Anybody have any feedback on this? On June 11th and 12th join us for the opportunity to celebrate the Games and Animation industry at NBCC Miramichi, NB.
Continue ReadingTough to compete with Montreal in the life sciences area
Quebec Economic Development Minister Raymond Bachand is today announcing the creation of a new public-private Quebec consortium to stimulate research into drug development in the province. The consortium brings three pharma companies – Pfizer Canada, AstraZeneca Canada and Merck Frosst…
Continue ReadingGetting to MaRS
If you have looked at the MaRS model for R&D, incubation, etc., you should listen to this podcast. Located in Toronto’s Discovery District — two square kilometres that have been designated as the city’s centre of innovation – the MaRS…
Continue ReadingThe revenge of the outsourced
I had a chat today with someone (who shall remain anonymous as they are a frequent reader of this blog) who had lunch with a bunch of folks from a Latin American country that are in New Brunswick training to…
Continue ReadingIt’s the economy, stupid podcast (June 16)
Here is the latest podcast edition of the blog. Hope you enjoy it. We are talking about in-migration, biofuels, building education linkages with India and other stuff.
Continue ReadingThe OECD pokes at every sacred cow in Canada
If you are so inclined there is a very detailed analysis of the Canadian economy and recommendations for improvment from the OECD. You can read it here. If you have access, you can read Jeffrey Simpson’s assessment here. The report…
Continue ReadingThere’s no such thing as bad press?
I read most of the big papers in Canada (or at least scan them for relevant content). Lately, there have been a number of stories about New Brunswick. There were several on the irony of Canada’s only officially bilingual province…
Continue ReadingTax free day
Now that I am in the ‘media’ so to speak (as a columnist) I can see things from the perspective of the journalist. But what I am trying to find out is this. I heard at least 6-7 stories on…
Continue ReadingThe world is flat, no wait, it’s spiky, no maybe it’s actually round?
Thomas Friedman makes a bajillion dollars telling us the world is flat. That technology and globalization means that anything can be done anywhere. Richard the-rock-star Florida comes along and says, wait, Friedman is wrong. The world isn’t flat. In fact,…
Continue ReadingGrab some of that pie
You know that a number of Canadian universities and colleges are going to be all over this. I wonder if New Brunswick’s schools even have this on the radar: India asked Canada on Saturday to share its knowledge and make…
Continue Reading