Here we go again. The executive director for the Association of Atlantic Universities wrote a guest commentary in the Telegraph-Journal this week pleading with government “to make post-secondary education the top public policy priority”. He continues: a major funding commitment…
Continue ReadingLepreau – an economic decision
I have taken a lot of heat over my stand on the closure of the Lepreau nuclear power generating facility so I’ll clarify my position once more. I believe that governments should not be the in the business of subsidizing…
Continue ReadingBack from vacation
I am just getting back from a ten day vacation and a, what turned out to be, exhaustive move downtown in Moncton. If I had Internet access this week, here are some of the stories I most likely would have…
Continue ReadingAIP leads to FDI?
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) just launched the Atlantic Investment Partnership – The Second Wave, a new five-year … $708-million initiative to support economic development throughout Atlantic Canada. There is some wording here about attracting foreign investment but I…
Continue ReadingHogan the magician
Following from my previous blog, I guess that Al Hogan at the Times & Transcript has a different view on the labour market from Statistics Canada. Al’s headline reads N.B. job picture stable while Statistics Canada, the folks who prepare…
Continue ReadingThe monthly Prosperity Plan update
Every month, we get our truest update on the status of the Prosperity Plan (although there were no employment growth targets in the plan per se). Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey for June 2005 provides us with the following insight…
Continue ReadingSpeck versus plank
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye, with never a thought for the great plank in your own? Or how can you say to your brother, “let me take the speck out of your…
Continue ReadingBegin the journey
You have heard the old Chinese saying “A long journey starts with the first step”. This past weekend, I took this literally. My brother and I took our daughters (8 and 9) to climb Mount Katahdin in Maine. Given the…
Continue ReadingWhat did I tell you – ‘Shawnisms’
First Lisa Hrabluk in the Telegraph-Journal and now just a couple of days later Kathy Kaufield writes an entire article in the paper on the ‘village idiot’ – Shawn Graham. Now, remember from my previous blog on this that I…
Continue ReadingImmigration – not a panacea
I fully applaud John Thompson of Enterprise Greater Moncton efforts to attract more immigrants to our community. For too long there has been almost no action on this. In fact, I periodically have heard senior community leaders resist immigration as…
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