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Letters | District 10 decision sends wrong message
Despite the efforts of Fundy High School officials to hang posters and make announcements regarding Alex Sanchez' public presentation in St. Andrews ("Schools nix gay author's speech", Oct. 13), the event will not be attended by the two groups of students who most need to hear Mr. Sanchez' message.
Licence to kill?
With an average of 14 bureaucrats for every 1,000 citizens, New Brunswick is seriously overgoverned.
A legacy of inspiration
U.S. President John F. Kennedy famously said, "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
A day late, a dollar short
Speaking on Friday, President George W. Bush assured Americans and the world that the medicine was working: the recent $700 billion rescue plan for Wall Street would restore order in the markets.
Afghanistan: deal with it
Just days after the seventh anniversary of the October, 2001, invasion of Afghanistan by U.S.-led NATO troops, including our Canadian Forces, the newly-elected Canadian government has to confront this military, financial, and human fiasco.
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Weekend summit will take on poverty in N.B.
As I write this column, Canadians are at the ballot box deciding who will lead the country for the next however-many years.
Letters | We must invest in social infrastructure
Premier Graham paints a promising picture of the achievements of his government en route to self-sufficiency; the direction is sound.
Get out and vote
In Saturday's opinion pages, the Telegraph-Journal published a photograph of Canadian soldiers at a forward operating base in Afghanistan exercising their right to vote.
Don't stay the course, pick a new one
As stock markets fell precipitously last week, investment fund managers were besieged by phone calls and e-mails from investors requesting changes to their portfolios.
Keep high standards for doctors
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How John McCain's campaign turned vindictive
Some of John McCain's friends, from the good old days when he talked straight, feared that his Greek tragedy would be that he would be defeated by George Bush twice.
Opinion in Pictures
Is the Internet making us dumb?
It's hard to deny that the Internet has a lot to offer. It provides an endless stream of information and communication, some of it useful, some of it less so, but much of it entertaining.
Canada dropped ball on affordable housing
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Checklist for change
Tomorrow, voters will register their verdict on Canada's federal parties and determine the course of the next four years.
Water is the big issue many politicians ignore
You get a sense of Canada's critical water problems looking at the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefield south of Jasper, Alta.
Stéphane Dion and Lester Pearson
I may not speak English as well as Mr. Harper, but I speak the truth better."
Vote against the loopy left
Listening to the left-wing conventional wisdom, myth-repetition, and slogan-parroting emitting from the four federal party leaders who were not Stephen Harper in last week's leadership debates brought to mind something Jeremy Akerman said.
Put garbage pickup issue on back burner
This letter is in response to the letter published on Oct. 4, re: garbage pick-up. I too am annoyed at the short-sightedness and lack of thought that was put into these new regulations.
Where is N.B.'s energy policy?
For three years, the forest industry and manufacturers have been trying to convince provincial officials that the cost of energy is too high. Without a strategy to reduce the industrial cost of electricity and natural gas, some 8,000 New Brunswickers could lose their jobs.
A Fresh faced candidate takes on the Tories
Debbie McCann is a fresh new face on the political scene who is seeking election in the New Maryland-Sunbury West byelection on Nov. 3.
Change the voting system
When Doris Anderson, former and famed editor of Chatelaine and lifelong activist, came to Saint John on a stormy winter night in 2003, drawing hundreds of women to hear her speak on electoral reform, she confided something that, years later, still makes some of us think.
Vote splits create unusual results
All of this is eerily familiar to Bob Rae. A ruling party forces an early, cynical election to gain political advantage and campaigns on the warning that the opposition represents a reckless, unacceptable risk.
The best of times and the worst
We are a stalwart and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and arise in the morning and go to work. The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you put your salami sandwich in the brown bag and get on the bus.
Economic philosophy is Conservatives' big weakness
Many of us watched the election debates a week ago; the Canadian version, not the American. All I saw of the American ones was a bit of the vice-presidential debate. The most powerful nation in the world is rapidly becoming the second-most-powerful nation in the world and a failed state to boot.
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