I have never understood why the enterprising economic developers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have never made any serious push to attract the back offices of the financial services industry. Many of these jobs pay very well and require…
Continue ReadingTake a stand, darn it!
I have been railing politicians for waffling on economic development. For not just diving in and getting it done. I suggest they take a cue from a volunteer fire department in a Newfoundland town. Now that’s hutzpa.
Continue ReadingThe rural squeeze
I knew this was coming sooner or later. The president of the Fredericton Youth Hockey Association expects to lose hundreds of players because of the city’s plan to increase rink user fees by hundreds of dollars for rural families. People…
Continue ReadingCongrats Rodney, now get busy
I have been following the Nova Scotia election fairly closely as I have several clients in that province and because I think a stronger economy in Nova Scotia is good for the whole region. So, congratulations to Rodney MacDonald as…
Continue ReadingRegional spending out of control?
This story’s all over the national press: MacKay doubles Liberal spending on corporate welfareCanWest News ServiceConservatives under fire for regional spending figuresStarPhoenix, Canada – June 12, 2006Tory spending favours east, analysis shows$90M outlay in Atlantic Canada tops among regional funding…
Continue ReadingMusings on the latest poll
I am not sure that the poll out yesterday was much of a surprise. I talked to a number of fairly placed folks yesterday and the concensus is that the pile of spending announcements, the lucrative spending budget and the…
Continue ReadingTories serving up gravy
I thought they were scrapping this John Manley-brainchild-Ottawa-and-Montreal-development program? Maybe not. $189 million from Technology Partnerships Canada for CAE’s research and development project called Phoenix. A total of $630 million is expected to be invested in the Phoenix Project over…
Continue ReadingBring on the Bilderberg
I don’t usually scrape content for fear of the big bad media monitor swooping down to crush me like a fly but this article is neat and I can’t find you a free link: The New Brunswick connection: Did Frank…
Continue ReadingWhat’s in a headline?
What’s in a headline. Here are the three leading stories over the weekend about the latest job data from Statistics Canada. Note that the T&T and DG actually ran the same story but with slightly different headlines: Times & TranscriptN.B.…
Continue ReadingFor the economic development smile-a-day file
You may find this funny or possibly annoying or both. It’s a story in the Arkansas News that concludes there is political advantage to encourage Toyota to build its next auto plant in Arkansas (the New Brunswick of the south)…
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