Just a quick thought tonight before I get back to my day, er night job. I was working with a client in rural Atlantic Canada not too long ago and there was a high level of frustration. This was a…
Continue ReadingThe hits keep comin’ – NB style
Wow, did this make the news? I didn’t see it but I don’t read/listen to everything. Statistics Canada published a study last week on the amount of people living below the low income cutoff (otherwise known as the poverty line).…
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I had to show you this. I can’t link because you need a subscription: Former Conservative says northern N.B. economy nearing ‘crisis’Furlong turns back on Tories, offers to help GritsBy Shannon HagermanTelegraph-JournalA former Conservative cabinet minister says the northern New…
Continue ReadingLeHogan strikes again
Did you catch the Times & Transcript’s reporting of the latest Labour Market Survey for Canada? Before I give you Al Hogan’s spin on it, let me give you the unvarnished version: -New Brunswick added an estimated 400 jobs in…
Continue ReadingMichael Ignatieff has a good point
I don’t want to ignite a debate about Michael Ignatieff but I did like what he had to say in his Maclean’s interview last week: I’d like to be a politician, the public figure who promised little and delivered what…
Continue ReadingFrank McKenna takes a job
Frank McKenna, former N.B. premier and ambassador, named TD Bank deputyLast updated 4:47pm EST 04/06/2006TORONTO (CP) – TD Bank (TSX:TD) has hired a high-level rainmaker with the appointment of Frank McKenna as deputy chairman. The former New Brunswick Liberal premier…
Continue ReadingWould somebody please explain that whole LNG thing?
Okay, here’s the story. We are all familiar with it. FREDERICTON (CP) – New Brunswick’s senior minister in the federal cabinet says Ottawa views liquefied natural gas as dangerous cargo that can be banned from transport in Canadian waters. Veterans…
Continue ReadingImitation, flattery – how’s that line go?
Hmm. It’s time for New Brunswick to welcome back Malcolm BricklinRUCK BUCKINGHAMFROM THE HIPTelegraph JournalApril 4, 2006 Bernard Lord and Stephen Harper, why don’t we send signals to the Chinese that whatever strategic partnerships we now enjoy between our countries…
Continue ReadingWill we miss them?
Yet another story about New Brunswickers moving west: Alberta BoundJob boom drives up provincial population at five times the national averageBill Mah, The Edmonton JournalPublished: Wednesday, March 29, 2006EDMONTON – An airport shuttle van pulls up, dumps six suitcases and…
Continue ReadingLate 80s flashback!
Stop, stop – I can’t get Getty Lee out of my head! Energy is contagiousEnthusiasm spreadsTides respond to lunar gravitationEverything turns in synchronous relationHope is epidemicOptimism spreadsBitterness breeds irritationIgnorance breeds imitation
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