My father used to say that Guy Lafleur was a great dipsy doodler (he also talked about the Savard ‘spinorama’ to describe Serge Savard’s legendary fake a slapshot, spin around and shoot again). In those days, I understood dipsy doodling…
Continue ReadingI can’t help it. I just can’t.
I can’t help it. I know a lot of you are growing weary of my negativism but I just can’t help it. Here are a few quotes from a recent Telegraph-Journal article on New Brunswick’s export performance in 2005: Naive…
Continue ReadingCluster-boys get another kick in the pants
For everyone of you cheese-eating, just-in-time inventory, integrated logistics, cluster-loving negative, uncreative economic developers out there, this one’s for you. I would be a millionaire today if I got a dollar for every time an economic developer, politician or Joe…
Continue ReadingThis is not about economic development, but I think a worthy blog topic. Here’s the top headline from the Globe & Mail today: Passport saved Canadian hostageHeld hostage at gunpoint by Palestinian extremists in the Gaza Strip, Mark Budzanowski feared…
Continue ReadingOn Harry Truman, Billionaires and Economic Development
I am reading the Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Harry Truman these days. I like to read the bios of transformational political leaders – either for good or bad – because I still think that transformational leadership is what we…
Continue ReadingThe natives are getting restless
There’s an article in the TJ today about a seminar in Fredericton yesterday about the ‘brain drain’ – the loss of university graduates to other provinces and the United States. A survey from the University of Prince Edward Island that…
Continue ReadingAl Hogan – Take comfort in this story
I usually don’t scrape content from other blogs but Paul Wells has an interesting post: World o’ Depressing News – By Paul Wells Big new U.S. study confirms all your hunches (you’ll need to sign up): • There is more…
Continue ReadingLord says money on its way from feds
Ah, politics. The Telegraph Journal is reporting today that Premier Lord says money on its way from feds with the ‘coming days’. Check out this text from the article: Without specifying what projects he was talking about, Mr. Lord said…
Continue ReadingUncle Joe gets a makeover
As an amateur student of 19th/20th century Russian and Soviet history, I am more than a little curious about the ongoing activities to rehabilitate Uncle Joe – Joseph Stalin. The CBC ran a story about this trend today on the…
Continue ReadingLabour market data reporting
Remember my post of yesterday? Check it out: Times & TranscriptRising unemployment has an upsideJody Carr, the provincial minister of post-secondary education and training, said the data illustrates that there is greater confidence in the economy.”I am also pleased that…
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