As I went to work on Thurday, a new colleague of mine at the office was in a foul mood. She’ a native Nova Scotian and one of those very bright kids that left the region and was going to…
Continue ReadingThe New Brunswick Legislature
Shawn Graham is saying that the New Brunswick Legislature is the laughingstock of Legislatures across the ‘Commonwealth’. Upon some reflection, I have to agree. I know this will rub you the wrong way but I’ll say it anyway. The New…
Continue ReadingThe ‘alternate’ Statistics Canada that no one else knows about
Kirk Macdonald is advising everyone to go to Statistics Canada to check out how great New Brunswick’s economy is doing. He may want to retract that little recommendation as going there will reveal serious export troubles, fast rising poverty, the…
Continue ReadingFun with the hansard
Reading the hansard from the New Brunswick legislature question period is a bit like grinding teeth. The posers of questions don’t expect answers and they don’t get them. Then they re-ask the question in another way and they still don’t…
Continue ReadingThere once was a time
Last month, CBC ran a story about Premier Lord receiving the largest salary among Canada’s premiers mainly because of the very large chunk of money paid by the PC party. The local newspaper editor claimed this was great because it…
Continue ReadingRolling the Dice
The fiscal imbalance thing is heating up. The Premiers are in Montreal today to talk about it. According to the TT article today, the Premier says: …..over the long term New Brunswick needs “substantial improvements to equalization and substantial increases…
Continue ReadingAsk and ye shall receive – part deux
Just a quick thought tonight before I get back to my day, er night job. I was working with a client in rural Atlantic Canada not too long ago and there was a high level of frustration. This was a…
Continue ReadingThe hits keep comin’ – NB style
Wow, did this make the news? I didn’t see it but I don’t read/listen to everything. Statistics Canada published a study last week on the amount of people living below the low income cutoff (otherwise known as the poverty line).…
Continue ReadingListen to the Doctor
I had to show you this. I can’t link because you need a subscription: Former Conservative says northern N.B. economy nearing ‘crisis’Furlong turns back on Tories, offers to help GritsBy Shannon HagermanTelegraph-JournalA former Conservative cabinet minister says the northern New…
Continue ReadingLeHogan strikes again
Did you catch the Times & Transcript’s reporting of the latest Labour Market Survey for Canada? Before I give you Al Hogan’s spin on it, let me give you the unvarnished version: -New Brunswick added an estimated 400 jobs in…
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