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24-27 August 2007 – Grand Manan, NB
Friday, 24 August 2007, 9:18 am, Seal Cove, Grand Manan, NB Away from the house just after 9:30 a.m., and at the ferry dock in Blacks Harbour by 10:30. Fine crossing, with two sightings of whales; although the ferry was an … Continue reading
Posted in 05 Years Ago, New Brunswick
Tagged Blacks Harbour New Brunswick, Canada, Chief administrative officer, Grand Harbour, Grand Manan, Grand Manan ferry, Grand Manan Island, Grand Manan NB, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Mortal Dreams of the Demigod, New Brunswick, outdoors, Seal Cove, Travel
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Cut Knife, Saskatchewan
Cut Knife, SK – A very attractive town of 600 residents, with an exceptional entrance-boulevard lined with mature trees. In the immediate distance, magnificent fields of canola in bloom. Its name derives from the nearby successful battle by Chief Poundmaker … Continue reading
Destinations – 52 Most Recent
Evansburg, AB. Edson, AB. Hinton, AB. Jasper, AB. Entwistle, AB. Wetaskiwin, AB. Rimbey, AB. Bentley, AB. Eckville, AB. Rocky Mountain House, AB. Drayton Valley, AB. Tomahawk, AB. Wabamum, AB. Lamont, AB. See the CulturalRites article here. Edmonton, AB. The … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Canada, Places
Tagged Alberta, Canada, Edmonton, Hay Lakes AB, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Lamont AB, New Sarepta AB, Redwater AB, Rollyview AB, Travel
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Lamont, Alberta
Lamont is an entirely pleasant small town 37 kilometres east of Edmonton, in Lamont County. It is named after John Henderson Lamont, a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1927 to 1936, a lawyer’s reward after a … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Canada
Tagged Al Boomer Adair, Alberta, Alberta Industrial Heartland, Athabasca Alberta, Athabasca University, Canada, Conrad Schinkinger, Edmonton, Elk Island National Park, Frank Appleby, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, John Henderson Lamont, Lamont AB, Lamont County, Politics, St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, Supreme Court of Canada, Tony Schinkinger, Travel
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Government: Who Does What?
Civil Thoughts Series, No. 3 The Saint Croix Courier (St. Stephen, NB), 143/19, C-5, 12 February 2008 . When it comes to their government, citizens are sometimes unsure who is responsible for what. An essential difference is between what a … Continue reading
Posted in New Brunswick, Public Service
Tagged Accountability, Canada, Chief administrative officer, Citizenship, Council–manager government, Democracy, Direct democracy, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, liberal democracy, Local government, New Brunswick, Policy, Pools, Public service, Public works, representative government, Roads, Saint Croix Courier, Social capital, St. Stephen New Brunswick, Water transmission
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Powers of Local Government & their Limitations
Civil Thoughts Series, No. 2 The Saint Croix Courier (St. Stephen, NB), 143/14, B-8, 8 January 2008 We live in a province that uses legislation to regulate its municipalities that was enacted in 1966, over forty years ago. That … Continue reading
Posted in New Brunswick, Public Service
Tagged Campobello Island, Canada, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Chief administrative officer, Constitution Act of Canada, Cultural Revolution, Franklin Roosevelt, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Henry Kissinger, Indira Gandhi, Leonid Brezhnev, Local government, Lyndon Johnson, Mao Tse-tung, Municipalities Act of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Politics, Public service, Richard Nixon, St. Stephen New Brunswick, Viet Nam, Zhou Enlai
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Population Growth and Municipal Demographics
Civil Thoughts Series, No. 4 The Saint Croix Courier (St. Stephen, NB), 143/20, B-11, 19 February 2008 There’s been a lot of discussion about how to increase the population of New Brunswick. Immigration is one of the keys. Canada’s ethno-cultural profile shows a … Continue reading
