Hey look! A bunch of students protesting the lack of serious economic development in New Brunswick and the lack of economic opportunity for them in their home province! Finally. Just kidding. I guess they are protesting cuts to the cultural…
Continue ReadingFatKat attracts other animation company
The Miramichi Leader is reporting that FatKat has helped attract another small animation firm to the Miramichi. I still think there is potential to have a nice little animation cluster in the ‘Chi. A number of graduates of the animation…
Continue ReadingSubsidy Directory 2008
I get this announcement in my email each year and I like to post it here. Just for fun and to force NBT back into the Pepto-Bismol for a day or so. I almost think it’s a joke of some…
Continue ReadingGone Blackberry
Today’s a big day. I finally make the leap into the Blackberry world. Your responses to the blog will be posted faster, I guess.
Continue ReadingThe shifting definition of self-sufficiency
Premier Graham has a commentary in the three big English papers today discussing his first two years in office. In the spirit of this blog’s propensity for number crunching, we check some of the Premier’s numbers: He says there are…
Continue ReadingOn India and dribbling off into an EI rant
Thanks to the person who put me on to UChannel. I am back up to 2-3 podcasts a day. I forgo watching the Biden/Palen, oops I mean Harper/Dion debate to listen to this podcast about Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce…
Continue ReadingCheesy but relevant
I decree today that life Is simply taking and not giving England is mine – it owes me a living But ask me why, and I’ll spit in your eye Oh, ask me why, and I’ll spit in your eye…
Continue ReadingI thought I felt a chill in the air last night
I have to admit that I have both “The Creative Class” and “Who’s Your City” and wasn’t able to get through them. A few chapters in I got all bogged down in the efficacy of Richard Florida’s cause and effect…
Continue ReadingThe BC Progress Board
I know I have posted the link to this organization at least 3-4 times in the past four years but it is well worth posting again for new readers of the blog. The BC Progress Board is an excellent example…
Continue ReadingJournalism at its finest, again
Why would the Times & Transcript run an article about the latest migration numbers (and mistakenly call it population), then quote the Minister of BNB talking about the ‘strong’ population growth and never mention the significant net out-migration of people…
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