Interesting article in the Globe & Mail today about Frank McKenna and his role as rainmaker for TD Bank. Here’s the first part of that article: The thing about Frank McKenna stories is that they inevitably veer toward the same…
Continue ReadingWho’s Zooming Who?
You came to catchYou thought I’d be naive and tameYou met your matchBut I beat you at your own game Who’s zoomin’ whoTake another look, and tell me babeWho’s zoomin’ who -Aretha Franklin Brian Tobin, former Newfoundland premier, joins Fraser…
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Shawn Graham’s Cabinet is made up of something like six Ministers from Saint John (reflective of the election results). Now, Al Hogan is writing story after story and now “We Say” demanding that the Premier fund a new convention centre…
Continue ReadingCooking with the books
I must be getting old. But I have this overwhelming feeling of deja vu. The year 1999. The setting – right after the provincial election. The firm: Grant Thornton. The objective: do a ‘real’ audit of the books to see…
Continue ReadingAsk and ye shall receive
A number of you have expressed frustration about the lack of action on economic development and also concluded that blogs like this are an exercise in futility because things don’t change. I don’t really agree with this as I think…
Continue ReadingIs it Stephane Dion or Dijon?
It’s amazing what you can be hammered for as a politician. Tom Young and Ezra Levant were just castigating Stephane Dion today on his Rogers call in show over Dion not wanting to give up his French citizenship. In reality,…
Continue ReadingComplaints Choir of Helsinki
Apparently, this is the rage in Europe right now (I listen to the BBC at work sometimes). It’s a real choir in Finland that sings nothing but complaints. It’s interesting because Finland is said to be the best place in…
Continue ReadingICT closing centre in Miramichi
Someone in the Miramichi tells me that ICT Group is shutting its Miramichi verification center in Douglastown down by March 2007, citing restructuring. Apparently all verification work is heading to Ireland and Hyderabad, India. ICT is apparently offering tranfers to…
Continue ReadingQ&A segment
Okay, today I will play a little ‘Dear Abby’ segment. I received this email from someon this morning: Dear It’s the Economy, Stupid (or just plain Stupid for short): I saw an Alberta-based pundit say something on Newsworld last night…
Continue ReadingJustifying economic development
Yesterday, in the House of Commons, Jack Layton gave everyone a quick laugh when he demanded that Stephen Harper stop the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for big oil and big ‘ass’. As we have debated on…
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