What is Smart showcase Miramichi?
For perhaps the first time ever, local teachers and students are taking the lead in the development of a powerful new tool for Miramichi tourism and business generally.
Miramichi celebrated being named the world’s first Smart Showcase Community on June 1. District 16 teachers and students led the way.
Just what does that mean and why might [...]
No sex in the war zone – Good luck with that!
Canadian Brigadier-General Daniel Ménard, commander of Joint Task Force Afghanistan has been relieved of his command and faces possible court martial. He is alleged to have had a sexual relationship with a female member of military personnel.
The situation evokes a discussion of a Cadogan’s Law: There are only two things going on in the world. [...]
The Pope and Tiger Woods
The Roman Catholic Church is proving the truth of Lord Acton’s claim that power corrupts and absolutel power corrupts absolutely.
Obviously hundreds, perhaps thousands, of members of the church hierarchy were aware of claims by alleged victims of abuse. Many abused their power by what they did or did not do about those claims within the [...]
US health care best for kings
Some of the things I see or hear in the news make me wonder about some people’s thought processes.
For example, recently a Florida newscaster breathlessly announced that Florida had 28% of the national bicycle fatalities last year although it has only 6% of the national population.
Well, duh!
Florida does not have snow, is almost all flat, [...]
Tokers over the line
My late father was, and is, my hero. One of the characteristics that endeared him to me was his marvellous grasp of the obvious. One example was his oft-repeated statement that “It is better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick”.
David Foot, is the author of “Boom, Bust And Echo,” a book about [...]
Three sources of fulfillment
One of the most together women I know, Diana McAskill, regularly posts ideas with a Buddhist theme on Facebook.
A lifetime of observation from the vantage point of a community newspaper led me to conclude that the happiest people I met were the ones who were involved in doing something for others and [...]
Release you into the wild?
Recently a killer whale with a Canadian passport killed a trainer at Sea World in Florida. It seems likely the whale mistook the trainer’s ponytail for a toy. There were also signs the whale was also in turmoil so who knows?
In Florida, one sees signs near any pond, bayou or swamp that read, “Do not [...]
Why won’t Women learn?
Why do women miss so many easy opportunities to learn from male experience?
Lori Gottlieb wrote an “Atlantic” magazine article a couple of years ago titled, “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”.
According to an update she did last month, the gist of it was that women should look for the important qualities [...]
Women’s hockey reaction hilarious
From time to time, people who know us, press our buttons to watch us go nuclear. If we are lucky, we sometimes are able to learn to see it coming and have a good laugh instead of exploding.
I have decided to treat the reaction to the Canadian Women’s Hockey gold medal celebration as the funniest [...]
Graham bets everything on us
I wish there were a better solution to New Brunswick’s NB Power problem than to sell it to Hydro Quebec. I wish Quebec would sell Hydro Quebec to private sector owners. I wish there was not so much corruption in politics, bureaucracy and corporations. I wish there were some way New Brunswick could be a [...]
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