It's The Economy, Stupid

There is a great article in the American Prospect this week on the Richard Florida cult and how he is modifying his views. He has been chargin $35,000 per talk to tell every small and medium sized community across North…

The Globe & Mail has an interesting story today on Harper’s plans to try and get senate reform back on the docket.  Apparently, Atl. Canadians are outraged.  Premier Dexter will fight the good fight. In Atlantic Canada, where the provinces…

I have been avoiding commenting on the NB Power deal because there are a few people that get all bent out of joint and send me really nasty comments and I don’t appreciate the abuse.  There have been some interesting…

There are a few constants in life: death, taxes and the CFIB opposing increases to the minimum wage.  After having studied this issue in detail, I remain convinced of two things: 1) the government should have a competitive minimum wage (compared…

I have read several ‘outlook for 2010’ articles relating to Northern New Brunswick that were surprisingly positive.  I think one was even titled something like ‘big things for Miramichi in 2010’ or similar.  I hope so – I really do. In…

I only met him a couple of times – he invited me to lunch one time to talk about economic development when he was an opposition MLA.  I think he was certainly one of the Liberals strongest Cabinet ministers and I…

Back in the office today after nearly two weeks away.  I missed most of the media while out of the country so I spent sometime over the weekend looking at recent articles (online) and I can’t find a whole lot…

I wasn’t able to keep up with the news as I should have while I was away the last two weeks but I see now that our old friend Al Hogan had a little bomb shell to lob over the…

IBM is out with its latest report on global location trends.   I don’t think it will come as any surprise that of the roughly 22,000 jobs created in Canada from foreign companies in 2008, Ontario and Quebec accounted for about…