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Street Smarts
Small talk and the flavours of the neighbourhood
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Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Tiptoeing Through The Rezoning
Saint John's piecemeal approach to industrial development is a weird way to build a provincial economy
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Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
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Atlantic Canada's Federal Cabinet Sextet Needs to Set the Pace and Tone
New Brunswick's Dominic LeBlanc, the One Canadian Economy Minister, and ACOA Minister Sean Fraser of Nova Scotia led the team charged with getting the…
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Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Nightshade, Musk & Cutting Off the Vines of Misinformation that Block the Light
Early spring pruning has me thinking about how our digital landscape and the threats to Canadian values that lie within
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Gina Miller
Don't Be A D.I.C.K.
And Other Actions for Keeping the Peace in our Mad, Mad World
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Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
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Wake up. Do not hit snooze
Now is not the time to lean up against a tree and pull a Rip Van Winkle
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Gina Miller
When did George Bailey become the bad guy?
Compassion isn't the antithesis to capitalism; in communities across Canada it is the defining feature - and it'll help us fend off the forces that seek…
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Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Where reach exceeds the map
Small places are not backdrops; they shape change. Leaving Hong Kong’s rhythm to return to New Brunswick wasn’t just a move – it was a reminder that…
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Gina Miller
We've Got to Play our Game, Canada
Don't let the big guns down south intimidate you; we've got some moves we can make to shift momentum our way
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Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
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4:49
Send the Journalists Home
To understand what's happening in the world today, leave the halls of power and get back to street level
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Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
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