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What a year this has been!
I started writing this on December 29th but researching the links has taken some time, in fact much longer than I thought to find all the links. I have defiantly accomplished a lot this year, looking back this has been the best year in a while. Of the things that stand out as my holy…
It’s the most wonderful season of the year…
Election Season! In under 2 months, every municipal, education, and health council in this province will be new. But this is my favourite part is waiting for everyone to announce and I need to pick the people who I will vote for. I need to vote for and choose a Mayor of Saint John, 2…
Another Victom of the Curse.
Once again another aspiring politician was not elected because I voted for them. Here is the list so far: 2004 Federal Election Bob McVicar (Defeated) 2004 Conservative Leadership Belinda Stonich (Defeated) PC/Alliance Merger Voted Against (defeated) 2003 Federal PC Party Leadership Jim Prentice (Defeated) 2004 Municipal Election Myself (Defeated) 2003 Provincial Election Mel Vincent Jr….
“Immoral but not Illegal”
Apparently my site traffic has dropped a fair bit in the last few months. This past week has been one of the craziest news weeks that I can remember in quite some time. Four elections, a new premier, a shady closed meeting of the public accounts committee in Ottawa. The Europe economy teetering beyond hope….
Saint Johners I thought you were smart!
I still think that most of you don’t have a brain in your head sometimes. But, we will see. Come the next election I hope that there will be enough good candidate running in every ward so that we don’t end up like Miramichi. Doesn’t anyone remember why in 1980 the ward 198 years of…
Making a TV Show
Note: This article was originally written for Journalism 2023 Journalistic Writing in November 2002. The 50th Annual Saint John Santa Claus Parade comes around for another year. This was a difficult production for producer Don Ferguson to organize volunteers. In addition, the float list was only available late on Friday afternoon. Three hours before the…
