This is interesting. The City of Toronto Act proclaimed Monday provides Canada’s largest city with broad new powers and significant new legislative freedoms. The act grants a wide range of new powers, including the ability to regulate store openings on…
Continue ReadingLooking for a few good (non-gender specific) men
I posted a blog a few weeks ago postulating that in front of every good economic development program you will have politicians and behind it you will have a few good civil servants. I got some blowback for this position…
Continue ReadingAnother $47.5M Fed investment in Quebec
Doesn’t it seem to you that there’s a $50M Federal economic development investment in Quebec or Ontario announced every week? The latest is $47.5 million from the Feds in a $1-billion residential and commercial development at the Mont-Tremblant, Que. ski…
Continue ReadingConsiderations for 2007
Here we go again. Another year. For economic development watchers/practitioners, 2006 was another interesting year – but not a lot of it was positive. Here are my picks for the good, bad and ugly of 2006 (relative to economic development…
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