Nice article in the TJ today about R&D in New Brunswick and the role of an organization called Springboard and its role in commercialization of research. But what is annoying about these types of articles is that they tell a…
Continue ReadingOn Quebec Sovereignty
The secret to Quebec separation from Canada, it seems to me is simple. I had this thought again as I read this article about how Quebec would be better able to weather the recession if it was a separate country. I…
Continue ReadingFor those of you who appreciate irony….
This is a fascinating thing for me to behold: Tom Mann, executive director of the New Brunswick Union said the government needs to look for ways to generate revenue – such as highway tolls – rather than cuts to the…
Continue ReadingThe death (or dearth?) of manufacturing
Stats Canada came out yesterday with a study on the decline of manufacturing in Canada. Being the lemmings that we are and the fact that the media in Canada is edited by Geraldo these days, this type of study leads…
Continue ReadingYour daily laugh
I laughed out loud when I saw this. It’s Maclean’s magazine’s attempt to show what $500,000 gets you for a house in major markets across Canada. Look at Moncton and then at Hamilton. I went in and did a little…
Continue ReadingStimulating job creation
It will be interesting to see the New Brunswick budget in March and see if there are any programs designed to create private sector jobs. I have been tracking US state budgets and many of them are adding new incentive…
Continue ReadingNuclear industry: An Opportunity?
I just finished a podcast while shovelling my driveway on the growth prospects for the nuclear industry over the next decade or so. Apparently, there are 104 nuclear power projects in the U.S. at some stage of the regulatory process…
Continue ReadingTalent clusters
Personal confession time. Since university I haven’t had anything like a ‘mentor’. I’ve had good and talented bosses and colleagues that I would debate well into the evening on issues of interest but no one that I can identify as…
Continue ReadingScar Tissue
The ICT industry is a tricky one from an economic development perspective. Because the industry is a perfect example of Joseph Schumpeter’s process of ‘creative destruction’ you get a lot of failure. In fact, I read once that most VCs…
Continue ReadingEt voila
I guess when we want to know what BNB is up to we will have to put Rebecca Penty on the case. Her story in the TJ this morning outlines what BNB has been doing to protect the Oracle operation…
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