Canadian Business magazine recently ranked Moncton as the best city for business in Canada (outside Quebec – two small cities in that province had better scores). Regardless of the fact that their methodology was biased in favour of small cities…
Continue ReadingColgate-Palmolive to close Moncton warehouse
Consumer products maker Colgate-Palmolive Co. plans to cut its worldwide work force by about 12 per cent and their Moncton warehouse will be closed by the end of April 2005. It is an especially hard pill to swallow when a…
Continue ReadingPEI drops below NB for educational performance
As you may have read in the paper yesterday, Canada’s students scored quite well in the recent international comparison of educational outcomes. The 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) prepared by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)…
Continue ReadingNew construction underperforming in New Brunswick
The value of building permits issued in a jurisdiction is generally considered to be a good indicator of whether or not an economy is growing or declining. Building permits are issued when there is new construction (either residential or commercial)…
Continue ReadingJoin our Fight! Save the Miramichi!
I was in the Miramichi this weekend and was somewhat surprised to see signs all over the city stating emphatically Join our Fight! Save the Miramichi. In addition to these Union-sponsored billboards, other businesses and organizations have posted variations on…
Continue ReadingTargets? What Targets?
Anybody remember the Prosperity Plan? You know, think hard. It’s that potentially-bothersome-document-that-the-media-has-forgot-about Prosperity Plan that was launched with great fanfare a few years ago and held up by the Premier on occasion (although they are mentioning it less and less…
Continue ReadingImportance of media impartiality
When I heard yesterday that the provincial government paid to send newspaper journalists to France with the Premier recently that provided clarity to something that had been bothering me about that trip. In the past – you have to go…
Continue ReadingThe truth about tax cuts
So it looks like we are in for another tiny personal income tax cut. The Premier has hinted this will be part of his next budget. Now might be a good time to debunk this issue once and for all.…
Continue ReadingPogie dependency rising in New Brunswick
The latest figures from Statistics Canada reveal that the number of New Brunswickers claiming employment insurance (EI) benefits in September was up 2.3% compared to last year while nationally the number is down 7.4%. But these numbers don’t begin to…
Continue ReadingAdvice for the new CEO of Enterprise Greater Moncton
Enterprise Greater Moncton, the organization that is mandated to coordinated economic development in the region, is expected to announce they have hired a new CEO sometime this week. The position has been vacant for five months after the former CEO,…
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