The latest employment numbers are out and the NB economy added 2,000 people to the employed ranks in October. But what is interesting is that 6,000 people entered the workforce. Looking at previous months this doesn’t seem to be any…
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I got a really interesting email from a participant at the Ideas Festival. I didn’t ask permission to post their comments so I will leave them anonymous but I think you will find them interesting. My line:“Former NS Liberal leader…
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Live blogging again on my Blackberry. Buzz Hargrove wasn’t very inspiring yesterday. After his rants, he told us a story that was supposed to inspire us. He said he was fishing in BC and caught an Atlantic Salmon. He asked…
Continue ReadingThe economic thread
It’s hard to get away from it. There is an economic development thread throughout this Ideas Festival. Jacques Poitras talked with Michel Bastarache about the law and chronic under economic development performance in the Maritimes. Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson lamented in…
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Old Buzz Hargrove is ranting about the need to expel the foreign auto car companies.
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I’m at this Ideas Festival in St. Andrews. It’s an interesting idea and program and for me it gets me a bit out of the economic development area and into the wider world but I can’t help thinking that economic…
Continue ReadingEnd of an era
John Thompson is leaving his post as the head of Enterprise Greater Moncton to head up Atlantic Beef Products Inc. in Albany, P.E.I. Thompson was an energetic guy who leveraged broad networks to the benefit of the Greater Moncton region.…
Continue ReadingEnterprise Agencies should be regional in focus
I might get in trouble with my comments on this one but here goes anyway. If you read this blog with regularity you will know that I believe the economic development buck stops in the local community. I think abdicating…
Continue ReadingNew Brunswick’s Gordian Knot
New Brunswick needs the extra $105 million it will receive this year in equalization payments to move closer to its goal of self-sufficiency, the province’s finance minister says.Finance Minister Victor Boudreau insisted Tuesday the initial stage of the 20-year self-sufficiency…
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We are products of our environment – at least to some level. I spent six years living in Virginia and attending a heavily conservative university – some of the economist professors were avowed Libertarians. I spent two years as the…
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