I’m too cheap to spend the $20 bucks to get this report but Alberta media is reporting on it. A new study says Alberta’s economic boom is making it harder for businesses in Atlantic Canada to find workers. The Atlantic…
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For the blog regulars, you may want to skip this one. It is more oriented to the few new people that have been tuning in but have not read the 1093 previous blogs. For regulars, divert yourself by reading Feschuk’s…
Continue ReadingRanting and raving like a lunatic
Sorry folks. Another rant this AM. I have tried to avoid them but after reading a series of stories out of Ontario and Alberta last week, I feel compelled. It seems to me that we have deeply embedded in our…
Continue ReadingProfessionalism in blogs?
Good luck with that. Robert Cox wants to bring some professionalism to the blogosphere. As president of the Media Bloggers Association, Cox is about to unveil new membership policies designed to help bloggers who see themselves more as journalists than…
Continue ReadingNew R&D statistics
Statistics Canada just released its latest data on federal government R&D spending in the provinces. The good news for New Brunswick is that spending is up. However, as the table below shows, we are still dead last in Canada. Remember…
Continue ReadingA paradigm shift
I don’t like this term. I first ran across it in university reading Thomas Kuhn’s 1971 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In that book, Kuhn was trying to describe how science and scientists get into ‘paradigms’ or fundamental beliefs that…
Continue ReadingDeath, taxes & gravy for Central Canadian firms
As human beings, we like familiarity. Most of us like routine. We take the same route to work. We watch the same TV programs each week. A certain blogger repeats the same old mantra on a daily basis. When I…
Continue ReadingDion thinks Monctonians are ignorant
You won’t read this in the Paul Wells’ Stephane Dion Love-In Blog. All politicians need to ensure that they are not overly offensive in their public statements (or the statements of their spouses). It’s not a good idea to offend…
Continue ReadingLord says goodbye
I have stated on many occasions that I have considerable respect for people that get into public life. I am certainly not one of those people that believes all politicians are crooks and liars. I can say that because I…
Continue ReadingRevenge!
Maybe, maybe. No, we won’t share our gold revenues with Alberta. This just in. Shawn Graham now sides with Danny Williams and calls for natural resource revenue to be removed from the Equalization calculation. Just daydreaming…..
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