CBC is reporting this A.M. that the Irvings are about to announce another multi-billion dollar 1,000 person refinery in the Saint John area. The formal announcement is expected tomorrow. What’s interesting about this from a political perspective is that this…
Continue ReadingA healthy choice
I want to talk about Mike Murphy this a.m. but a couple of housekeeping comments first. 1. I thought it was telling that Premier Graham (Premier Shawn?) went out of his way in his first speech as Premier to say…
Continue ReadingDumping the name Business New Brunswick
The TJ is reporting this morning that Business New Brunswick will be getting a new name. I have said on these pages before that BNB meant nothing as a concept. After 10 years of trying to educate folks about the…
Continue ReadingLeft-Right-Centre?
I will poke my nose ever so slightly into the realm of political commentary/analysis although I don’t have much of a track record. I am curious about this left-right dialogue going on right now in the federal Liberal leadership race.…
Continue ReadingAt least one segment of the population is doing well
It’s nice to see that Al Hogan over at the T&T has his priorities right. AFter burying the story last week showing New Brunswick’s steepest population decline in a single year since the Depression in the 1930s, we get a…
Continue ReadingWhy the Libs should care about regional development
I posted before that Michael Ignatieff is the only leader among the Liberal pack to have made regional economic development a major plank in his platform. I was told that Dion also talked about regional economic development but I couldn’t…
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