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The government&#039;s 18 open house events attracted about 500 people - scant turnout for an issue that affects every anglophone family.]]></description></item><item><title>Teen mothers need access to education</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/343532</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/24ad2a917c796507b75e4dcb7ce60d5d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The divide between those who are well off and those who are not is greater in Saint John than in any other part of New Brunswick.]]></description></item><item><title>Dion's carbon tax: all pain, no gain</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/343534</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/6b8a19fb0073df224fbc797c0179bc62</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Prime Minister Stephen Harper&#039;s choice of words in describing what Liberal leader St&#233;phane Dion&#039;s "Green Shift" carbon tax will do to Canadians may have been indelicate, but it was bang-on accurate.]]></description></item><item><title>N.B. needs 'can do' attitude in higher education</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/343535</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/4982a250a8addfbd2a3f8e17a9e2d77d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Participation levels in post-secondary schooling have to increase in our society.]]></description></item><item><title>Medicare debate ruled by silence</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/343536</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/ee854aa743d1144ed33cca59ff8a6a23</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The simultaneous replacement of Ontario and Quebec&#039;s veteran health ministers earlier this month was the result of a coincidence.]]></description></item><item><title>Letters | Bureaucracy leads to needless waste</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/342421</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/b210cac071a262741761af0c8852d7c5</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If you wonder why more of your earnings go to the government, yet you receive fewer services, the following illustrates where some of that cash ends up.]]></description></item><item><title>One route to growth</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/342422</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/9113be3c2b55f5bd8b6549f96e4d5fc2</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In the past year, we&#039;ve written a number of editorials about the need to start planning for economic development provincially and regionally rather than locally.]]></description></item><item><title>N.B. can be No. 1 in translation</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/342423</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/7f507090097f23714f6bdf79cb862af3</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The hub of a new economic sector is under construction in northern New Brunswick. It&#039;s high-tech, knowledge intensive and well paid - and it has the potential to make this province a national leader.]]></description></item><item><title>What will you burn this winter?</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/342424</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/7c69ceb58a4402afbb3927bcbf24e7b3</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How are you going to heat your home this winter?]]></description></item><item><title>Charlie Black's faux pas</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/342425</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/b1baece0149f9a27446abf0c9c2c4d3b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A "faux pas" is not a lie or an error. It is a truthful statement which, for political or social reasons, the speaker should not have made.]]></description></item><item><title>'Obamamania' gives way to tight national race</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/342426</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/b7415af92fd21b1d8c7c904fe6855b13</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Read our complete story for the full contents of this article, available online.]]></description></item><item><title>Green Shift money will return as tax relief</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/341783</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/e31dc30d2897d8d8ef22532199f83b0f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Read our complete story for the full contents of this article, available online.]]></description></item><item><title>Enterprise agency is city's champion</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/341784</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/e3d46a38f651a89273212a841ab724fa</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Councillor Peter McGuire has become the champion of an important cause: boosting retail development in west Saint John. One can only admire the energy he has brought to this issue, and share his frustration at the slow pace of growth.]]></description></item><item><title>PSE: not math, but vision</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/341785</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/fd4f14db0629f3598aa4ae74282190e0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s easy to get dazzled by big numbers in the debate over post-secondary education. The $466 million pricetag suggested by university presidents and collage principals seems like an astronomical sum; in comparison, the government&#039;s $90 million investment seems slight.]]></description></item><item><title>Canada's patriotic imperative</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/341792</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/6e26b09b83b8eb47544024df37c3b3ef</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description></item><item><title>'It's over, lady!': Why the Dems' rift hasn't healed</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/341793</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/77fbe1edc8753ad10b1c17dcfe2994e7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Unity was spared the banality of unanimity.]]></description></item><item><title>Two coasts, one country</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/341794</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/5244d52eca6b7847d14eb510d1793bf4</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When I first moved from the east to western Canada 16 years ago, I was so lonely that it almost did me in. I&#039;d been a Maritimer all my life, content to venture off here and there for studies or travel but with no aspiration to live anywhere else.]]></description></item><item><title>WHSCC: safe and a success</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/340530</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/32b643ddc1e26bbab753bf677e684ae7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When government orders an independent review into whether a public service is performing as it should, the result is often bad news.]]></description></item><item><title>The business case for runway lighting</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/340531</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/5bdb0982ee2337b5c25cb01fc905c21b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s a tough time to work in the air travel industry. Across North America and around the world, airlines are scaling back flight schedules, dropping routes and grounding planes as the price of fuel approaches stratospheric levels.]]></description></item><item><title>Letters to the editor</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/340532</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/3d51f49c801f9438dabe4c93cd8c155b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Read our complete story for the full contents of this article, available online.]]></description></item><item><title>Harper's plum cabinet posts have a half-life</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/340527</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/f680fb33b63da74c953246a7e92de570</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Stephen Harper&#039;s reconfigured cabinet is a house of cards that will come tumbling down at the first breeze of an election campaign. That is particularly but not exclusively true of the two men who were appointed Wednesday to give the government a more professional face on the international scene.]]></description></item><item><title>The plays within the play</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/340528</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/98f2728d0f0564ecb7d74e01722c2177</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In a small corner on the world stage of municipal governance, there is a singular and significant play unfolding. The small corner is Saint John and the unfolding play is our city pension board&#039;s defamation suit against ex-councillor John Ferguson.]]></description></item><item><title>Oil prices: one problem, two paths</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/340529</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/ec5dc186c7338cdceed82c2e3bb5eb92</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Soaring oil prices are creating pains for consumers filling up at the pump. These pains are especially acute for those who have to commute long distances and for those on low or fixed incomes.]]></description></item><item><title>Assessing PSE plans</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/339697</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/d5cb4da22011e93e3d82e963c5fdd52c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s going to take days, probably weeks, to digest the details of the provincial government&#039;s post-secondary education strategy. At first blush, though, the Graham government&#039;s response to all the advice it has received seems both thoughtful and measured.]]></description></item><item><title>Letters | Streaming isn't a reason to eliminate EFI</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/339696</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/42f62d4aa1aaf28ea1592b766d343b62</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The myth of streaming as just cause for the euthanizing of the early French immersion program is both misleading and disingenuous.]]></description></item><item><title>College expansion must meet demand in trades</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/339698</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/6a4889630fc83830e96ec9c728472e0f</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Construction Sector Council of Canada has a bird&#039;s-eye view of Canada&#039;s labour shortage and where demand for skilled tradespeople is growing. Based on the number of construction projects scheduled for development between 2010 and 2016, the council has declared N.B a "hot spot."]]></description></item><item><title>PC Party provides voice for N.B.</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/339704</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/e5df91fbf8427ef5925b57672b3f7d79</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Last week the Liberal government adjourned the Legislative Assembly until November after introducing a motion to ignore the rules of the Legislature and limit debate on 19 of their bills to just 16 hours.]]></description></item><item><title>Green Shift is good for your wallet</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/339702</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/75c86b6f573f548156472f54c2bdc294</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After reading the commentary by Canadian Taxpayers Federation federal director John Williamson in Thursday&#039;s paper, I was surprised to read so many wrong assumptions regarding St&#233;phane Dion and the Liberal Party&#039;s Green Shift plan.]]></description></item><item><title>PM confuses bullying and leadership</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/339703</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/3854389e62b9706f063880fa1465acc6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It&#039;s no secret that Stephen Harper is a graduate of the Calgary School, a cell of economists and historians that finds peculiar wisdom in the neo-conservative philosophers Leo Strauss and Ayn Rand.]]></description></item><item><title>No summer break for government</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/339701</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/0b00866f2241556bab0574f326a7d932</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ If summer signals a slowdown for government activity, then someone forgot to send Premier Shawn Graham the memo.]]></description></item><item><title>Summertime, and the living is crazy</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/339699</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/8eeede4e43daf0abec760650dea04983</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There is nothing like a few days away from home to give you a different perspective.]]></description></item><item><title>Don't go mum on us, Barack</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/339700</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/516579eb87174732a8a4e1a34812b39e</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I was at a playground with my daughter the other day, reading The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso (good book) and watching my girl as she stood at the perimeter of children playing and studied them, exactly as I did when I was a kid, working up the nerve to plunge into the fray.]]></description></item><item><title>Put trust in debate</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/338576</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/e724be6298357654ed0542ca4a4cfb13</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some of the biggest controversies in New Brunswick hinge on questions of governance. The underlying issue is seldom addressed: where does power reside in a democratic society?]]></description></item><item><title>Letters to the editor</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/338574</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/f769c8254b0b094c8c6e7391878e9ffb</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Read our complete story for the full contents of this article, available online.]]></description></item><item><title>Building the hub of a new economy</title><link>http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/338575</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/rss/article/7c7de36ddfe7fbad58d14a2c6eee9ddd</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0300</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Universit&#233; de Moncton was created to meet the need for a comprehensive francophone university. 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