It's The Economy, Stupid

I was driving over to Riverview on Saturday when I saw a motorcade of about 6-7 official looking vehicles and we were made to pull over. I figured Harper was in town for that 500 bucks a head fundraiser for…

Wow, This freaks me out. I was responding to Scott’s post about the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and making a particularly cranky point and then I went to save the post and guess what the Word Verification letters were?…

Working my way through Savoie’s book: Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes. Usually, I would have read that thing over a weekend, but things have been fast and furious in this corner of cyberspace over the past few weeks.…

Industry Canada’s Invest in Canada web site tracks FDI investments into Canada by province. Before you click on the link, a few caveats. One, this database is far from complete. I know of a few projects that aren’t in for…

I know that I pick on Al Hogan a lot but if you know me you know that I firmly believe that the media has a critical role to play if a place like New Brunswick is ever to turn…

The CBC is reporting that Premier Bernard Lord’s press secretary Chisholm Pothier has resigned after distributing a letter to the media that included a New Brunswicker’s personal information including drunk driving record. Now, I’m not going to beat a man…

Remember this name well, CGI Group. This firm invested heavily in New Brunswick. Set up their ‘G-Lab’ research laboratory in Fredericton. Has considerable employment in Saint John. It is top notch IT company with 25,000 global employees. A few weeks…

Sorry to talk about the T&T twice in one day but it would seem my previous blog on the lack of T&T coverage of Northrop Frye was somewhat inaccurate. It seems that Al Hogan likes the festival after all judging…

Imagine a negative economic story in the Times & Transcript. Then imagine a negative economic story in the Times & Transcript that doesn’t include a ‘we’re encouraged’ quote from the Premier or a Cabinet Minister. Imagine a negative economic story…

I got my Budget 2006-2007 briefing in the mail today. As with the ‘Report Card’ and the ‘Prebudget briefing’ documents, I continue to be amazed that the government can spend what must amount to several hundred thousand dollars each time…