I have had a day or so to reflect on the provincial budget that came down on Tuesday. I continue to wonder why the piddly little tax increases that basically just annoy a wide variety of constituents but have no…
Continue ReadingDispatches from the road: On Taxes
All frigged up out here in SF. That whole time differential is a bit tricky. My watch tells me it’s 7:45 pm but my head tells me 11:45 pm. But other than that, I highly recommend SF to anyone. It’s…
Continue ReadingDispatches from the road: On spin doctors
I read in the newspaper that McKenna era Maurice Robichaud was being brought back as chief spin doctor for the provincial government. He’s the new head of Communications New Brunswick. That bought my thinking back to a topic I have…
Continue ReadingDispatches from the road: San Francisco
I’m settled into my quaint little hotel in the North Beach area of SF and it’s 4:30 am here (my mind thinks it’s 8:30 am). Regarding the provincial budget, there’s a lot of negative feedback this am about the slight…
Continue ReadingHere’s the thing…..
At least one person finds it a tad funny that New Brunswick’s government budget has increased more or less at the same rate as Ontario over the past five years despite the fact that Ontario added 750,000 people (larger than…
Continue ReadingSay it ain’t so, Joe
I just downloaded and had a quick look at the provincial budget. Did they actually cut the Business New Brunswick budget? I can’t believe it. I ‘searched’ for the term Business New Brunswick and it looks like they actually cut…
Continue ReadingI was wrong, sort of
I just got a look at the new Census population data. I was wrong. I had predicted a slight population decline from 2001-2006 but the population actually rose by 400 people. So I was wrong about that but I stick…
Continue ReadingMy position on urbanity
I got my fingers rapped a bit in a meeting last week after making my soapbox speech about the need for dominant, strong and successful urban areas in New Brunswick. I was provided with the usual commentary about ‘Moncton getting…
Continue ReadingSometimes, it’s like beating your head against a brick wall
I thought we were getting some traction. With a number of good columnists like Alec Bruce and even old Bill Belliveau making solid points. A few bloggers saying the right stuff. But the mainstream media just doesn’t get it. And…
Continue ReadingListen carefully. If you dismiss every other thing I have said recently, don’t dismiss this. The latest Statistics Canada’s labour force survey is out and it estimates that the labour force in New Brunswick shrunk by 9,400 people from Feb.…
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