The debate between the cable/satellite companies and broadcasters over "fee for carriage" has been an unprecedented public relations campaign that makes political attack ads look tame.

While New Brunswick, Quebec and P.E.I. are working toward the regional energy supply that northeastern states are looking for, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams has been lighting political fires like a pyromaniac.

Saint John's on-street parking ban is designed for the advantage of municipal employees, rather than the public. In declaring that residents can have either working streets or plowed streets, City Hall has effectively announced it doesn't know how to manage street clearing.

Editor's note: the following remarks are taken from the opening exchange between Leader of the Opposition David Alward and Premier Shawn Graham during Question Period in the legislature on Wednesday.

Whod'a thunk it 11 months ago? The newly-re-elected minority Conservative government was going through its partially self-inflicted near-death experience, threatened by a cynically opportunistic coalition of the Liberal and NDP parties backed by the Bloc Quebecois, and the notion that Stephen Harper would still be not only governing, but looking as stronger than ever - getting contentious legislation like shutting down the long gun registry through votes in the House, and winning two of four byelections - would've seemed fanciful indeed.

In January, Saint Johners will reach a sad and frustrating anniversary: the three-year mark since 13 past and present pension board trustees launched a defamation lawsuit against John Ferguson, who was then a city councillor.

The proposed power pact has the potential to absorb most of the government's attention this legislative session, but it cannot be debated in isolation.

Regarding the letter "Hold off on Yule decorations," if I am not mistaken this is precisely why these good men and women gave their lives in the previous wars and the present world conflicts.

In the matter of the NB Power sale to Hydro-Québec, the Tuesday editorial in this paper makes a plea for putting the public before politics in this legislative session.

New Brunswickers are united in their pride in their province and in their confidence that we can be even greater, that we can create even more opportunities and that we can stand proudly as a leader among the provinces.

Herb Hunter (letter, Nov. 12) must be joking when he writes that Jean-Marie Nadeau "suggests that communism is the way to fight poverty in modern society."