The love-in between Al Hogan and Premier Lord is well known but sometimes Al and his journalists can get carried away. In an effort to find someone, anyone, who would support the Premier on the recent letter controversy (you know…
Continue ReadingThe Federal budget and regional economic development
I couldn’t find much in the budget about regional economic development. Found this on Radio-Canada: Maintenir le financement des agences de développement régional comme l’APECA, la DEO, la FedNor et le BEC(Q). Sounds like there is limited appetite to cut…
Continue ReadingNo cream of the crop in New Brunswick
I watch each year for the The Caldwell Partners’ Top 40 Under 40 for two reasons: 1) because I just might be the only person in Canada to have worked for two of these esteemed folks (there have only been…
Continue ReadingMusings on the Federal budget
Sorry folks but I can’t serve up a long winded review of the federal budget because a) there were over 800 pages of text released today and I wouldn’t know where to begin and b) because I don’t know much…
Continue ReadingReview the Times & Transcript
Edited version of a Times & Transcript editorial this morning. Just for fun I took Al Hogan’s latest rant against the CBC and made a couple of, shall we say, modifications for your morning chuckle: The Irving in charge of…
Continue ReadingMacbride and the ride
Mike MacBride, former Director of Trade & Investment with the former Department of Economic Development and Tourism, is in the Telegraph Journal today with his editorial on the woeful state of economic development in New Brunswick: …our leaders, including Premier…
Continue ReadingNew, er trade development program
I was driving over to Riverview on Saturday when I saw a motorcade of about 6-7 official looking vehicles and we were made to pull over. I figured Harper was in town for that 500 bucks a head fundraiser for…
Continue ReadingGhost in the Machine
Wow, This freaks me out. I was responding to Scott’s post about the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and making a particularly cranky point and then I went to save the post and guess what the Word Verification letters were?…
Continue Reading‘Maritimization’ of the Ontario economy
Working my way through Savoie’s book: Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes. Usually, I would have read that thing over a weekend, but things have been fast and furious in this corner of cyberspace over the past few weeks.…
Continue ReadingWant to track FDI into NB?
Industry Canada’s Invest in Canada web site tracks FDI investments into Canada by province. Before you click on the link, a few caveats. One, this database is far from complete. I know of a few projects that aren’t in for…
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