Rick MacLean
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 27, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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RICK MacLEAN: Like farmers, we just hope for better days (opens the original)
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Somehow they’re invisible. No mean act given they’re about 80 feet long, and when lugging a full load they can weigh about 80,000 pounds, or more. Yet it took the shutdown of a major bridge in my hometown for repairs that were at least a decade overdue for me to notice. Turns out, only when tractor-trailers are forced off the highway and onto a city street do they become impossible to ignore. They’re huge. They’re loud. And they’re slow. Go ahead, try to get one of those giant suckers rolling qu
RICK MacLEAN: P.E.I. has hills, lots of hills, who knew? (opens the original)
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You may recall I talked about my plan to join a group trying the two-day, 240-and-a-bit-kilometre cycling event called a fondo on the Island a couple of weeks ago. The organization was top notch. The weather wonderful. Ditto the post ride drinks – milk, I’m talking chocolate milk, honest, lots of chocolate milk, the drink of champions, and just-turned-69-year-old-cyclists. “Would you like one of these?” asked the young woman with the encouraging smile at the finish of the second day’s 152-kilome
RICK MACLEAN: This wasn't written by AI (opens the original)
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It should have been obvious. Somehow, it wasn’t. To him. It was pretty obvious to anyone listening with more than half an ear to what he was saying. It was supposed to be a half-hour speech on … something. It didn’t take long to become hard to tell what, exactly. AI, apparently. Artificial intelligence. Oh, the irony. “Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points.” “Here’s a more developed and flowing version of
RICK MacLEAN: Winning a byelection is ‘easy.’ Winning a general … (opens the original)
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The Island’s provincial Liberals got a brutal lesson in politics Monday. If you missed it – not much chance on P.E.I. where politics is second only to hockey in terms of sports people love to talk about – Tayte Willows of the Green party won Cornwall-Meadowbank in breeze. The score (why not keep the hockey analogy going for another minute) was 1,184 to 995 for Liberal Leader Robert Mitchell. He promptly resigned. That’s a serious ouch. Conservative Caley McDonald was third with 823 votes. The To
RICK MacLEAN: Sure, social media is addictive. That’s by design (opens the original)
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Consider Tim Kendall. If anyone should have known better, it was him. He was, after all, so good at his job helping social media giant Facebook make money he spent years making it happen. And if you haven’t looked at the estimated value of Facebook recently, don’t. It’s depressing. OK, here it is. Now part of Meta – which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp – Facebook is pulling in about $135 billion U.S. a year and it’s worth an estimated $1.5 trillion. That’s $1,500 billion. So it can hire good p
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