• Blankets, babies and lunchtime

  February 20, 2012 - 9 h 08

  Facebook has served its purpose. While debating what to fill this editorial space with this week, we threw out a random thought to our Facebook friends.

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• Rocking the boat

  February 13, 2012 - 9 h 44

  You don’t need a physics degree to understand what happens when you put too much weight on one side of a boat.

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• Gold-plated pensions

  February 6, 2012 - 9 h 27

  When the economy started taking a nose dive in 2008, Canada appeared to be weathering the storm well. Prime Minister Stephen Harper had no problem chiding other countries on the world stage for their lax banking regulations.

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• Ecstatic over a drug bust

  January 30, 2012 - 9 h 38

  On Thursday morning, news broke that Port aux Basques RCMP had seized a large quantity of marijuana and ecstasy from a house in Port aux Basques.

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• Fare's fair?

  January 23, 2012 - 9 h 03

  The cost of everything is going up; it’s just a fact of life.

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• Legislating what we took for granted

  January 16, 2012 - 9 h 51

  Even if you have a job you absolutely love, there are probably aspects of that job you don’t enjoy.

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• Fleeting fairness

  January 9, 2012 - 9 h 20

  By the time the average Canadian worker headed home for lunch last Tuesday, the average CEO in this country had collected in salary what it will take that average Joe the rest of the year to make.

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• Transparency is the answer

  January 3, 2012 - 9 h 24

  There was a bit of a stink in the provincial media just before Christmas with word that a popular restaurant in St. John’s had been closed due to unsanitary conditions in the kitchen.

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• Permission to come aboard?

  December 12, 2011 - 10 h 16

  Civil liberties, and civil rights, are pretty important in a democratic society.

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• Fighting for the little guy

  December 5, 2011 - 9 h 30

  Our province’s citizens’ representative, Barry Fleming, has submitted his annual report to the provincial House of Assembly.

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