A couple of years ago I looked at the growing trend of medical tourism in Israel and other international locations (Americans travelling abroad for surgeries). I suggested here (and elsewhere) that New Brunswick should take a long hard look at…
Continue ReadingA step in the right direction after all
Watch the tiny totters inching up a hillIt may seems to you he’s merely standing stillThough the steps he takes are infinitely smallThey’re a step in the right direction after all.-from Bedknobs and Broomsticks You will have to forgive me…
Continue ReadingWhere does the money come from?
I know a few Ontarioians read this blog so I have a reasonable question for you. I have not read much about the fiscal gap that Ontario has with Ottawa but I keep reading stories about how unfair it is…
Continue ReadingOn debt in New Brunswick
I see the provincial government trotted out that statistic about New Brunswick having the third lowest net debt per capita in the country when it released the government financial statements on Friday. This issue of debt is a bit of…
Continue ReadingTell the Story
Business New Brunswick has a new booklet – titled Tell The Story. This article talks about the Minister’s trip to LA and this new booklet. Anybody have a digital copy they can send me? I’d love to see the story.…
Continue ReadingOn Andy Scott
I guess you can accuse me of having a one track mind but, oh well, everybody’s got their own rice bowl. I was reading an article in the Daily Gleaner that interviewed Andy Scott about his 15 (?) years in…
Continue ReadingProcreate for the economy’s sake!
Actually, check that. More babies means more out-migration to Alberta unless we get our economy going down here. Stats Can just released its latest baby production data in Canada. You would think with 100,000 season workers and among the lowest…
Continue ReadingThe gamblers
Awhile back someone on this blog put me on to the Council on Foreign Relations podcasts – and I have been listening to 4-5 of these every week since. If you want to talk about Ukraine and NATO or microfinance…
Continue ReadingWorkplace and Employee Survey Compendium
I know we have talked about this ad nauseum in this blog but there is another report out today from Statistics Canada that should once again raise the flag of caution about spending 95% of our economic development time trying…
Continue ReadingRob Moir puts forward interesting ideas
NDP candidate Rob Moir has at least two things going for him: 1) he is blogging and 2) he has some interesting ideas. The following is a response he made to my criticism of his distributed emails as not proffering…
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