Where Food Meets Mental Illness
The past 72 hours have been the first three consecutive days in as long as my memory allows that my mind was not a cloudy, irritable, fluctuating mess; where I know with reasonable certainty how I will be feeling in just a few hours; and where I don't fear having to explain to someone why I don't … [Read More...]
The Real Cost of Foreign Investment in the Canadian Oil Sands
After reading a lot of articles about the CNOOC deal in the last day, I was going to write about the issue of the missing dialog around the what it really means for our long-term economic (and personal) wellbeing to have a flood of money into … [Read More...]
Forget the Maritime Union
It seems that I spoke too soon about the Maritime Union not being discussed by Maritimers, as fellow New Brunswicker-turned-Torontonian Josh O'Kane wrote an excellent article in the Globe today about the non-economic issues associated with a Maritime … [Read More...]
Maritime Union, Meet Atlantic Illiteracy
As I stare into the 50-year time horizon that - by most estimates - I have left on this planet, the egos and the pride surrounding the public debate on a maritime union quickly melt away. The future viability of a region that I feel an inalienable … [Read More...]
A United Maritimes Analysis: Part 1 of…Many
For the 6 months or so, I've been posing a question to anybody that I think would be mildly interested in pondering it: if all three maritime provinces existed as one today, what reason - political or economic - would justify mobilizing the leaders … [Read More...]
