My column this morning talks about our need to have a government and public service that can get beyond vested interests and do what it thinks is right for the wider public in the long term. The T&T has a…
Continue ReadingApocalyptic economic development
As I mentioned, I was listening to a podcast where Thomas Friedman sketched out a way to tackle global warming and generate the next wave of global economic growth. He ended his talk by saying it would take real leadership…
Continue ReadingDefending FDI
Low global demand for products fuelled by a worldwide economic downturn has forced management at the AV Nackawic mill to consider shutting the doors. It looks like this shutdown might be temporary but it is still an impact. Some folks,…
Continue ReadingThomas Friedman is an economic developer
I usually avoid wildly successful books about economics or self help and such because the few I have read turn out to be brain candy. The books are meant to be fun to read but you come away with a…
Continue ReadingThe new Pomegranate NS08 phone
I blogged about this before but I didn’t put the website. This has received national and international press and one expert calls it “a brilliant use of social media.” But as usual, the media needs to be ‘balanced’ and dregged…
Continue ReadingGoing global
As you know I have been calling for New Brunswick and/or Atl. Canada as a whole to have sales guys/gals in key foreign markets. And it now appears someone agrees with me. It always seemed a bit bizarre to me…
Continue ReadingOdds and ends
The latest employment numbers are out and the NB economy added 2,000 people to the employed ranks in October. But what is interesting is that 6,000 people entered the workforce. Looking at previous months this doesn’t seem to be any…
Continue Reading55 Random People
I got a really interesting email from a participant at the Ideas Festival. I didn’t ask permission to post their comments so I will leave them anonymous but I think you will find them interesting. My line:“Former NS Liberal leader…
Continue ReadingThe Buzz at the Ideas Festival
Live blogging again on my Blackberry. Buzz Hargrove wasn’t very inspiring yesterday. After his rants, he told us a story that was supposed to inspire us. He said he was fishing in BC and caught an Atlantic Salmon. He asked…
Continue ReadingThe economic thread
It’s hard to get away from it. There is an economic development thread throughout this Ideas Festival. Jacques Poitras talked with Michel Bastarache about the law and chronic under economic development performance in the Maritimes. Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson lamented in…
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