Last Friday, Premier Lord talked to the Telegraph Journal editorial board about electricity rate increases. Now, normally I think the TJ has a better reporting style than the TT but on this one I had to laugh. Here’s a quote:…
Continue ReadingThe curse of the young Premier
After hearing that 34 year old Rodney MacDonald will be the new Premier of Nova Scotia, my mind wandered back to a classic Al Hogan ‘We Say’ where he praised New Brunswick for electing a string of young, under 40…
Continue ReadingThe Feds are Comin’! – nope
Exactly a year ago (Feb 14), I wrote a blog about the Federal government’s plans to expand its own operations outside of Ottawa. This was proposed as a way to ‘spread around’ government work to areas of the country that…
Continue ReadingHousing prices in SoCal are outrageous
I have spent this week roaming around San Diego. Great town. 1.1 million people. About 70 km from tip to tip (in comparative terms – the City of Moncton would have to include both Shediac and Salisbury to be as…
Continue ReadingMonthly Labour Market Update
On the surface, January was a good month for New Brunswick’s labour market. In fact, we led the country with a 1% increase in the amount of total employment in the province. I suspect you will read all the glowing…
Continue ReadingVolpe’s on the road again
Finance Minister Jeannot Volpé is back on the road to conduct pre-budget consultations in New Brunswick. Once again, the pre-budget consultation document is a marketing piece. They want to ‘consult’ New Brunswickers but they public a ‘consultation document’ that doesn’t…
Continue ReadingManitoba & New Brunswick – partners in decline
Steve Demmings, one of the architects of the Manitoba call centre initiative in the early 1990s is now lashing out at the Manitoba government for its lack of vision on economic development. He talks about Nova Scotia’s success in great…
Continue ReadingCan’t help but sigh
I just read Premier Lord’s State of the Province address and I just get more cynical after reading this crap than ever before. Here’s the goals: Lord then set out the five ambitious goals to be achieved in the next…
Continue ReadingAnd a child shall lead them….
A commentary from the Times & Transcript: Written by Ellen Creighton of Fredericton -a member of the New Brunswick Student Alliance and UNB’s Student Union executives, and is a Bachelor of Laws candidate (2006). It’s difficult to deny that we…
Continue ReadingDispatches from the road: San Diego (Quirky California)
Only in California, eh? Where else can you buy a personal ‘paternity’ test for $345 that tells you in a week whether or not ‘the child’ is yours? Where else would a city like San Diego be considering banning cigarette…
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