David Frum is a guy who invokes a lot of passion one way or the other but I don’t think many people would disagree with his debut snippet on Starbuck’s coffee: I just think that in the current New Brunswick…
Continue ReadingWhen home is not where the jobs are
The Globe & Mail series on the labour shortage in Canada is pretty friggin’ sobering. Today’s article profiles efforts by the Newfoundland government to encourage Stephenville workers to move out west for a few months and then come back and…
Continue ReadingMaybe my paranoia is finally kicking in
Am I going crazy or what? I can’t find any reference in the Times & Transcript to one of the most important economic development stories in decades. As I reported a few days ago: Headz Gamez International has announced plans…
Continue ReadingTell Somebody, please
I thought this was neat. It’s a bit like the shampoo commercial. You tell two friends, and they’ll tell two friends, and so on. If someone from Hoyt moves to Edmonton, now City Hall wants that person to get his…
Continue ReadingI’m not backing down on this one
It’s unanimous. Everyone including a lot of Liberals think Shawn Graham’s strategy to bring in some top talent from outside the province to reinvigorate the civil service is bad politics. Notice I said politics – most still say it may…
Continue ReadingDeconstructing the employment numbers
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me but I couldn’t stop laughing when I put together this spreadsheet based on Statistics Canada’s annual labour force survey. I looked at the period of the present government 2000 to 2005 (the six…
Continue ReadingInvigorating the civil service
I think one of Shawn Graham’s best campaign platforms is this idea of bringing in some top talent from outside the province to help recast a vision for New Brunswick and bring in new ideas to invigorate the civil service.…
Continue ReadingPromising tax cuts
Tax cuts as a political ploy bother me. It’s a bit like ‘investing in health care’. Who’s going to say ‘yeah, that’s a bad idea’. So, parties invariably these days include ‘tax cuts’ in their platform. Don’t get me wrong.…
Continue ReadingGrading the government
On a relatively slow Sunday afternoon, I decided to whip up a report card on the government’s activities over the past seven years. Realize that beyond economic development, I have no subject matter expertise and would welcome your own scoring.…
Continue ReadingThe Election Campaign Blogs
Here’s the Premier’s blog and Shawn Graham’s blog if you are so inclined. In the Web business, it is bad form to have a blog with either no content or one that hasn’t been updated in months.
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