I hate to sound like a broken record on this but I continue to believe we need a serious research organization based in New Brunswick to study the reasons why New Brunswick has not prospered and policy recommendations to try…
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Alec Bruce has a good article in the T&T today about ACOA. I zoomed in on a particular statement that he must have pulled from the organization’s annual report. According to its most recent five-year Report to Parliament, “each dollar…
Continue ReadingFinding our niche
I will be attending the Worldsourcing conference in Halifax next week. I am very interested to discuss and develop further this notion of Atlantic Canada wedging in as a ‘nearshore’ component of the onshore, nearshore and offshore global business model. …
Continue ReadingConsolidating effort
Without much reason, I have been reading a number of books about the second world war recently. 50-60 years later is bringing some very good retrospective views on that period. Anyway, I got a chance to come through the Plaster…
Continue ReadingGood old Toronto
I see in this article that the City of Toronto is relaunching its economic development agency (formerly known as the Toronto Economic Development Corp.) as Invest Toronto. Invest Toronto’s mission is to market and promote the city in new and…
Continue ReadingNation building
I’m just back from a few days in Ottawa. We visited Parliament and the Museum of Science and Technology. Everywhere you look in that town there are memorials to national building and statecraft. Whether it is national health care, roads,…
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