Ignatieff cautions Maritimes about transfer discontent Contender for federal Liberal leadership says region must not underestimate equalization payment concerns raised by central Canada. By Wayne ThibodeauThe GuardianAugust 21It’s hard for an academic to be successful in politics. They are just…
Continue ReadingThere is nothing new under the sun
What has been will be again,what has been done will be done again;there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 (New International Version) Listen to the old dog of economic development giving advice in 2006. Mr. Manuge was instrumental…
Continue ReadingEconomic development is dead
As you may know if you follow this blog a lot, I argue strenuously that the government should be much more involved – as the entity in society that represents us collectively – in the province’s economic development. Not through…
Continue ReadingWhat’s a Tory? Part 332
I know I have asked this somewhat rhetorical question a few times over the past two years each tim the Tories do a decidedly non conservative thing. But after crunching those job numbers the other day, I continued to wonder…
Continue ReadingN.B. not living up to R&D potential
It’s refreshing to actually get some economic stories in the Telegraph Journal. There was a good one today about the lack of health-related research going on in New Brunswick (we’re dead last in Canada by a wide margin). The article…
Continue ReadingDavid Frum on partisanship
David Frum is a guy who invokes a lot of passion one way or the other but I don’t think many people would disagree with his debut snippet on Starbuck’s coffee: I just think that in the current New Brunswick…
Continue ReadingWhen home is not where the jobs are
The Globe & Mail series on the labour shortage in Canada is pretty friggin’ sobering. Today’s article profiles efforts by the Newfoundland government to encourage Stephenville workers to move out west for a few months and then come back and…
Continue ReadingMaybe my paranoia is finally kicking in
Am I going crazy or what? I can’t find any reference in the Times & Transcript to one of the most important economic development stories in decades. As I reported a few days ago: Headz Gamez International has announced plans…
Continue ReadingTell Somebody, please
I thought this was neat. It’s a bit like the shampoo commercial. You tell two friends, and they’ll tell two friends, and so on. If someone from Hoyt moves to Edmonton, now City Hall wants that person to get his…
Continue ReadingI’m not backing down on this one
It’s unanimous. Everyone including a lot of Liberals think Shawn Graham’s strategy to bring in some top talent from outside the province to reinvigorate the civil service is bad politics. Notice I said politics – most still say it may…
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