I laughed out loud when I saw this. It’s Maclean’s magazine’s attempt to show what $500,000 gets you for a house in major markets across Canada. Look at Moncton and then at Hamilton. I went in and did a little…
Continue ReadingStimulating job creation
It will be interesting to see the New Brunswick budget in March and see if there are any programs designed to create private sector jobs. I have been tracking US state budgets and many of them are adding new incentive…
Continue ReadingNuclear industry: An Opportunity?
I just finished a podcast while shovelling my driveway on the growth prospects for the nuclear industry over the next decade or so. Apparently, there are 104 nuclear power projects in the U.S. at some stage of the regulatory process…
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Personal confession time. Since university I haven’t had anything like a ‘mentor’. I’ve had good and talented bosses and colleagues that I would debate well into the evening on issues of interest but no one that I can identify as…
Continue ReadingScar Tissue
The ICT industry is a tricky one from an economic development perspective. Because the industry is a perfect example of Joseph Schumpeter’s process of ‘creative destruction’ you get a lot of failure. In fact, I read once that most VCs…
Continue ReadingEt voila
I guess when we want to know what BNB is up to we will have to put Rebecca Penty on the case. Her story in the TJ this morning outlines what BNB has been doing to protect the Oracle operation…
Continue ReadingAG releases his report
New Brunswick’s auditor general is out with his latest report. It’s almost 200 pages worth of mostly data on the provincial books. I am still going through it but page 48 is interesting. That is where you will find a…
Continue ReadingOn Whitehill
It seemed to me that Whitehill was always based on a fairly terminal business model. When you are basically a one-trick software pony the more successful you are the more likely it is that someone will buy you out or…
Continue ReadingIcelandic emigration
I hear that Manitoba is getting set for another wave of immigrants from Iceland following the economic collapse. Apparently this happened once before and a number of Icelanders settled in Manitoba. I have always wanted to go to Iceland. They…
Continue ReadingFredericton, Ontario’s broadband revolution!
Hey, it looks like broadband in Fredericton has resulted in the city attracting “numerous companies”. This is from a U.S. columnist who apparently knows all about Fredericton and its broadband: I expect some people will be pretty surprised in a…
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