I have been mulling over a pithy blog about the Irish high end housing community that is being proposed for, I believe, the Elgin area. As I pondered what to say, my mind flashed back to a series of conversations…
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People say I’m too monotonous with my concern over the labour market stats that come out every months. Especially when Al Hogan and Samuel Lebreton love to gush about how great things are. At least the CBC last month actually…
Continue ReadingTip your hat to PEI
You have to like this. The Netherlands-based firm SeaQuation says it will hire up to 20 people as it sets up its first North American office in Charlottetown. The company provides professional services and is developing software for financial services…
Continue ReadingPrimer on NSBI
There’s a good primer on what Nova Scotia Business Inc. is up to these days in our neighbouring province. I can’t give you the link because it’s behind a firewall but here’s a few excerpts (it’s Stephen Lund, the CEO…
Continue ReadingI’ll take one hearty Newfie over 100 snooty Victorians any day
The Victoria Time-Colonist has a penchant for running absolutely stupid commentaries on the subject of Atlantic Canada. This guy, obviously a couple of cans short of a six pack, suggests a link between that whacko that killed his kids in…
Continue ReadingI’d like to take that back, thanks
Oops. Peter Mackay is a great guy, to be sure. But I’ll be he wants this quote back from the Pictou News today. Peter MacKay: “We’re continuing to pursue a number of options that are going to create and preserve…
Continue ReadingHere’s some fun
Guess how many mistakes are made in this article? You would think the erudite San Francisco would have a little better knowledge of geography. I listed to Brueggergosman when she was just Gosman and belting it out as a teenager…
Continue ReadingComplain, gripe – get more dough!
Feds to spend $101 million on new defence facilities in St. John’s, N.L. The federal government will spend $101 million to upgrade Canadian Forces Station St. John’s. Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor says it’s become increasingly costly to maintain the 50-year-old…
Continue ReadingSomething stinks
The media is reporting today: A Nova Scotia town with over 100 years of steelmaking history met the cold-blooded reality of modern business Wednesday with the announced closure of its railcar plant and loss of 330 jobs.U.S.-based parent, the Greenbrier…
Continue ReadingWar-torn nation of Atlantica
And so it begins. The Anti-Atlantica crowd were right. This is taken from an actual story in the Missouri-based Maryville Daily Forum: In the war-torn nation of Atlantica, a nervous team of negotiators seeks to secure safe passage for personnel…
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