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This just in – more moving out

Posted on September 30, 2005 by David Campbell

In the former Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was in charge of all propaganda – right down to editing articles that would be printed in the local paper. You would think there is a lesson in there for the provincial government’s…

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Did Moncton get hit by a Mack truck?

Posted on September 29, 2005 by David Campbell

Last year, Canadian Business magazine ranked Moncton as the #1 place in Canada to do business. Less than a year later, the community has dropped to 13th place. How can that happen? What fundamentally changed in the past 9 months?…

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No specific target – this time

Posted on September 29, 2005 by David Campbell

I got a couple of calls regarding my comments about our mayoral choices and how we need to elect a Mayor that has a vision for the community, etc. I am not talking about a specific mayor. I am talking…

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Al Hogan take heart

Posted on September 28, 2005 by David Campbell

Al over at the T&T will be happy to know that the Times & Transcript is not the only media outlet to misreport economic data. Check out this report from CTV: Canada’s population growth second among G-8CTV.ca News StaffCanada had…

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The Premier’s personal propagandist

Posted on September 27, 2005 by David Campbell

If you read my blog, you know I am sometimes critical of the Times & Transcript for its bias in reporting political issues as well of its lack of balanced reporting on economic issues. I further maintain that a newspaper…

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Quick note on gas prices

Posted on September 25, 2005 by David Campbell

It’s amazing to me how quick governments are to say they can’t do anything about the price of gas. As reported this weekend in the local newspaper: Fuel tax accounts for 40 per cent of the price of fuel and…

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13 straight years of out-migration – government pleased

Posted on September 24, 2005 by David Campbell

According to the Times & Transcript today: The provincial government has nearly doubled its repatriation goal by attracting 550 former New Brunswickers to return to work in New Brunswick.Once again, the government is playing on people’s lack of knowledge and…

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Closer To The Heart

Posted on September 23, 2005 by David Campbell

Closer to The HeartAnd the men who hold high placesMust be the ones to startTo mould a new realityCloser to the heart The blacksmith and the artistReflect it in their artForge their creativityCloser to the heart Philosophers and ploughmenEach must…

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An exercise in confusion

Posted on September 23, 2005 by David Campbell

Sometimes I think that governments go out of their way to try and confuse people. Case in point, the pie charts the New Brunswick government have been using widely to show people where the money comes to pay for government…

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T&T wants monopoly on local news

Posted on September 23, 2005 by David Campbell

In today’s We Say segment of the Times & Transcript, they once again called for the abolishment of the CBC. If this happened, we would be relegated to getting local news from either the T&T or the 60 second blast…

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