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New Brunswick is not too rural, it is not urban enough

Posted on May 31, 2012 by David Campbell

There is a pervasive view that in order for New Brunswick to grow it has to empty  its rural population into its urban centres.  We are too rural and that is the problem we are told. Once again many people…

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Yanks have a statutory federal program designed to “avoid undue concentration of research” in the big urban centres

Posted on May 30, 2012 by David Campbell

Good golly, Miss Molly. We heard about an interesting program today.  It’s the U.S. Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).  The mission of EPSCoR is: “to assist the National Science Foundation in its statutory function “to strengthen research…

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Economic development delayed is economic development denied?

Posted on May 30, 2012 by David Campbell

I have to admit feeling quite blue when I read that SWN is postponing its seismic testing for natural gas until 2016.  I guess we all knew it was coming given the price of gas right now but it is…

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ACOA should do the right thing with their CEDA funding

Posted on May 30, 2012 by David Campbell

I like ACOA and I, in fact, do work occasionally for the agency and find the people very professional.  I hope I will continue to do work for the organization in the future. But I think they are treating the CEDAs badly…

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Getting out of Dodge at the wrong time

Posted on May 29, 2012 by David Campbell

I’m in Boston all week on a course looking at innovation as an economic development driver.  I haven’t formally taken courses in a few years and I felt now was a good time and this was an important subject. However,…

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People moving out but animals moving in

Posted on May 27, 2012 by David Campbell

It’s interesting to see the animals moving into New Brunswick.  The wild turkey population is reaching a level that there is interest in starting a hunting season.  A few weeks ago, a cougar was caught in a trap near Sussex…

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Clarifying EI usage

Posted on May 24, 2012 by David Campbell

I want to clear up an important statistic.  People are now widely using the 110,000 figure to talk about the number of NBers who collect Employment Insurance each year.  That is the correct number but there are two points to…

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If you build it, they might come? (musing on broadband investments)

Posted on May 22, 2012 by David Campbell

My TJ column tomorrow discusses the fact that New Brunswick has pervasive broadband Internet ‘access’ (i.e. availability) but the lowest percentage of households ‘accessing’ it.  If you strip out the urban areas of Moncton, Fredericton and Saint John, the percentage…

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The limits to migration

Posted on May 21, 2012 by David Campbell

I have been thinking a lot lately about the limits to migration.  With the revelation that the federal government has been asking Atlantic Canadians what it would take to get them to move out of their communities to where the…

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Retail and economic development

Posted on May 21, 2012 by David Campbell

I’ve never been a big fan of the retail sector as an economic development focus.  I was reminded of this fact after reading this article discuss the great length communities are going to in their desire to attract Apple Stores.  …

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