It’s safe to say there is a love-hate relationship between many New Brunswickers and the Irving/McCain duo. It would be hard to calculate the total economic impact of the two because their empires stretch into dozens of companies and investments…
Continue ReadingThe most important election issue no one is talking about
How’s that for a subjective blog title? But I will make the case for it. As you know, the Equalization system is basically set up to reward economic failure. If your economy can’t generate enough own source taxes, the Equalization…
Continue ReadingDear Mr. Irving, Thanks. Love, Bernie
Just took a look at exports from New Brunswick for the 12 months ending June 30, 2006 and compared them to the 12 months ending June 30, 2005. Outside of Irving, the picture ain’t pretty. Of the top 20 export…
Continue ReadingStudents, vote with your ballot not your feet
Statistics Canada just released their tuition fee data for Canadian provinces today. I know this stuff is getting to be old hat for you but here goes anyway. New Brunswick has the second highest undergraduate tuition fees in Canada (a…
Continue ReadingLearning from Eastern Europe
As I listen to Mr. Equalization demand more handouts from Ottawa, once and a while I need a tonic to remind me there is a better way (and no, that’s not a Gin and Tonic). I read this story recently…
Continue ReadingAll’s Quiet On The Inner City Front
All’s Quiet On The Inner City FrontBruce Cockburn1981 Blue billboard on the roof next doorMakes a square of light on the kitchen floorSmokes rises from a cigaretteThere’s a dull glisten where the table’s wetSoft breath rises from the bedA thousand…
Continue ReadingCRA poll has Tories up by 7 points
This is bad news for the NB Liberals. I wouldn’t trust a Bristol poll as far as I could throw it, but CRA’s stuff is usually bang on. Remember 2003. Anyway, the CRA poll shows that almost 6 out of…
Continue ReadingComin’ back up the road: Part 145
Premier Bernard Lord has announced a campaign promise to attract 2,500 former New Brunswickers back to the province. Lord says the four-year repatriation plan would build on one his government put in place in 2003. He says the original goal…
Continue ReadingOn being a CBC employee
You must require a thick skin to be a CBC journalist. There are whole blogs dedicated to hammering the CBC and even in New Brunswick, there are a few bloggers who hammer away with no apparent reason. So, one of…
Continue ReadingYou talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?
Remember that slick scene from Taxi Driver in 1976 with Robert De Niro? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the @#$! else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well, I’m…
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