I was in a large bookstore in Sao Paulo last week and I picked up the tourism guide for Canada that was on display there. It was a whole book on Canada (large magazine format) with a couple of hundred…
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I was reading a bit about the history of this city last night – Sao Paulo. Canadian companies were actively involved in building the energy infrastructure and other big projects. I suspect you would similar stories in other Latin American…
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I am interviewed in the TJ today. I had a wide ranging discussion with the reporter and he settled on my comments regarding innovative economic development. I wanted to supplement that with a little more analysis here. I think it…
Continue ReadingPriorities No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3
If I was the czar of New Brunswick tomorrow, I would ask everyone to focus on job creation and economic development,” That would be priority No. 1. It would be priority No. 2 and it would be priority No. 3.…
Continue ReadingUbisoft Opening New Ontario, Toronto-Based Development Studio
Before some of you start decrying a place like New Brunswick’s ability to attract such a facility, someone who should know said NB was working on landing Ubisoft back in 1996. 800 high paying animators in Toronto. I guess that…
Continue ReadingSpace-based server farms
I just heard that Virgin Galactic is proposing to build massive computer server farms in space to eliminate the huge costs associated with cooling them. Why not put them in Canada? Should be cheaper and certain times of the year…
Continue ReadingOn legacy
I used to think that politicians shouldn’t spend too much time worrying about their legacy and, in fact, when I would mention this to the few that I have known over the years they would say something rhetorical like “I’m…
Continue ReadingAn Iggy Moment
Browsing through the local bookstore here is Sao Paulo today and randomly came across Michael Ignatieff’s Blood and Belonging. Looked for Stephen Harper’s book….. I bought it. I didn’t have much interest in the past but figured this was some…
Continue ReadingDC Talking on The Mark
Here’s a slightly modified version of a recent blog published on The Mark.
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