The TJ has an editorial today recommending we push New Brunswick’s IT advantage. I guess I am getting old and cynical but I think we need to define what we want from a statement like that. I’m thinking back to…
Continue ReadingMusings on the TJ
I just read that Jamie Irving and another senior person at the TJ are out over this Harper/Wafer story. It seems quite severe but I guess I don’t know the full story (back story). I just met Irving for the…
Continue ReadingMaybe
As kids we used to pick on our old Grammy. She was getting old and deaf and we would whisper outrageous things in her ear. Her response? Always a skeptical “maybe”. That came to mind when I read another article…
Continue ReadingA bias against excellence
I talked with a couple of university based researchers this week (I won’t mention their names because it’s a relatively small community but they are not in New Brunswick) and received confirmation once again the bias against any attempt to…
Continue ReadingFred Morley and immigrant networking
A few years ago I talked with Fred Morley about this. He was concerned that new, professional immigrants were not integrating well into existing business and professional networks in Halifax. He had this idea of setting up a program where…
Continue ReadingGet to solutions
The Times and Transcript is running that editorial from the Fraser Institute that has been making the rounds arguing that the massive overuse of the employment insurance in New Brunswick is the reason why the EI programs should not be…
Continue ReadingCultural spending comparison
Statistics Canada is out with their annual government spending figures on culture. Would it surprise you to konw that all three levels of government combined in New Brunswick spend less on culture than all but British Columbia? The government spends…
Continue ReadingThere is a northern New Brunswick after all
For some of you southern NB folks, you may not be aware that there has never really been a defined area called ‘northern’ New Brunswick. Sometimes Miramichi is in. Edmundston has never really been in. There has never been a…
Continue ReadingFidelity planning major expansion into Canada
There is no reason why this type of operation – at least the back office part – couldn’t be in New Brunswick. Fidelity Investments, the second-largest clearing broker in the United States, is planning a multi-million-dollar expansion into the clearing…
Continue ReadingGoogle and energy
I don’t want to beat this one to death but on the heals of this editorial, I thought I would make explicit a key point (IMO). The government can’t lose millions from subsidizing electricity rates for Google to generate less…
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