Last month, when the labour market report came out, I mused that Minister Doherty must have been using the same spin doctor as the previous government. It would seem that things have changed this month. Although the employment picture actually…
Continue ReadingLearning from Alec Bruce & Pierre Pelletier
Want to know where there is intersection between sex and economic development? Just read Alec Bruce’s column on Monday in the Times & Transcript on Wednesday. Alec starts by talking about New Brunswick’s low fertility rate and how that will…
Continue ReadingOld Brazilian proverb
I’ll botch the English translation but it goes something like this: Grandfather earns it – son fritters it away – and grandson is broke. Sounds a bit like what’s going on with the Beaverbrook Gallery in Fredericton these days.
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Pop quiz. In the USA, where do the $1.3 Billion, 2,500 high paying jobs auto plant manufacturers set up? Here in the one of the most rural areas of Georgia. A place with a population of 3,000 people. How do…
Continue ReadingVindication, again
My position that the government should strategically invest in key sectors to stimulate their growth can come under fire by folks posting to this blog and by a larger group of journalist and experts who bristle at the notion of…
Continue ReadingReversing Fortunes
It would seem that Saint John is finally on a roll. After getting something like six Ministers in the new Liberal government and the announcement of that new refinery project (possible), now they get this. You can’t buy publicity like…
Continue ReadingSpeak up sonny, I cain’t hear yah!
I must be getting old. I have been missing a few juicy bloggable topics in the past week or so. Like this. According to Statistics Canada, only Newfoundland and Labrador has a lower percentage of young people in its population.…
Continue ReadingNeed a new term for ‘strong economy’
I have heard or read a number of economists, journalists and politicians talk in the past few weeks about New Brunswick’s ‘strong economy’ generating low unemployment and pushing up wages. It may have been true in the early 1990s that…
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