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.
Continue ReadingFunny how that goes
Expansion Management tracks major business expansions in the US while at the same time the federal government agency Invest in Canada tracks major business expansions in Canada. These two interesting sources tell us a lot about economic development in North…
Continue ReadingDeconstructing ‘What Matters"
“We have tabled successive balanced budgets, all while making record investments in what matters: health and senior care, education, helping those in need, lower taxes for families and businesses, affordable energy, and fostering job creation and economic development in all…
Continue ReadingDopey Gleaner smells something
It looks like the Dopey Gleaner is taking an opposite stance to Al Hogan on the election. If Freddy Beach swivels towards the Libs, the Cool Camel crowd is in trouble: Daily Gleaner – TodayParty platforms should include specificsIn our…
Continue ReadingDemographic ‘challenge’
I keep hearing politicians, bureaucrats, pundits and economists talking about our ‘demographic challenge’. I have posted on this before but heading into an election season where this little term will become the scapegoat for the fact that three out of…
Continue ReadingLet the games begin, Part Deux
It would seem that the Premier will be actually calling the election today instead of tomorrow so we are officially in election mode in New Brunswick – not that anyone will notice. This is about the best possible time for…
Continue ReadingI have never forgotten Parrsboro
First RIM, now this: Rural Nova Scotia has a new champion, and his name is Kerry Martens. The Vancouver man is pledging to create 1,500 jobs in the Cumberland County community of Parrsboro in the next two years. And he…
Continue ReadingYoo hoo, where is Accelerating Prosperity?
NBPolitico makes an interesting point today. Wasn’t Stephen Harper going to turn on the gravy train tap to bolster Premier Lord’s election chances? What about funding for Pt. Lepreau? What about the PP2 (Accelerating Prosperity)? Am I the only guy…
Continue ReadingThe essence of the thing
“I think New Brunswick is well on the way to becoming a real economic powerhouse and it’s going to happen because of the decisions we’ve made over the last seven years to make New Brunswick the investment province,” said Kirk…
Continue ReadingUn-Truth in Reporting
In his quest to get Bernard Lord re-elected, Al Hogan has achieved a new high (or low depending on your perspective). The headline in the T&T today in big bold letters: Minacs to create 1,200 new jobs by year’s endNow,…
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