Could Google be coming to NB? That’s the speculation in this article. Unless electricity rates are cheaper or we can do something creative like harness cold water from the Bay of Fundy to cool data centres, I don’t think Google…
Continue ReadingBulmer weighs in
Kevin Bulmer is probably one of the best economic developers in the Maritimes – at least from a strategic perspective. He weighs in today on economic development in NB. If the politicians and business leaders in the province read and…
Continue ReadingCity of Moncton has new Manager
It`s been almost a year since Al Strang quit so I am glad this decision has been taken. Jacques Dube has considerable economic development background so there shouldn’t be much education needed on that front.
Continue ReadingThe wisdom (or lack thereof) of crowds
Sometimes I get a headache in this business. Someone sent me the results of a resident survey in a community in the Maritime Provinces that recently lost a major employer (forest products). The Council sent out a survey to ask…
Continue ReadingTourism marketing tip
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…
Continue ReadingCanada and the world
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…
Continue ReadingMojo Rising
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…
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