It's The Economy, Stupid

I was talking with a business owner earlier this week who told me half his staff wanted to be laid off.  Why not?  They are worried about Covid-19.  They see their friends and family all off work – many furloughed…

When Matt George approached me about the potential of doing a weekly podcast I wasn’t particularly convinced.  There are now thousands of podcasts out there – many of them pretty good – why would anyone want to spend 45 minutes…

The editorial in the Telegraph-Journal this morning called for a complete dismantling of Opportunities New Brunswick. It’s probably a good time to think about what is the best model for economic development in a smaller province such as New Brunswick.…

I know some people are annoyed about this and think that the developers are just going to pocket the money. Here’s the bottom line.  New Brunswick brought in 6,000 immigrants last year.  I am convinced we will push through 10,000…

I was unaware until today that Statistics Canada publishes estimates of population by year between Census periods for municipalities – large and small.  I thought the agency only published population estimates for CMAs, CAs and for Census Divisions.  Yet, up…

There was an interesting story recently in the media about which province can claim to be the maple syrup capital of Canada. I would say the battle rages for the title of blueberry capital, too. I was re watching The…