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It’s the Economy, Stupid! moves to Substack

Posted on December 15, 2023 by David Campbell

Hi, if you are looking for my current online blog, I have moved it to Substack.  You can find it here.  All of my archives going back to 2004 are located on this site. Feel free to scroll or do…

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Updating the It’s The Economy, Stupid archive

Posted on July 29, 2022 by David Campbell

As most of you know I have moved my writing from this platform to Substack. You can sign up to my newsletter or peruse the archives here https://david476.substack.com/ But I will be using this space to point to all the…

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Latest job vacancy data points to interesting trends across NB

Posted on October 18, 2021 by David Campbell

Statistics Canada didn’t release data from the Job Vacancy survey for Q2 and Q3 2020 during the height of the pandemic last year but the Q4 data showed a significant spike in job vacancies across New Brunswick. In other words…

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Volunteering: The secret sauce for inclusive communities?

Posted on October 18, 2021 by David Campbell

As of late last week, I am now the chair of the board of the United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick, the backbone organization working with dozens of partner organizations to address social challenges in the region.…

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Freddy Beach all growed up and now sitting at the big kids table

Posted on October 18, 2021 by David Campbell

I meant to write about this before but it slipped my mind. For those of you that do not know, Fredericton is becoming a CMA (Census Metropolitan Area) as of the 2021 Census. This is kind of a big deal…

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Bad rap: Musings on government directed culture

Posted on October 18, 2021 by David Campbell

I’ve always had this nagging feeling that government should do more to promote a positive image of places like New Brunswick. It just seems so capricious to leave it to the media or even social media. In both of those…

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When it comes to the costs of addressing our climate change commitments, give it to the people straight

Posted on October 18, 2021 by David Campbell

I have concluded that politicians these days would rather gin up the benefits of a policy decision and ignore the costs, rather than tell it to people straight. When it comes to addressing our climate change commitments, people need to…

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Don’t go home. Stick around and help build a stronger province.

Posted on October 18, 2021 by David Campbell

My wife and I were headed out to Grande-Digue yesterday to take in Ballet-by-the-Ocean and impressive innovation during Covid-19 from the Atlantic Ballet of Canada. At a stop light my wife pointed out to me that on the driver’s door…

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New Brunswick needs growth industries

Posted on October 18, 2021 by David Campbell

We have been spending a lot of time in the past few years talking about how we boost the talent pipeline as a driver of economic development. We can’t forget, however; that we actually need growth industries if we want…

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Where are the Mad Men (and Mad Women)?

Posted on October 18, 2021 by David Campbell

On an annual basis I make my lament for the advertising and PR business in New Brunswick. Of course, I shouldn’t use the term mad men at all as 58% of all workers in the industry nation wide are women.…

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