My column today looks at the tepid employment performance of the NB economy. While the media coverage has been sparse – New Brunswick’s three years of no new job creation should start to worry someone. According to Statistics…
Continue ReadingThe male unemployment rate is now 14% in New Brunswick
I don’t know if I am supposed to be distributing this labour market bulletin but it is a public federal government publication. Someone is good enough to send it to me so I pass it on to you. The year-over-year…
Continue ReadingArrogance or humility?
While it may seem like a peripheral issue, I think the need to achieve the right balance between confidence and humility is critical to successful economic development efforts. I see over-confidence all the time in my work with economic…
Continue ReadingAPEC on foreign investment prospects
I just finished listening to Bruce Cockburn’s newest album (or is it digital music release?). I know that he has gotten quite niche in his old age (translation he doesn’t sell as much as the Lovers in a Dangerous Time…
Continue ReadingIndeed, things are out of control
I had to sign after I read this article about health care in Saint John this morning. The provincial government spends $2.5 billion on public health care in New Brunswick. The average household in New Brunswick spends another…
Continue ReadingPond on ICT exports
Gerry Pond is right. The ICT industry needs to focus on companies that are building products and services for the export market. This is a variation on a theme that we have talked about many times here. If the…
Continue ReadingDrawing a solid line between A and B
I think this new report from the NBITC is helpful (full disclosure there are a few charts in there I had developed a couple of years ago) and show some almost startling data around the IT talent pipeline in New…
Continue ReadingSpreading the pain
I already received an email this morning complaining about call for tax increases this morning in the TJ. They seemed to have skipped right over the other ideas in the column. Look folks, New Brunswickers pay less income tax,…
Continue Reading‘Industrialization of our rural landscape”
Here’s a really good article in National Geographic about the efforts to develop the shale gas industry in New Brunswick. It focuses on the partnership between the Southwest Energy and their leading edge environmental efforts in New Brunswick. The…
Continue ReadingADHD is a predictor of entrepreneurship?
There’s a guy who writes a blog where he summarizes every day all the latest research into a wide variety of economic and social issues. I have it as one of my tabs when I open Google Chrome every…
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