For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.-Matthew 6:21 Anybody know how many new economic developers have been hired by the province in the past couple of years? I haven’t looked at it in several years and…
Continue ReadingWindsor, Ontario mayor hears a Who
I took the kids to Horton Hears a Who over the weekend. It’s standard kid movie fare but the plot centers around the Mayor of Whoville. The way the Council handles the ‘in-camera’ session is worth the price of admission.…
Continue ReadingIt’s the Economy, Stupid Podcast – Week 4
Here is the podcast version of It’s the economy, stupid for Week 4 – keep the feedback coming.
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Responding to my post earlier this week about a Centreville firm joint venture in China, a poster sent a really nasty reply related the good TJ story on the subject. In it, the writer states: Thomas Equipment Inc. has inked…
Continue ReadingCodiac, New Brunswick is a safe place to live
Maclean’s has its list of safest and most crime ridden municipalities in this week’s edition. Apparently they took the top 100 municipalities by population and cross referenced them against the RCMP crime database. The problem is that the RCMP coverage…
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Just took a quick look at the 2008-2009 NB budget. Read the summary here. Marginal increase to Business New Brunswick’s budget. Still only $7 million for ‘investment attraction’ and ‘export development’. Out of a $7 billion budget. That’s a nice…
Continue ReadingCities using the Web to engage
I stumbled across this blog, A Better Oakland, yesterday. It seems to me that a blog like this is a wonderful way to start engaging people in a wider discussion about their city and its development. Cities will spend hundreds…
Continue ReadingCentreville company going global
This does the heart some good. I don’t know the scope or scale of it but…. Thomas Equipment Inc., a company of Osiris Corporation (OSRS), announced that it entered into an agreement in principle for the production of Thomas Skid…
Continue ReadingHarper’s largess and other odds & ends
The folks in southern Ontario want Ottawa to shell out even more to prop up the auto sector there. Apparently, the $1.6 billion already announced in the past three years + all the new tax breaks has not been enough.…
Continue ReadingIt’s the Economy, Stupid Podcast – Week 3
Here is the weekly podcast. The format is getting better every week. Thank’s to Mike for the music and the tips. Weekly Podcast – March 16
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