The L’Acadie Nouvelle ran a piece this morning about Premier Lord’s federal ambitions and how this election will allow him to test the waters. I don’t know about you but I am still waiting to see his ambitions for New…
Continue ReadingYou know you’ve been blogging too long when…
…you wake up from sleep with a blog topic. Sheesh. I think that I may need therapy. But that’ll have to wait. I wonder if we ever really looked at what we are paying for health care and if we…
Continue ReadingNB 8th in Average Household Expenditures
This is one of those stats that gets everyone arguing. Is this a good thing (i.e. a low cost of living) or a bad thing (low income leads to low expenditures)? I guess it depends on who you are talking…
Continue ReadingHurrah for the Port of Halifax
For those of you that dig the rivalry between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, you’re just going to have to trust me on this one. What’s good for the Port of Halifax is good for all of Atlantic Canada. If…
Continue ReadingLiberals hold a 25-point lead in Atlantic Canada
According to the daily SES Research poll, the Liberals hold a 25-point lead in Atlantic Canada, and an 11-point edge in Ontario. In Western Canada, the Conservatives are ahead by 11 points. In Quebec, 51 per cent of respondents would…
Continue ReadingConservative misalignment of message
It seems to me the Federal Conservatives have got their messaging all wrong in this election. It seems to me that the heady backroom boys/gals in Toryland believe that they lost the last election because they did not offer enough…
Continue ReadingCute parlour trick
I just reviewed the Question Period from the NB Legislature for Friday. Here’s a quote the Premier made: “That is why, as our member stated this morning, there are close to 30 000 more jobs in New Brunswick this year…
Continue ReadingCorporate subsidies or community investments?
I have started reading Rescuing Canada’s Right by Tasha Kheiriddin and Adam Daifallah. At the same time I am trying to squeeze in Ibbitson’s tome A Polite Revolution at the same time as well as a biography of Harry Truman…
Continue ReadingLord rolling the dice
I talked before about the difference between good politics and good policy. Our Premier had decided to be the most significant national spokesperson against Paul Martin in this election. Not binns. Not Hamm. Not Williams. Our guy. He fired harsh…
Continue Reading"We Say" slip of the tongue
Somebody once speculated that the “We Say” segment of the Times & Trashscript was written by different people. At first I was skeptical of this as every, and I mean every, editorial about the provincial government and the Premier was…
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