My wife pointed out yesterday the obituary of a woman we knew from church. She was a nice lady and lived a long and seemingly happy life. But as I read the obit it was amazing to see that every…
Continue ReadingI feel a fish story coming on
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat every day. The following is taken from a summary of the Federal budget: Federal support for provinces and territories…
Continue ReadingWhither ACOA?
This is from APEC’s commentary on the federal budget: The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) is being given $19 million per year, starting in 2010-2011, to extend its Atlantic Innovation Fund (which provides funding for businesses and research institutes to…
Continue ReadingThrone speech and economic development
Like most throne speeches the one yesterday was vauge on details. However, there were a few interesting points related to economic development. To fuel the ingenuity of Canada’s best and brightest and bring innovative products to market, our Government will…
Continue ReadingGoogle, Kansas
The mayor of Kansas’s capital has unofficially changed his city’s name to Google. The decision to change Topeka’s name to Google was made via a proclamation signed at a city council meeting on Monday. In the proclamation, Mayor Bill Bunten…
Continue ReadingRetention: economic development’s blob
Do you remember that old movie The Blob with Steve McQueen? It flashes through my mind these days whenever I hear an economic development official talk about ‘retention’. A few years ago, this notion of ‘retention’ started to become popular. …
Continue ReadingAn interesting example
I listen each week to New Books in History – a really interesting podcast that someone on this blog alerted me to a while ago. This week’s podcast is an interview with an historian from Nippising University in Ontario about…
Continue ReadingMetal bashing revival
CP is reporting that Daewoo is looking to take over TrentonWorks and the Nova Scotia government just gave a $20 million loan to the Halifax Shipyard to help it expand. Both of these projects (the first one has not been…
Continue ReadingWhere’s Sheila?
I liked Sheila Copps in an Elizabethian Weir kind of way. The kind where you disagree with them on most ideas and policies but like them as persons and as political figures. Some people are just likeable – both Copps…
Continue ReadingAs goes the downtown….
There seems to be a growing number of vacant buildings in downtown Moncton. I walk from home to the downtown for meetings a few times a week and it is becoming quite noticable. I read that Downtown Moncton Inc. is…
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