Someone told me today that he hears the provincial Liberals are thinking about calling an election this year. The idea is to get a new mandate out front of a few potentially difficult years and provincial budgets. It’s an interesting…
Continue ReadingMann, now you talkin’
From the TJ today: Tom Mann says it’s time to make New Brunswick’s public pension plans work for the entire province by turning the public dollars into government bonds that will keep money in the province instead of investing in…
Continue ReadingPeople love moving to Canada
HSBC Bank International’s “Expat Explorer Survey” was done to find out what countries are favorable for expatriates, how well they adjust to local conditions and how well they become friends with the locals. The study surveyed 2,155 expats from 48…
Continue ReadingLooking at R&D, again
Nice article in the TJ today about R&D in New Brunswick and the role of an organization called Springboard and its role in commercialization of research. But what is annoying about these types of articles is that they tell a…
Continue ReadingOn Quebec Sovereignty
The secret to Quebec separation from Canada, it seems to me is simple. I had this thought again as I read this article about how Quebec would be better able to weather the recession if it was a separate country. I…
Continue ReadingFor those of you who appreciate irony….
This is a fascinating thing for me to behold: Tom Mann, executive director of the New Brunswick Union said the government needs to look for ways to generate revenue – such as highway tolls – rather than cuts to the…
Continue ReadingThe death (or dearth?) of manufacturing
Stats Canada came out yesterday with a study on the decline of manufacturing in Canada. Being the lemmings that we are and the fact that the media in Canada is edited by Geraldo these days, this type of study leads…
Continue ReadingYour daily laugh
I laughed out loud when I saw this. It’s Maclean’s magazine’s attempt to show what $500,000 gets you for a house in major markets across Canada. Look at Moncton and then at Hamilton. I went in and did a little…
Continue ReadingStimulating job creation
It will be interesting to see the New Brunswick budget in March and see if there are any programs designed to create private sector jobs. I have been tracking US state budgets and many of them are adding new incentive…
Continue ReadingNuclear industry: An Opportunity?
I just finished a podcast while shovelling my driveway on the growth prospects for the nuclear industry over the next decade or so. Apparently, there are 104 nuclear power projects in the U.S. at some stage of the regulatory process…
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