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20 July 2008
Disclosure
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Submitted for your consideration: Clare-Marie Gosse ranting at Geoff Meeker and his comments on the demise of the Indy. She took issue w...
19 July 2008
A market for some young entrepreneur
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Basic economics. Apparently, it isn't just some provincial premiers who need some help understanding the numbers. There are plenty of o...
Eight candidates miss financial filing deadline; stats reports from elections office already received
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Apparently, the statistical reports on by-elections held since 2003 have been submitted as required by law, contrary to earlier reports....
Tarnishing the democratic legacy
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There are no candidates. There are no candidates because an election has not been called. Yet, under the perversions to the Electio...
Wanted: an entrepreneur
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There's no small irony that Bond Papers has been serialising the 1992 Strategic Economic Plan these past few weeks and at the same time...
Confederation 60
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The Bond Papers mast head for the next week marks the 60th anniversary of the two referenda in 1948 that paved the way for the Confederatio...
18 July 2008
"Squandered potential"
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That pretty much sums up the attitude many have toward the weekly newspaper The Independent , which may or may not survive past the issue th...
Premiers aren't financial geniuses
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Obviously. “If energy prices go up and people spend more on energy, you spend less in the economy,” Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach said. “Is it...
17 July 2008
Hollowing out
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From labradore , two posts describing the decline in the number of businesses in the economic zones across the province over the past decade...
Strong. Proud. Determined. (II)
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Some video of The Great Cultural Tradition. Part 1: Part 2: Compare those glorious holiday memories this same person...
16 July 2008
In defence of the House of Assembly
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If you were to read just the post at Polemic and Paradox , you'd imagine that the members of the House of Assembly management commit...
Damn-fool fishery: the politics of plunder
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CBC News has a story that should cause concern among people genuinely concerned about the fishery along the northeast coast. Information obt...
15 July 2008
The energy bubble
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Statistics Canada's export data for May showed, among other things, just how much oil and other energy products are driving the eco...
More important than people likely knew
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A signals intelligence gathering site at Gander is hardly something you'd expect to turn up in a news story, but turn up it did this wee...
Welcome to the Hurt Locker: Robert T. Johnson, Bronx District Attorney
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In this first installment of our new feature, we'll take a look at a little political story from the Big Apple that promises to grow. ...
14 July 2008
Change and Challenge: Chapter Five - New opportunities for growth
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The Province's fisheries, forestry and mining industries cannot be expected to provide much, if any, net increase in employment during ...
Nova Scotia gets $870 million in offshore settlement
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Notice what is going to happen to the money. 92% will go to debt reduction. Eight per cent will go into three different long term funds: one...
13 July 2008
The Sunday Funnies
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Do a google search and sometimes weird things pop up. For example, some poor sod from somewhere near Quetta looking for commentary on scho...
More bang for the buck.
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There's no secret to it, fat or otherwise. It doesn't cause cancer, nor is it a secret cancer cure. It's definitely green, thoug...
Enough's enough Percy. Get a lawyer.
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If Jerome was still in private practice, Percy Barrett could have hired him to deal with what is evidently a very serious mess in the just...
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