I know a lot of economic developers don’t like talking about direct measurement because they, rightly, say there are too many broader environmental issues that impact economic development and that broader environment will skew the results (up or down) of…
Continue ReadingNB employment growth second slowest in Canada over past year
From the latest labour force survey out today. It’s the same story. The Canadian economy churns out 109,000 new jobs in the past month and NB churns out 800 of them. These are the year over year employment growth numbers…
Continue ReadingThe problem with real time
My rental car yesterday had satellite radio so I enjoyed a mix of CNBC, Bloomberg News and BBC News for the five hours I was driving around NB. In the middle of the afternoon I got a fascinating example of…
Continue ReadingGood looking project for NB
http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/bnb/2010e0673bn.htm This looks like a good project for NB but I have never heard of BNB using payroll rebates before. I can’t find any other references to it before. Is this new? What is the program about? What are the…
Continue ReadingNB Power: A Random Thought
I know people are getting fatigued about this but it does continue to dominant the low level conversation around here because it was one of those once-every-10-years policy debates. My random thought is this. Why did they announce what customer…
Continue ReadingThe problem of NB Power’s debt
During the debate over NB Power, a number of people that disagreed with me used the argument that the large industrial users were the problem and if they could be purged, it would be far better for the system. One…
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