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…
Continue ReadingStep right up, folks
And now we present the Great Lordini and the spectacular vanishing Prosperity Plan. It will thrill you, and chill you like nothing you have ever seen. Brought to you by: Bristol Communications – The poll results you want to see……
Continue ReadingThere go the waffles
I know that I am starting to get old when the companies brought here under McKenna start closing their doors. There have been several high profile call centres shut down including Sun Life’s Moncton facility – going back five years…
Continue ReadingGoin’ down the road: Part 342
It’s now official. My brother told me last week he has received a job offer in the US and he will be taking it. His family of six will be packing up and leaving for greener pastures. This means they…
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