It's The Economy, Stupid

There is an excellent article in the Economist this week in the rise of unmanned drones for civilian use.   I was particularly interested to read that many U.S. cities are trying to convince the FAA to make them one  of…

The old song warned that “video killed the radio star”.  While it may have looked like that might happen at the time – when MTV, et. al. roared on the scene – the death of radio was greatly exaggerated.  In…

From a recent column I wrote in the TJ.  This is an issue I think needs far more discussion.  I recently had a long talk with a person involved in economic development in southern Ontario who was ranting and raving…

I just watched the video that was prepared for the Opportunity 2000 conference that was held in Moncton – I think it was in 1989 – 25 years ago.   The music, clothes, cars, etc. in that video look ancient but…

You want to know one of the  main reasons why the Maritimes economy has underperformed the rest of Canada.  Read this article.  Rarely in the history of man has anyone gotten the cause and effect relationship so twisted around. A Halifax…

Dominic Cardy would scrap the Department of Economic Development and put the money into ‘small business’.  Brian Gallant is planning to make New Brunswick the Smart Province.  Premier Alward is chipping away. What we need to know is the strategy…

It is kind of interesting to see the little rift within the journalism community over shale gas development.   The Philip Lee / Halifax Media Co-op dust up is a good example. I wrote a bit about this a while ago…

My column this morning in the TJ discussed an idea that I have been kicking around in recent months.  We know that a lot of really bright young New Brunswickers leave the province because they “can’t find a good job…

Just about every time there is a new jobs announcement (there were two this week related to IT companies expanding in New Brunswick), I’ll either get disgruntled emails, have cranky conversations or read about why this is a bad thing…

From a recent column in the TJ: A few months ago Nadine Duguay, Executive Director of 21 Inc., asked me if I would be interested in speaking at the Emerging Leaders Summit. The 50 Emerging Leaders program is an initiative…