This is pretty juicy stuff. I think I’ll write it up in my TJ column soon but I’ll give you a sneak preview. The recent release from the 2006 Census provides some interesting data for consideration by economic development professionals.…
Continue ReadingLinking social and economic development
I heard on the radio this am a ‘social’ advocacy group in Saint John decrying any attempts by NB Power to ‘subsidize’ large power users on the backs of residential and small business users. While the fleeting glance at this…
Continue ReadingEasier to spend money than to make it
I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me. But it’s kind of funny how the Liberal government can ‘transform’ the way it delivers social services, creating a new Department of Social Development and hiring a new deputy minister with an expertise…
Continue ReadingInvestment attraction vs. entrepreneurs
I just read the printed version in the TJ of my treatise on the need for NB to attract more multinationals. Aside from my use of ‘are’ in the place of ‘our’ (I write a lot but make this mistake…
Continue ReadingDavid Adams Richards weighs in
David Adams Richards has a piece in the Globe & Mail today on the troubles in the Miramichi. It’s a harsh take – a rebuke of foreign ownership – and has a thread of despair. I can’t link to it…
Continue ReadingThe End of an Era
I like the title of Shipley’s piece on the permanent closure of the UPM mill in the Miramichi today in the TJ. He calls it the “end of an era”. There are several definitions for ‘era’ but the one I…
Continue ReadingNB Biz Council
I have said this before and I remain delicate in my commentary but I am beginning to think that the New Brunswick Business Council is now actively trying to undermine efforts to attract industry to New Brunswick. I honestly don’t…
Continue ReadingOdds & ends
Not much on the radar this morning. I read that interesting story in the TJ about David Booth, a senior executive at Computer Sciences Corporation and his ties to New Brunswick. He’s a Mount Allison graduate and a Moncton native.…
Continue ReadingNew Brunswick: It could be worse
Alec Bruce. That’s it. By now the mention of those two words in sequence should be enough. No commentary necessary. Here’s his take on the branding of New Brunswick.
Continue ReadingDo you speak Spanish, yet?
I was reading MacLean’s magazine last night and came across an advertising supplement for distance learning in Canada. Several pages of writing and numerous advertisments – not one mention of New Brunswick or New Brunswick post secondary education institutions (or…
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