This is interesting. CHICAGO (Reuters)—Chicago’s city council Wednesday passed one of the nation’s strictest “living wage” laws, requiring large retailers to pay escalating hourly wages and benefits.Opponents said they would challenge the ordinance in court, arguing that it unfairly singles…
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Maclean’s magazine’s online poll asks the question: Should the fiscal imbalance make tax revenues continue to be transferred from rich to poor provinces to ensure equal public services across Canada? At 8 am this morning, 40% said no. Now, they…
Continue ReadingPop Quiz: What do rural NB and Europe have in common?
I’m thinking of transforming this blog into a gossip rag. You know, keep the theme but reorient around juicy gossip. You see, I am getting more and more little emails with interesting tidbits of information. For example, I just heard…
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Check this out: Survey says grads prize balance, ethics over payCanada’s newest college grads prize work/life balance over all other benefits, according to a new survey of university students born between 1979 and 2001. The flexible work environment they covet…
Continue ReadingIn this case, no news is good news
You know the old story, any publicity is good publicity? Probably not in this case. Vigilante violence shakes serene N.B. tourist townSHAWNA RICHERFrom Tuesday’s Globe and MailGrand Manan, the pretty archipelago in the Bay of Fundy, is typically tranquil, best…
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You have heard about the super bugs? Those viruses that are immune to treatment and propagate ferociously? I have identified a new one. It’s called wakin’up-to-reality disease otherwise known as Alec Bruce syndrome. Peter Moreira, a writer for the Halifax…
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The Conference Board recently released a report on the importance of Canada’s ‘hub cities’. The problem, at least if you are a NBer, is that there was no NB city in the mix. Only Halifax. Not having a dominant urban…
Continue ReadingA lament for high school teacher political consultants
Before I’ve even had coffee this morning. I read in the Telegraph-Journal a commentary from a Saint John-based high school teacher with advice for Shawn Graham on how to win the next election. His strategy? This is cut and paste:…
Continue ReadingNova Scotia Film Development Corporation
Do we have one of these in New Brunswick?
Continue ReadingThe wrath of Al Hogan
Check out the ‘Words to inspire’ section of the Times & Transcript today: Times & TranscriptNews – As published on page d7 on July 25, 2006 Words to inspire People who oppose the authorities are opposing what God has done,…
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