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I’m being diplomatic when I write that I don’t like other things. The truth is that I hate other things. They just get in the way! What are other things? That’s easy: they’re all the things you have to do when what you really want to do is something else. They’re things like your job, [...]
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I don’t mind saying I’m confused when CBC headlines a story ‘NB Power deal cancelled.’ They say in their opening paragraph, “The proposed deal to sell NB Power’s generation assets to Hydro-Québec fell apart over Quebec’s concerns about unanticipated costs, according to the two provincial premiers.” What is confusing is that the Globe and Mail [...]
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Since moving to New Brunswick (NB) about three years ago, the proposed NB Power/Hydro-Quebec deal is the first time I’ve seen some genuine public interest in what this province is about and where it is going. In that sense, regardless of the deal’s merits or whether it goes through or not, it has been a [...]
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In New Brunswick, there are several battles going on: the one between the power deal with Quebec and the H1N1 vaccine for top news story. Then there’s the one within that power deal between the those for and those against. There are a lot of kneejerk responses to the power deal, some of which are [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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What we see dictates how we see it
by Bill on March 22, 2010
How we interpret the world is affected by our perspective. Sport provides numerous examples. Is a play legal or illegal? The referee makes a call. Video replay is examined. Why? Simply because the referee’s perspective is very specific. He or she was in a particular place in time and space and made their call based [...]
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