Awhile back someone on this blog put me on to the Council on Foreign Relations podcasts – and I have been listening to 4-5 of these every week since. If you want to talk about Ukraine and NATO or microfinance…
Continue ReadingWorkplace and Employee Survey Compendium
I know we have talked about this ad nauseum in this blog but there is another report out today from Statistics Canada that should once again raise the flag of caution about spending 95% of our economic development time trying…
Continue ReadingRob Moir puts forward interesting ideas
NDP candidate Rob Moir has at least two things going for him: 1) he is blogging and 2) he has some interesting ideas. The following is a response he made to my criticism of his distributed emails as not proffering…
Continue ReadingActivists of the world unite
My column today is likely to annoy environmentalists and community activists but what the hey. I happen to believe every word of it and would be happy to expound in greater detail if you like. Take Rob Moir, the NBP…
Continue ReadingBuilding a better sandbox
I have been keeping an eye on Indiana over the past few years – particularly after they landed the largest pharmaceutical benefits management (PBM) project I have ever seen – the HQ of Medco and 1,600 high paying jobs. In…
Continue ReadingThe famous pre-announcement
An enduring memory from the McKenna days. They would start by hinting a new project would be coming. Then they would announce the project at a press conference. Then they would have another press conference when the sod was turned…
Continue ReadingSomeone asked me to comment on the VW/Tennessee auto deal: Tennessee, for instance, has just disclosed that it agreed to give German carmaker Volkswagen $577m in incentives for its $1bn plant in Chattanooga. A senior executive at Fiat, the Italian…
Continue ReadingTBTF
If you have been following the U.S. financial crisis you will have heard this term – Too Big To Fail and its acronym TBTF. It refers to those huge, globally interconnected financial firms that if they went down would drag…
Continue ReadingSelf sufficiency – that slippery thing
Rorschach test. I am sorry to bring that up again but it seems that self-sufficiency can be defined as just about anything you want. Check out Marcel Mersereau definition: …..whether it be forward thinking and necessary environmental policy, better child…
Continue ReadingThe power of illusion
Quick. Guess the community in New Brunswick with the most IT workers. Wrong. 2006 CensusAll workers in Computer and information systems occupations (SOC C07)Fredericton – 1,645Moncton – 2,170SJ – 2,130 Of course Saint John and Moncton are bigger than Freddy…
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