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Waiting outside for shots was shameful
I fully understand that socialized medicine means long lines and long wait times. It is something that we, as Canadians, have come to expect.
Love's all you need to adopt a child
Many advantages in life can be acquired. But what of the first resource a helpless child must depend upon?
AECL's debts are a federal matter
The federal government's position on Atomic Energy of Canada Limited grows more tenuous by the day. New Brunswick taxpayers can see Ottawa backing the Crown utility's financial obligations with cold, hard cash - so why won't officials cover the full cost of AECL's delays in New Brunswick?
Savings on property taxes are coming soon
It will soon be that time of year again when the provincial government provides cities, towns and villages with their tax base information, which they will in turn use to set their tax rates.
Danny Williams: all elbows
So Premier Danny Williams is lecturing New Brunswickers about giving away their hydro asset.
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Public wants answers, not just attitude
The volume has been turned up to 11 by the opposition Tories on the proposed deal between Quebec and New Brunswick for the sale of NB Power.
Life is unfair; we all know this
It costs $722 to fly from St. Paul/Minneapolis to Bismarck, N.D., and you can fly from St. Paul/Minneapolis to Paris for $754.
Feeling the electric shock
The provincial government was elected with the energy axis as one of its three core campaign projects (along with education and the economy). It then led the province by focusing on the concept of self-sufficiency.
N.B.'s lost opportunity
Last week, the government's deal with Hydro-Québec had some believers - aside from the Liberal caucus and Jean Charest, of course. But this week, even those who initially thought it might be a positive move have changed their tune.
Our first allegiance should be to Canada
It disturbed me to read that some 40 francophone schools want to opt out of singing the Canadian anthem daily. It's commendable the schools' objective is to instill pride in the students' language and heritage, but it shouldn't eclipse national pride.
A byword for 'boondoggle'
On Wednesday, MPs took the first significant step toward repealing the national long-gun registry. In 1995, the registry was expected to cost $119 million.
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Medical programs offer hope for the future
On Wednesday, Premier Shawn Graham announced more than $2 million in construction contracts at UNB's Saint John campus.
Strike a deal for Quebec child care, too
There's a rumour I'm starting - you can help spread it - that New Brunswick's next sale to Quebec will be our child care centers.
Bill 101 to face foe from within
A decade ago, former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion startled many of his colleagues when he described Quebec's Bill 101 as a "great Canadian law."
Power play's a losing gambit
I remember exactly where I was when the New Brunswick Conservatives lost the 2006 provincial election. I was in Moncton and it was Election Night 2003.
Council works to defend public interest
Deputy Mayor Stephen Chase obscures the facts by dismissing the Council of Canadians as being influenced by CUPE.
Feds fumble flu response
Public health officials did a good job of preparing for H1N1 influenza, preparing months in advance for a widely anticipated fall outbreak. But there was one obstacle they did not count on: the federal government.
Communities can lower drop-out rate
Saint John's Business Community Anti-Poverty Initiative and Pathways to Education Canada have laid out what's at stake when students drop out: it costs society $20,000 per drop out, per year and traps young families in poverty.
Selling NB Power would be short-sighted
The memorandum of understanding signed last week between the government of New Brunswick and the government of Quebec for the proposed sale of NB Power bears a striking resemblance to Quebec's 1966 acquisition of the Churchill Falls hydro-electricity plant in Newfoundland.
1918 flu was baptism of fire
Experts have long predicted the inevitable arrival of another influenza pandemic as deadly as the one that killed millions around the world in the early 20th century.
Celebrate Canada's warrior tradition
This Remembrance Day season, it's a dismal lookout that an Ipsos Reid poll conducted by the Department of National Defence found more than half of respondents surveyed only supporting deployment of Canadian troops abroad in "an observation and monitoring role" rather than "a more aggressive one," and that focus groups asked to express first impressions of Canada's military largely clung to a gauzily romanticized ideal of peace signs, blue berets and helmets, soldiers helping others in humanitarian and relief missions instead of bearing arms, or perhaps with flowers protruding from their rifle barrels, rather than the present grim reality of combat and casualties in Afghanistan.
Shun politics of fear
The memorandum of understanding on power represents one of the most significant changes in a generation.
Trash talk that benefits Saint John
Concerns about how user-pay garbage collection might affect low-income residents are legitimate, but Mayor Ivan Court's call for a plebiscite is the wrong response.
City deserves training in traffic control
I fully endorse Herb Duncan's "Will the circle be unbroken?" (Oct. 31). This city seems to have no alternative treatment for any tricky intersection than to install traffic lights.
Sale may face regulatory challenges
Both New Brunswick and Quebec have clear objectives in proposing the sale of NB Power to Hydro Quebec.
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