David Adams Richards has a piece in the Globe & Mail today on the troubles in the Miramichi. It’s a harsh take – a rebuke of foreign ownership – and has a thread of despair. I can’t link to it…
Continue ReadingThe End of an Era
I like the title of Shipley’s piece on the permanent closure of the UPM mill in the Miramichi today in the TJ. He calls it the “end of an era”. There are several definitions for ‘era’ but the one I…
Continue ReadingNB Biz Council
I have said this before and I remain delicate in my commentary but I am beginning to think that the New Brunswick Business Council is now actively trying to undermine efforts to attract industry to New Brunswick. I honestly don’t…
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Not much on the radar this morning. I read that interesting story in the TJ about David Booth, a senior executive at Computer Sciences Corporation and his ties to New Brunswick. He’s a Mount Allison graduate and a Moncton native.…
Continue ReadingNew Brunswick: It could be worse
Alec Bruce. That’s it. By now the mention of those two words in sequence should be enough. No commentary necessary. Here’s his take on the branding of New Brunswick.
Continue ReadingDo you speak Spanish, yet?
I was reading MacLean’s magazine last night and came across an advertising supplement for distance learning in Canada. Several pages of writing and numerous advertisments – not one mention of New Brunswick or New Brunswick post secondary education institutions (or…
Continue ReadingMass targeted marketing
I’ll let you in on a little secret. I don’t consider myself a ‘marketer’. Yes, I have worked with a couple of dozen economic develpment agencies on ‘marketing’ their communities, but I am not schooled in the finer points of…
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The TJ has a story today about potential new funds to help Dalhousie transition from the latest mill closure. It’s federal money with this description: The fund is available to companies that create jobs, to entrepreneurs looking to start businesses,…
Continue ReadingIrving expands New York operation
Was this mentioned in the local papers? Irving Tissue, Inc., the second largest employer in Washington County, New York, received a $600,000 grant to support its estimated $34.6 million expansion of its operations. According to this article, the company had…
Continue ReadingWe need an IT industry association
I read up a bit on that group in Maine that is trying to get the government to set up a VC fund for technology firms. As I reflected on this, I once again felt the level of my frustration…
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