It's The Economy, Stupid

This is a good thing, on a number of levels. First there is considerable IT heft in Saint John and to have a provincial IT initiative led out of that city makes sense. Second, we need a provincial initiative. Read…

One of the oldest tricks in the advertising biz is to develop ads that are so interesting and innovative that you get a pile of media coverage thus doubling or more the impact of the advertising. The other thing about…

I love it when the media talks about a new “Marshall Plan” or “Bretton Woods” plan to address the current global financial crisis. Not to be outmanoeuvered, some are calling for Green Marshall Plan. It’s funny but I actually like…

The TJ has an editorial quite critical of SJ leadership this a.m. and it uses the dreaded comparison to Moncton and Fredericton to make its point. It’s been a good year for Moncton and Fredericton. In March, these municipalities were…

Well, this will be fun. Fredericton and Moncton vying to be the world’s most intelligent community. Both communities made the short list of 21 Intelligent communities. Congratulations. I’ll be curious to see how they get to the short list of…

I think the first time I started to seriously think that data centres might be an interesting ED opportunity for NB was over three years ago. Now, it is now a mainstream economic development opportunity and I get multiple stories…

It’s a bit strange but I have five emails in my inbox suggesting that Keith Ashfield getting the ACOA portfolio would be great news for New Brunswick. The kind of legacy that McGuire left in PEI, one said. Maybe. But…

I saw on Tuesday as Frank McKenna was announcing he wouldn’t run to lead the Libs, the other less known Premier, Bernard Lord, was announced as the new president of the Canadian wireless industry association. I was more confused about…

I just heard Finance Minister Jim Flaherty say that the Equalization program as currently structured is unsustainable. The New Brunswick government has relied on tens of millions more each year in Equalization and it is now the single largest source…

There’s an X factor in politics. Something that cuts across policies, dogma and ideology. There was something about Frank McKenna that made a few of us (maybe a lot of us) think that New Brunswick could be a leader instead…