790...Mikey I Makes The New Yorker

The New Yorker is a magazine that serves that town and Barbara Jaffe in this morning's Calgary Herald and Vancouver Sun doesn't think that being profiled in said rag benefits the next Prime Minister of Canada.

She posits that being profiled in MacLeans is a good thing, sells Michael Ignatieff at the Tim Horton's and the Legion; being profiled in The New Yorker in an article called "The Return of the Native; A public intellectual remakes himself as a public servant" is not so saleable.

Still, the next PM makes a good point in the story, as reported by Ms. Jaffe, and that is, I am paraphrasing, Canadians don't really care about the intellectual capacity of their leader, their PM, as much as they care about his trustablility and integrity.

Who would you rather have babysit your kids?

I thought so.

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512...Barack Obama

"Obama fast becoming Canada's best friend; President's economic policies could put U.S. in tailspin" reads the headline in this morning's Vancouver Sun‏.

Barbara Jaffe writes that the man who we Canadians overwhelmingly wanted to be President of the United States may inadvertently be our very best friend. Just not for the reasons we thought he would be.

It is kind of ironic too, because what is happening is that Obamanomics equals big government and big government is not attractive to big business; in Canada the Conservatives and the latter stages of the Liberal regimes of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, were parsing down our government footprint making the Great White North more attractive to investors.

Who'd have thunk it, eh?

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