“This is the last /
Fake spring evening /
That you’ll have to spend …”
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“This is the last /
Fake spring evening /
That you’ll have to spend …”
“Fake Spring Evening” is one of my favourite Don Henley songs.
Former Miramichi Leader editor (and co-author of two books on Allan Legere) Rick MacLean shows us a letter Legere, using a pseudonym, sent to Rick’s wife while he was awaiting trial.
Miramichi Deputy Police Chief Randy Hansen started on the force the same month Legere escaped from jail and began killing again. His comment on Legere’s death: “Burn in hell.”
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Coming in the Harbour, Saint John, N.B.
Lucius O'Brien
1896
🚨BREAKING: Carney calls byelections in two Toronto ridings and Terrebonne. Voters will head to the polls on April 13.
Liberals will need to win all three races to get a thin majority government. #cdnpoli #canpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Very timely to have finished this yesterday. Five stars; recommended.
I mean — the very last paragraph in the book:
I can't get over this, from @jonathankarl.bsky.social. Trump is working the phones to journalists, talking about his war as a "performance."
Can you specifiy: who was asked about Irving without invoking the name, who deflected, and who let who get away with it?
Our podcast episode on New Brunswick’s $1.3 billion problem: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Green Moose
Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq
n.d.
NEW Poll: Fewer than half of Canadians believe the end of CUSMA would be bad for Canada.
Only 45% say it would be bad. A majority think it would make no difference or even be good.
That’s a striking perception gap compared to business and policy elites.
Details: abacusdata.ca/fewer-than-...
Iranians in Shiraz, Isfahan and Yazd, April-May 2000.
Remembering the frequent comments from a couple of years back that there was no point in the US/Canada/Australia etc doing anything to decarbonise because what about China.
Well, indeed, what about China?
Schoolgirls in Persepolis and Isfahan, Iran, in Spring 2000.
You know how far things have gone when the top front-page story in the New York Times is the sort of headline you would have seen in Counterpunch or The Nation 25 years ago. When times get weird, yesterday’s hyperbole becomes today’s starched-collar analysis piece
Analysis: How N.B.’s online premier ‘throws out’ government proposals
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Here's the list of ideas the province put in front of university and college presidents & CEOs last week for budget cuts. Story coming soon.
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Major news for Canada: the USMCA exemptions will continue under the new tariff regime
*GREER SAYS IEEPA EXEMPTIONS WILL BE EXTENDED UNDER SECTION 122
Maybe this is covered, but the origins of regional political tensions over resources (i.e. some of what Mary Janigan covers) + how that influences political identity / affiliation? www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/208460...
From Bloomberg's live blog: Trump's late night tariff threats will be much more difficult to actually carry out now
(Bloomberg) -- The US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, undercutting his signature economic policy and delivering his biggest legal defeat since he returned to the White House.
Why the New Brunswick legislature removed two colonial-era portraits: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
BRONZE FOR CANADA 🇨🇦
Courtney Sarault, Kim Boutin, Florence Brunelle and Danae Blais skate relay bronze.
It’s a historic medal for Sarault, as she becomes the first woman from Canada to win four short track medals at a single Olympics.
New Brunswick government deficit now projected at $1.3 billion this fiscal year.
