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The year of living gob-smacked
I can think of only one other year when circumstances conspired to render “yours truly” utterly speechless. 1995 saw me accidentally sever all the tendons in my right hand, deliberately dismiss my...
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St. Andrews by the ‘red sea’
There is nothing quite like an ancient hotel, full of political ghosts, creaking timbers and medieval-sized crackling fireplaces at which to stage a retreat for the reigning government of Canada in...
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What’s in a word?
It’s awfully nice work, if you can get it, though I suspect a facility with words – specifically, the ability to pull them from thin air – doesn’t hurt. Meet Sir Michael Barber, once a high-ranking...
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Becoming a debtor’s paradise
Suddenly, the Great White North, recently famous for its probity and prudence the world over, appears ready to throw itself off a fiscal cliff. What was forecast to be a small budget deficit in...
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For the man who has everything
It will be Canada’s first shot at the head table in 20 years. In fact, a state dinner with the putative leader of the free world is no small honour for a greenhorn prime minister of the Great White...
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Avoiding the ‘T’ word
To the best of my knowledge, New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant has been silent on the guy, whom some oddsmakers now insist, could become the next president of the United States. On the other hand,...
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A middle-class pick me up?
The one political rubric that defies partisan ownership these days is the plight of the so-called middle class. Everyone from U.S. President Barack Obama to populist rabble-rouser Donald Trump to...
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Cardboard cutouts
If the elements of the human body are worth, conservatively and according to some estimates, about two thousand bucks, what are we to make of the latest order from Global Affairs Canada to remove...
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More pennies from heaven
Federal budgets are primarily for journalists, pundits, lobbyists, think tankers, and other assorted members of the chattering class. I should know. I’ve been covering fiscal updates, in one form or...
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Scheer hope for local Tories
If browbeaten New Brunswick Tories were looking for some daylight in the political wilderness, they may have found it in the affable, perpetually smiling, slightly pudgy visage of 38-year-old Andrew...
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