You may recall a blog I wrote last year slamming the Northern Mayors in New Brunswick. I was particulary cranky on that day because I read a story that the Northern Mayors were banding together to demand the protection of…
Continue ReadingMaking hay while the sun shines
Andrew Coyne is just plain cranky. I heard him explaining this article on how stupid politics is in Canada last night on the CBC. For example, here’s a quote: The Conservatives, for their part, seem to have lost all interest…
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They got a blueprint up there in the government,They calling going forward, it’s the next move sideways. Jazz ButcherNext Move SidewaysFrom the album Fishcotheque Sometime during the middle 80s, I used to listen to a CBC late night radio program…
Continue ReadingOuch. Tough times to be a PC.
It seems like a lifetime, but just over one year ago, the New Brunswick PCs were riding high in the polls (someone told me their internal polls gave them a 12 point lead on the Liberals) and hoping to cruise…
Continue ReadingInteresting salary source
If you are having a slow day at work or other free time, you may want to check out this site. It give current wage rates by a number of different categories (education, industry, occupation, age, etc.). The frequency of…
Continue ReadingAlec Bruce and I apparently share the same opinion of our New Brunswick’s New Premier (TM). Only the indefatigably optimistic Shawn Graham could interpret a comment like “we never say never” as definitive proof that his genial negotiating style is…
Continue ReadingI took my harp to a party, nobody asked me to play….
….So I put the darn thing away. That’s how I feel sometimes when I see this stuff. When I hear talk about spending potential ‘gateway’ funding on electricity infrastructure to the U.S., I just get frustrated. What about the inland…
Continue ReadingBack to bizarro
In the last federal budget, the government announced that it would be moving its health and social transfers system to a “per capita” model where in order to get more funding, your population would have to be growing. This was…
Continue ReadingThe diaspora problem
A number of folks have commented on my last post about the East Coast Connected initiative. After a 90 second perusal of the website (and reading the Herald article), I suggested this might be a good way to link into…
Continue ReadingDispatches from the road: NYC
I decided to bring the kids to NYC for an extra long weekend. I hadn’t been here in eight years and wanted to get back to see Ground Zero, et. al. If there is such thing as a global economy,…
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