I’ll let you in on a little secret. I don’t consider myself a ‘marketer’. Yes, I have worked with a couple of dozen economic develpment agencies on ‘marketing’ their communities, but I am not schooled in the finer points of…
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The TJ has a story today about potential new funds to help Dalhousie transition from the latest mill closure. It’s federal money with this description: The fund is available to companies that create jobs, to entrepreneurs looking to start businesses,…
Continue ReadingIrving expands New York operation
Was this mentioned in the local papers? Irving Tissue, Inc., the second largest employer in Washington County, New York, received a $600,000 grant to support its estimated $34.6 million expansion of its operations. According to this article, the company had…
Continue ReadingWe need an IT industry association
I read up a bit on that group in Maine that is trying to get the government to set up a VC fund for technology firms. As I reflected on this, I once again felt the level of my frustration…
Continue ReadingPredictable Al Hogan
I can’t be too wordy this morning, I am running off to the kid’s Christmas concert but a couple of things. One, Al Hogan served another softball up to the Libs this morning in the editorial. You have to agree…
Continue ReadingAn interesting model for technology companies
Maine is looking to set up a $100 million VC fund. Here’s the summary: Technology advocates in Maine want the state to set up a $100 million venture capital fund. To support this endeavor, Sen. Peter Mills, (R-Skowhegan) is sponsoring…
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I get four or five posts a day from our anonymous friend. The vast majority are not PG rated. This one is. I thought you might like to know some of his thinking. It’s a bit obtuse to say the…
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Nothing like Fraser coming along and telling you what I have been saying for years. But than again, I don’t have the brand of Fraser, now do I? A Fraser Institute report recently ranked New Brunswick’s small business creation rate…
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Who’d a thunk it? Out-migration to Bangor, Maine? Nearly all of Bangor’s black foreign immigrant population in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was from Canada — Fredericton, Kingsclear and Woodstock, New Brunswick, according to Maureen Elgersman Lee in…
Continue ReadingLeveraging the university
This is interesting. Memorial University’s Harris Centre’s aim is to help the community at large tap into the resources of Memorial University, including the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College campus in Corner Brook, in order to help develop the economy and…
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