot? I mean, of course, she ... Read more..Monday, November 16th, 2009 Posted in Humour | No Comments »
She stood rigid with panic, clutching her ipod to her chest. Her eyes widened in the dim, fluorescent light of the hotel elevator. “What at do you want?” she demanded. ... Read more..Monday, November 16th, 2009 Posted in Politics, Society | 1 Comment »
I once rigged a tall ship in 40-foot swells 400 kilometres off the southern tip of Nova Scotia, piloted a sailing skiff five kilometres to shore after my father severed ... Read more..Monday, November 16th, 2009 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Finally, they appear – those first green shoots of economic recovery – just in time for the killing frosts of a long, dark winter. Capitalism’s cycles have always been infuriatingly ... Read more..