







Original post November 18,2018.
December 2021 update.
The man about town, Roger Stone, an ally of former President Donald Trump, has become the latest individual subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating January 6 to indicate he would plead the Fifth Amendment as a way to try and get out of cooperating with the panel.















In a brief interview Conservative politician Tony Clement indicated that politics isn’t the only game in town and revealed he was in negotiations with south of the border former politician and felon Anthony Weiner to expand the junk and banana stand business into an upstanding international powerhouse operation.



The name of the business is rumoured to be Tony & Tony’s Junk featuring iconic items and sections devoted to more trash and a family friendly banana stand.
Editors note : An abbreviated form for Anthony is Tony

In related news,Netflix has refused to comment on the development of a series based on the sexting adventures of these two randy politicos who in their own way reached across the border and the aisle of liberal and conservative macho values!

















Conservative leadership brain trust determined to stoke the furnace of climate change!
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Court Painter trots out a series of Self portraits that always prove to be great stocking stuffers!



Court Painter relutantly accepted a commission to promote the book tour of a struggling little known academic writer however less reluctantly accepted the generous IOU commission fee as solice.
“I remember my few days as a struggling portrait painter way back when… these pictures are homage to that struggle of artists everywhere even though I have no idea what a writer does with all that time on their hands plus they get to sit! Anyway when I took on the commission I thought the title of the book was 12 Rules for Still Life…too late now….it’s too late baby now it’s too late.”
Court Painter is seen on this rare occasion..sitting!






Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs was hired by Irving Oil a week after he graduated from the University of New Brunswick. His resume includes 33 years as a senior executive working for one of Canada’s richest families: the Irving clan.


The company is one of New Brunswick’s largest employers, with interests in forestry, pulp and paper, transportation, oil refining and distribution, retail, media outlets and shipbuilding. Canadian Business magazine says the privately owned empire was thought to be worth $7.8 billion, making the Irving family the eighth richest in Canada.
(Source CP)

The following is a list of divisions of J.D. Irving Ltd.
(Source Wikipedia)
Irving Forest Products & Services
Irving Pulp & Paper Ltd.
Irving Paper Ltd.
Irving Tissue Co. Ltd.
Lake Utopia Paper
Irving Sawmill Division
Irving Woodlands Division
Irving Transportation Services
New Brunswick Railway Co. Ltd.
Midland Transport
Midland Courier
RST Industries
Sunbury Transport
Atlantic Towing
Kent Line
JDI Logistics
Harbour Development
Irving Shipbuilding & Fabrication Services
Saint John Shipbuilding
Halifax Shipyard
East Isle Shipyard
Shelburne Ship Repair
Woodside Industries
Fleetway Inc.
Oceanic Consulting Corporation
Irving Retail & Distribution Services
Chandler
Kent Building Supplies
Kent Homes
Universal Truck & Trailer
Shamrock Truss
Atlas Structural Systems
Cavendish Agri Services
Irving Consumer Products
Irving Tissue (Royale, Majesta, Scotties, private labels)
Irving Personal Care (diapers, training pants)
Cavendish Produce (fresh vegetables)
Cavendish Farms (frozen potato processing)
Industrial Equipment & Construction
Irving Wallboard
Gulf Operators
Irving Equipment (crane rental, heavy lifting, specialized transportation, pile driving and project management services)
CFM
Specialty Printing
Personnel Services
Protrans Personnel Services Inc.
Security Services
Industrial Security Limited
Professional Sports
The Daily Gleaner (Fredericton NB)
The Tribune (Campbellton NB
La Voix du Restigouche (Campbellton NB)
The Bugle-Observer (Woodstock NB)
Le Journal Madawaska (Edmundston NB)
L'Étoile (various editions)
Édition provinciale
Édition La Cataracte (Grand Falls NB)
Édition Chaleur (Bathurst NB)
Édition Dieppe (Dieppe NB)
Édition Kent (Bouctouche NB)
Édition Péninsule (Shippagan NB)
Édition République (Edmundston NB)
Édition Restigouche (Campbellton NB)
Édition Shédiac (Shediac NB)
Kings County Record (Sussex NB)
Miramichi Leader (Miramichi NB)
The Northern Light (Bathurst NB)
Here (Saint John NB, Moncton NB, Fredericton NB)
Money Saver (St. Stephen NB)
James C Irving is also Chair of the Board of Governors of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery