Pop quiz. In the USA, where do the $1.3 Billion, 2,500 high paying jobs auto plant manufacturers set up? Here in the one of the most rural areas of Georgia. A place with a population of 3,000 people. How do…
Continue ReadingVindication, again
My position that the government should strategically invest in key sectors to stimulate their growth can come under fire by folks posting to this blog and by a larger group of journalist and experts who bristle at the notion of…
Continue ReadingReversing Fortunes
It would seem that Saint John is finally on a roll. After getting something like six Ministers in the new Liberal government and the announcement of that new refinery project (possible), now they get this. You can’t buy publicity like…
Continue ReadingSpeak up sonny, I cain’t hear yah!
I must be getting old. I have been missing a few juicy bloggable topics in the past week or so. Like this. According to Statistics Canada, only Newfoundland and Labrador has a lower percentage of young people in its population.…
Continue ReadingNeed a new term for ‘strong economy’
I have heard or read a number of economists, journalists and politicians talk in the past few weeks about New Brunswick’s ‘strong economy’ generating low unemployment and pushing up wages. It may have been true in the early 1990s that…
Continue ReadingBig pharma in Moncton?
Monctonlandlord brought this article to my attention in another post. In an online news source for the pharmaceutical industry, it quotes the recent KPMG study and mentions Moncton as one of the most cost effective places to manufacturing drugs in…
Continue ReadingQuebec nation
I have to admit some confusion over the English media’s rush to poo poo any thought of a Quebec ‘nation’ within the ‘country’ of Canada. These paragons of intellectualism fear that this will lead to more handouts and powers for…
Continue ReadingSunday night, feeling old & tired
I just got done listening to a little bit of Cross Country Checkup on CBC. Rex is in Newfoundland and the program is on out-migration from – essentially the Atl. Provinces to central and western Canada. I just had to…
Continue ReadingUrban cowboys, rural slickers – always made sense to me
I have been saying on this blog and in conversation for the past 10 years that we need to build better linkages between rural and urban populations and that this will be critical to stopping depopulation particularly in New Brunswick…
Continue ReadingEconomic development can be simple, it really can
According to the article below Ubisoft is having a tough time recruiting video game developers in Montreal. I happen to know a few video game developers and while they are a unique breed, the skills they have can be taught.…
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