It's The Economy, Stupid

I know I have posted on this before but isn’t it strange? Canada’s New Government Announces $718,839 Contract Awarded to Refurbish Riding Mountain National ParkDec 21 Canada’s New Government Partners With UNICEF and the World Food Programme to Assist Families…

A few things of interest (to me at least) this am. EndsFirst, as widely anticipated, the NB Liberals concluded their external audit of the books and have uncovered a whopping deficit left by the Tories. I blogged on this before…

Stephane Dion was quite disturbed by how stupid Monctonians were when he spent six months here in the early 1980s. There must be a few bright Monctonian… Moncton researchers find biomarker for prostate cancer Cancer researchers in Moncton have developed…

The federal Conservative government is set to reveal another part of its clean-air strategy Wednesday with a $200-million plan to promote biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel, industry sources say. Environment Minister Rona Ambrose and Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl are…

Women made up 56 percent (about 8 million) of the undergraduate student population and 59 percent (about 2 million) of the graduate students in 2005, according to the latest data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau on school enrollment…

Make Way for YOUth is a new program that “aims to reverse the tide of young adults who leave Nova Scotia’s rural communities for work and school chances that can’t be found at home, and to create opportunities for people…

I’m too cheap to spend the $20 bucks to get this report but Alberta media is reporting on it. A new study says Alberta’s economic boom is making it harder for businesses in Atlantic Canada to find workers. The Atlantic…

For the blog regulars, you may want to skip this one. It is more oriented to the few new people that have been tuning in but have not read the 1093 previous blogs. For regulars, divert yourself by reading Feschuk’s…

Sorry folks. Another rant this AM. I have tried to avoid them but after reading a series of stories out of Ontario and Alberta last week, I feel compelled. It seems to me that we have deeply embedded in our…

Good luck with that. Robert Cox wants to bring some professionalism to the blogosphere. As president of the Media Bloggers Association, Cox is about to unveil new membership policies designed to help bloggers who see themselves more as journalists than…