Because you won’t see this information in any of our ‘normal’ media sources, I see it as my civic duty to provide you with the facts. The following chart shows the net migration of people to/from New Brunswick and it’s…
Continue ReadingSustainable development – missing the point in New Brunswick?
Sustainable development definitionFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sustainable development is a process of developing (land, cities, business, communities, etc) that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” according to…
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The love-in between Al Hogan and Premier Lord is well known but sometimes Al and his journalists can get carried away. In an effort to find someone, anyone, who would support the Premier on the recent letter controversy (you know…
Continue ReadingThe Federal budget and regional economic development
I couldn’t find much in the budget about regional economic development. Found this on Radio-Canada: Maintenir le financement des agences de développement régional comme l’APECA, la DEO, la FedNor et le BEC(Q). Sounds like there is limited appetite to cut…
Continue ReadingNo cream of the crop in New Brunswick
I watch each year for the The Caldwell Partners’ Top 40 Under 40 for two reasons: 1) because I just might be the only person in Canada to have worked for two of these esteemed folks (there have only been…
Continue ReadingMusings on the Federal budget
Sorry folks but I can’t serve up a long winded review of the federal budget because a) there were over 800 pages of text released today and I wouldn’t know where to begin and b) because I don’t know much…
Continue ReadingReview the Times & Transcript
Edited version of a Times & Transcript editorial this morning. Just for fun I took Al Hogan’s latest rant against the CBC and made a couple of, shall we say, modifications for your morning chuckle: The Irving in charge of…
Continue ReadingMacbride and the ride
Mike MacBride, former Director of Trade & Investment with the former Department of Economic Development and Tourism, is in the Telegraph Journal today with his editorial on the woeful state of economic development in New Brunswick: …our leaders, including Premier…
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