What do you call an economy that is a) losing population to out-migration at a record pace, b) facing worker shortages in most areas of the province (including Miramichi and the North) and c) has an increasing number of people…
Continue ReadingNDP/Tories need to stop complaining and start providing alternatives
Dennis Atchison, former NDP candidate, has a scathing piece in the TJ today entitled “McKenna, McGuire policies failed N.B.”It it, he lists a few of the McKenna cuts in the 1990s and tries to then say that’s a good reason…
Continue ReadingNeed a few more ‘geeks’ in New Brunswick
I got an email from Geeks on Ice. Check it out: I have a tentative commitement from SUN Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy to come play in the 2008 Geeks on Ice tournament. He also expressed interest in knowing more about…
Continue ReadingLaw making party salary topups illegal
Al Hogan has said time and time again that he likes the ability for political parties to be able to pay their leaders a ‘top up’ so that guys like Premier Lord can be the highest paid Premier in Canada.…
Continue ReadingLightning fast history revisionism
It would seem that Lisa Keenan is prepping a run for the NB Tory leadership. She seems fairly bright and would likely bring a lot to that job. However, I continue to maintain that whomever takes over the PC Tories…
Continue ReadingMore questions than answers
Random questions: Why is it the older I get the more uncertain I get about things? I was had the most certainty in my life when I was 20. Whatever happened to getting ‘old and stuck in your ways’? If…
Continue ReadingStrange bedfellows, indeed
I am kind of tickled pink to be listed on this blog roll. I can tell you that I don’t agree with many of the viewpoints in this broadcastnb site but I can tell you this. Of the guys/gals that…
Continue ReadingTom Young up at arms
Just caught a few minutes of Tom Young’s call in show in Rogers 91.9 in Moncton. He is about to blow his top because apparently Canoe.ca had a poll asking the question would it be easier to root for Sidney…
Continue ReadingOne track mind
You’ll have to forgive me but every time I see a new conference on Canada’s ‘prosperity’, my mind turns to one thing: Wouldn’t prosperity be enhanced if the What ya wanna bet Atlantic Canada’s woes won’t even be on the…
Continue ReadingA few thoughts on enormity
I finally got a chance to briefly scan through the self-sufficiency taskforce reports and recommendations to date. All I can say is that these guys are either looney or the greatest visionaries to come down the pike in a long…
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