Just finished Fareed Zakaria’s lightly named tome The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. It’s billed as an update of Tocqueville and I am not the one to dispute that claim. Zakaria figures we’ve all had way…
Continue ReadingGroupthink and the T&T
Someone asked me why I haven’t mentioned the T&T’s think tank or groupthink or whatever that is showing data from a local survey that basically confirms that Monctonians perceive this community to be safe, have a good quality of life…
Continue ReadingOn David Suzuki
I have to admit to a bit of befuddlement over the environment issues these days – particularly where they intersect with economic development. And I must say that environmentalists don’t make it easy. They all agree (mostly) on global climate…
Continue ReadingDecline of the American empire – mini rant
Geez. Between the Lou Dobbsification of America and the Bill O’Reilly as Culture Warrier, it’s no wonder more and more people inside and outside the USA are using this term (decline of America) or variations. It’s become cool to act…
Continue ReadingNo biotech here
Stats Can published their biotechnology survey this week. As is usually the case, the organization had to lump together the four Atl. provinces because there’s not enough activity to split them out. The #s don’t look good. Little old Saskatchewan…
Continue ReadingNorthern econ. dev. redux
I actually got a couple of telephone calls over my blog on Northern NB the other day. Maybe I’ll boil my thinking down to one simple concept. Make that two. 1. Do you want to be about hanging on or…
Continue ReadingAnybody want to tell me about CGI
CGI is expanding again in Halifax. They have expanded there recently and also in PEI. They are apparently looking to double in size. Anybody want to tell me why there are no stories of CGI expanding in New Brunswick? I…
Continue ReadingIn like a lion, out like a lamb
You know the old weather axiom “In like a lion, out like a lamb”, that was going through my mind as former Premier Bernard Lord retired – for now anyway – from public life yesterday. It seemed a bit surreal…
Continue ReadingWhat’s up with PEI?
This makes 6-7 major announcements in the past couple of months: Ceridian Canada to Establish Centre of Excellence on Prince Edward IslandCeridian Canada, a leading human resources services company, willestablish a centre of excellence on Prince Edward Island to meet…
Continue ReadingAtlantic Canada quartet harmonizes for mega-jobs
Finally, some common sense coming out of Alberta on the Atlantic Canada ‘problem’.
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