The soup bone quote from Gair Maxwell in this column today about the launch of a youth entrepreneur program. It seems to be a reality TV kind of program backed by the Canadian Youth Business Foundation. It’s about playing in…
Continue ReadingCash-based incentives least attractive
Once in a while one of my longstanding hunches gets validated with statistics. The following chart is taken from the 23rd annual site selection survey of corporate professionals put out by Area Development magazine. The people surveyed are mostly the…
Continue ReadingSymapathy for politicians
Once in a while I truly feel sympathy for politicians. They get hammered right and left in the press, blogs and Tim Horton talk. I guess they know that going in and in fact the personality type for many of…
Continue ReadingLexi-tech purchased by Swiss firm
Lexi-tech International, a communications and translation provider originally based out of Moncton, is now a division of Switzerland-based CLS Communication AG. CLC Communication creates and translates content in various languages for corporations across the world, specializing in the financial and…
Continue ReadingA quick word on economic impact
I just wanted to make a quick point this morning about economic impact. This stems from a conversation I had a few weeks ago with someone that owned a company in the proivnce. They were talking about how a specific…
Continue ReadingI heart Norway
From th TJ this morning: Executives revealed Thursday the company plans to spend $700 million on a facility with the capacity to produce an annual output of 5,000 tonnes of polycrystalline silicon – a base material used to make solar…
Continue ReadingMaine and green energy
I know very little about the mechanics or even the business model for most of these novel green energy ideas but this one looks interesting. Riverbank Power; a new start-up founded by a former wind developer who wants to develop…
Continue ReadingBig fish/small fish
It’s a slow news day so I thought I’d serve up a few statistics for your edification. The data below is based on Statistics Canada’s Canadian Business Patterns which keeps track of the number and size of businesses in over…
Continue ReadingTax relief in a dangerous time
The Moody’s briefing on New Brunswick (read the brief here and the TJ article here) gave three reasons for the province’s weak near term revenue outlook: the recession, the tax cuts and what they term as risks associated with the…
Continue ReadingWhat is Equalization?
We have dicussed this ad nauseum on this blog over the past few years but I still think that it remains a valid question. To some, Equalization is a perfectly legitimate – and if you remember former Premier Lord’s fiery…
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