<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Opinion</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com</link><description>FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY</description><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:53:02 -0400</lastBuildDate><copyright>Copyright: (C) CanadaEast.com http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/onsite.php?page=copyright</copyright><docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs><ttl>2880</ttl><image><url>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com</url><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com</link></image><item><title>Waiting outside for shots was shameful</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/849944</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/9cb6b0302020d6844d627a8ad4c9cb98</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I fully understand that socialized medicine means long lines and long wait times. It is something that we, as Canadians, have come to expect.]]></description></item><item><title>Love's all you need to adopt a child</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/849945</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/000f3dd1e0785fee2eb8a5cd8cf1c812</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Many advantages in life can be acquired. But what of the first resource a helpless child must depend upon?]]></description></item><item><title>AECL's debts are a federal matter</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/849946</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/a2f1e0c42f43138213ba25088f298b3b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The federal government&#039;s position on Atomic Energy of Canada Limited grows more tenuous by the day. New Brunswick taxpayers can see Ottawa backing the Crown utility&#039;s financial obligations with cold, hard cash - so why won&#039;t officials cover the full cost of AECL&#039;s delays in New Brunswick?]]></description></item><item><title>Savings on property taxes are coming soon</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/849950</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/f446f50989cfc274da579948c60c8f90</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It will soon be that time of year again when the provincial government provides cities, towns and villages with their tax base information, which they will in turn use to set their tax rates.]]></description></item><item><title>Danny Williams: all elbows</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/849951</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/fa7eff39ade2fe1eb1804a4784ecb420</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ So Premier Danny Williams is lecturing New Brunswickers about giving away their hydro asset.]]></description></item><item><title>Public wants answers, not just attitude</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/849952</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/c71045067cb6baa75e9b3dce0f96ac22</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The volume has been turned up to 11 by the opposition Tories on the proposed deal between Quebec and New Brunswick for the sale of NB Power.]]></description></item><item><title>Life is unfair; we all know this</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/849947</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/cf3a92588d297b4825c383776671bbf2</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It costs $722 to fly from St. Paul/Minneapolis to Bismarck, N.D., and you can fly from St. Paul/Minneapolis to Paris for $754.]]></description></item><item><title>Feeling the electric shock</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/849948</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/4fd00895bfd9df944f4d9d0af8160693</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The provincial government was elected with the energy axis as one of its three core campaign projects (along with education and the economy). It then led the province by focusing on the concept of self-sufficiency. ]]></description></item><item><title>N.B.'s lost opportunity</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/849949</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/9fafdda5cf1c4887aba4d183a805e328</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last week, the government&#039;s deal with Hydro-Qu&#233;bec had some believers - aside from the Liberal caucus and Jean Charest, of course. But this week, even those who initially thought it might be a positive move have changed their tune. ]]></description></item><item><title>Our first allegiance should be to Canada</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/848593</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/d096af25cf431ad31a1303c888a9cd91</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It disturbed me to read that some 40 francophone schools want to opt out of singing the Canadian anthem daily. It&#039;s commendable the schools&#039; objective is to instill pride in the students&#039; language and heritage, but it shouldn&#039;t eclipse national pride.]]></description></item><item><title>A byword for 'boondoggle'</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/848594</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/70616cf195779356ec8bf564f6038209</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Wednesday, MPs took the first significant step toward repealing the national long-gun registry. In 1995, the registry was expected to cost $119 million. ]]></description></item><item><title>Medical programs offer hope for the future</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/848595</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/6a41693fb38183d672df560bac459747</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ On Wednesday, Premier Shawn Graham announced more than $2 million in construction contracts at UNB&#039;s Saint John campus. ]]></description></item><item><title>Strike a deal for Quebec child care, too</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/848590</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/6666d5e5c162299db932edbd05c9ddfe</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There&#039;s a rumour I&#039;m starting - you can help spread it - that New Brunswick&#039;s next sale to Quebec will be our child care centers.]]></description></item><item><title>Bill 101 to face foe from within</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/848591</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/441a2fd28e663a5d2ae41142ebcdac65</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A decade ago, former Liberal leader St&#233;phane Dion startled many of his colleagues when he described Quebec&#039;s Bill 101 as a "great Canadian law." ]]></description></item><item><title>Power play's a losing gambit</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/848592</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/575417ff6e3751b77c6f828165f71c89</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I remember exactly where I was when the New Brunswick Conservatives lost the 2006 provincial election. I was in Moncton and it was Election Night 2003.]]></description></item><item><title>Council works to defend public interest</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/847173</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/99cfadeb8c84b912dcae6b60c1e93000</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Deputy Mayor Stephen Chase obscures the facts by dismissing the Council of Canadians as being influenced by CUPE.]]></description></item><item><title>Feds fumble flu response</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/847174</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1e8e41e4dc98bc474c41754002b2ac6a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Public health officials did a good job of preparing for H1N1 influenza, preparing months in advance for a widely anticipated fall outbreak. But there was one obstacle they did not count on: the federal government.]]></description></item><item><title>Communities can lower drop-out rate</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/847175</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/01a3756b650d1051bcafcc2a93a7d61d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Saint John&#039;s Business Community Anti-Poverty Initiative and Pathways to Education Canada have laid out what&#039;s at stake when students drop out: it costs society $20,000 per drop out, per year and traps young families in poverty.]]></description></item><item><title>Selling NB Power would be short-sighted</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/847170</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/79d024991f3c6b8ae1f02963cbf77797</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The memorandum of understanding signed last week between the government of New Brunswick and the government of Quebec for the proposed sale of NB Power bears a striking resemblance to Quebec&#039;s 1966 acquisition of the Churchill Falls hydro-electricity plant in Newfoundland.]]></description></item><item><title>1918 flu was baptism of fire</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/847171</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/46fdb190d964b15c05cce0498c122060</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Experts have long predicted the inevitable arrival of another influenza pandemic as deadly as the one that killed millions around the world in the early 20th century. ]]></description></item><item><title>Celebrate Canada's warrior tradition</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/847172</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/0d443a66f46ba0dee8579af6a0e843dc</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ This Remembrance Day season, it&#039;s a dismal lookout that an Ipsos Reid poll conducted by the Department of National Defence found more than half of respondents surveyed only supporting deployment of Canadian troops abroad in "an observation and monitoring role" rather than "a more aggressive one," and that focus groups asked to express first impressions of Canada&#039;s military largely clung to a gauzily romanticized ideal of peace signs, blue berets and helmets, soldiers helping others in humanitarian and relief missions instead of bearing arms, or perhaps with flowers protruding from their rifle barrels, rather than the present grim reality of combat and casualties in Afghanistan.]]></description></item><item><title>Shun politics of fear</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/846023</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/d0f3506cb9ae97e992cff91846cdde28</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The memorandum of understanding on power represents one of the most significant changes in a generation. ]]></description></item><item><title>Trash talk that benefits Saint John</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/846024</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/c3e65167d3dee5efde3da329f772092b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Concerns about how user-pay garbage collection might affect low-income residents are legitimate, but Mayor Ivan Court&#039;s call for a plebiscite is the wrong response.]]></description></item><item><title>City deserves training in traffic control</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/846025</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/951dfacc4fb0b0277fa3b92b3f8a8c33</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I fully endorse Herb Duncan&#039;s "Will the circle be unbroken?" (Oct. 31). This city seems to have no alternative treatment for any tricky intersection than to install traffic lights.]]></description></item><item><title>Sale may face regulatory challenges</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/846020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/65057f74d92ddd9f5afc68bf08f3b0b4</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Both New Brunswick and Quebec have clear objectives in proposing the sale of NB Power to Hydro Quebec.]]></description></item><item><title>Pressure mounts to shift off fossil fuels</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/846021</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/8b33d8f743dbf088a7fbb9ffd57c05ba</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The news is bad, and it&#039;s coming in fast. Turn tens of thousands of scientists loose on a problem for two decades, and the results will seem pathetic for the first few years, because it takes time to gather the data - even to build the equipment with which you gather the data.]]></description></item><item><title>Unpacking the Power proposal</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/846022</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/7dba92b241197f22f509e85284e552eb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In considering the merits of any government policy, it&#039;s always helpful to try to unpack the motivation behind the actual policy. In the case of the most significant public policy proposal in recent history, the proposed sale of most of NB Power to Hydro-Qu&#233;bec, let me posit the following scenario:]]></description></item><item><title>Consult architects before building plaza</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/844636</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/f460ef1b0330c0ca91e5a5fc441ccdad</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The major problem of Peel Plaza is, by admission, someone&#039;s idea.]]></description></item><item><title>Budget must back priorities</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/844637</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/c03a3d80f8e2989f6d07f7a776913232</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Saint John councillors face a range of budget complications this year, from the financial impact of the recession to changes in the value of the property tax municipalities can expect to receive. ]]></description></item><item><title>Cut Peel Plaza to save tax rate</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/844641</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/8ebed9c65b4cf740654788f11c058256</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If councillors need any direction on where they can scale back unnecessary expenses to invest more public priorities, they need only look at the latest polling results on the proposed police headquarters at Peel Plaza.]]></description></item><item><title>Power agreement has both sides smiling</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/844638</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/519aa663f3984276051ddadaf51f348f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Arriving at Windsor Station Thursday night, for a gala marking his 25 years in politics, Jean Charest was in a buoyant mood.]]></description></item><item><title>It's good news, not bad</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/844639</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/87054e9494f2db231f06ec6a91a22769</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The proposed deal between NB Power and Hydro-Qu&#233;bec brightens New Brunswick&#039;s future.]]></description></item><item><title>Debate must focus on ownership</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/844640</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/effe4218779e67a6e8bbe7d3e5f32818</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The provincial government&#039;s unprecedented proposal on NB Power has given us a lot to digest in just a few days. The idea that NB Power could be sold to Hydro-Qu&#233;bec went off like a bomb in the province last week. ]]></description></item><item><title>Letters to the editor: Students have a right to basic facilities</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/843500</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/224e97963c16111d5a4098d9865049f9</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I feel I would be remiss if I don&#039;t highlight - again - the plight of Rothesay High School. The school was built originally as a junior high school and has never received the enhancements promised by the school board at the time it became a high school.]]></description></item><item><title>Where's the action on water treatment?</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/843501</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/ca5066dfec3147febee9bb019f7b58b0</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Improving municipal drinking water is Saint John&#039;s top budgetary priority. Looking at recent poll results, one can see why: just one per cent of area residents contacted in the survey rated the city&#039;s performance on water treatment as "excellent."]]></description></item><item><title>An appeal to reason</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/843502</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/31be76b7ce31b51d5cafcc461906cf16</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ New Brunswickers have five months to debate the proposed deal to sell NB Power to Hydro-Qu&#233;bec. It should be more than enough time, provided people ground the discussion in facts and logical arguments, rather than emotion.]]></description></item><item><title>Let's look at the facts</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/843503</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1658b7ddea71ccb31314d09541e7a06f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The announcement of the tentative agreement to sell NB Power is a game changer on the Atlantic Canada political scene, with severe reverberations hitting Newfoundland and to a lesser degree, Nova Scotia. Only Quebec, the originator of the storm, seems immune. Of course, Quebec is 10 times larger than New Brunswick, so the $4.75 billion proposed purchase of NB Power is relatively small potatoes compared to Hydro-Qu&#233;bec&#039;s debt of $35 billion.]]></description></item><item><title>Next stop: the age of dementia</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/843504</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/07a60e7228072842f2b0aa49c1e9e811</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Dementias are upon us. The greying of our society is resulting in an increase of those with various dementias because the most significant cause of the condition is growing older. Presently, there are about half a million people in Canada with dementia, and that number is due to increase.]]></description></item><item><title>Take power plan to the people</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/842168</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/9a980dc6fc8b9c1966973f61ea254eb7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This deal is outrageous. What the government is on the verge of giving up compared to what it feels it is getting should be a concern to every New Brunswicker.]]></description></item><item><title>Afghanistan: when the tough should get going</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/842169</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/519ffaeb8a82d434e90a1ceed9a3470d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The former Marine officer Matthew Hoh, who resigned his Foreign Service post in Afghanistan because he feels the war is pointless and not worth dying for, deserves all the attention he&#039;s gotten and more. ]]></description></item><item><title>The bottom line? We all save</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/842170</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/b9cf66d743d7a83fadbd60f853be33b8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ This is about seizing an opportunity that presents itself.]]></description></item><item><title>Stand up for your province</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/842165</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/24e1253d56f43f20d421bb314950d68b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Despite the government&#039;s carefully orchestrated publicity stunt held this past Thursday and the premier&#039;s best sales job, the people of the New Brunswick are feeling like victims. And why? Because we are. ]]></description></item><item><title>Remember the Jervis Bay</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/842166</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/b277516668ab0cf91876377739c2bb10</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The heroic action of the Jervis Bay armed merchantman, refurbished in the port of Saint John, will be remembered at the Jervis Bay Memorial Park in Saint John this Sunday, Nov. 1, at 2 p.m.]]></description></item><item><title>Get active, get organized and get connected</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/842167</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/17cd10beb6266cc33c5c147b81074160</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We often hear about the demobilization of citizens due to disillusionment with the democratic process. Both political parties and community-based organizations find it difficult to recruit new members.]]></description></item><item><title>Councillors hold the line</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/842160</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/b8998d891a899063d7f7ef76d92201da</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When Saint John council made a public commitment to keep the tax rate down, residents knew it would be put to the test. This past week, it was - and councillors held their ground.]]></description></item></channel></rss>
