Lot’s of people like Premier Lord. My dad was over today and he thinks he’s great. Great vision. Getting results together and all that boiler plate. But I still don’t know what a small c conservative is. My personal opinion…
Continue ReadingOne last desperate swipe
Al’s We Say in the T&T: We Say: On Monday, New Brunswick voters will choose what approach to government they wantA clear choice for N.B. voters On Monday, New Brunswick voters will choose a government for the next four years…
Continue ReadingThe Bristol Poll
Someone was kind enough to explain to me the difference between the Bristol ‘poll’ and the Bristol ‘panel’ and also provide me with the unspun numbers. Click here to view the results of the Bristol poll. It definitely shows a…
Continue ReadingMy my, the dogs are barking now
Don’t accuse the NB Tories of being lost in cyberspace. They have cranked up the blogosphere spin machine in the past few days. The CBC blog has six new comments this morning – everyone hammering poor ol’ Shawn Graham. Somebody…
Continue ReadingThe day after
No matter who wins on Monday, I have a piece of advice. Just a little something to tuck away along with the thousand other opinions being lobbed at the politicians these days. Raise your glasses. Congratulate yourselves on a job…
Continue ReadingLingering question
One thing’s for sure, if Don Mills is right and Moncton is the key battleground for the election, Al Hogan has certainly been a good foot soldier for the Tories. He’s got the big bus on the front page of…
Continue ReadingComparing the Platforms
Now that the Tories have finally released their platform, I will do a quick and dirty comparison of the two. I won’t comment on the health, education and other social initiatives. They are serving up lots of dough although Lord…
Continue ReadingArmed soldiers in our streets – We couldn’t make this stuff up
I was listening to the Moncton candidates give speeches on Rogers last night and I was about to change the channel when Marie-Claude Blais started speaking. She was obviously nervous and as much as I don’t like young people running…
Continue ReadingWe’ve come along way, baby
1999. Was it that long ago? Bernard Lord was claiming to be the “only party to include hard job creation targets in their platform”. Bernard Lord claimed he would develop a “made in New Brunswick approach to economic development”. Frank…
Continue ReadingIt must be fun to be Nova Scotia these days
First there was RIM and its 1,200 new jobs Then there was the 1,500 new jobs proposed for Parrsboro In the last few weeks there has been a slew of new jobs annoucements Manulife 150 new jobs TD Meloche Monnex…
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