Ouch. The CBC is reporting this. Exactly one year ago: “The government is proud to support SalesBridge as it continues to grow,” Brad Green said. “The company is providing hundreds of highly skilled, well-paying positions for New Brunswickers. Its latest…
Continue ReadingT&T works more of its magic
The Times & Transcript is one of the only newspapers that you will ever read that can turn what should be a serious and sobering economic or demographic statistics into good news. Of course, this only applies to the provincial…
Continue ReadingFidelity invests big in North Carolina
Last year, Fidelity was rumoured to be looking at Nova Scotia for a very large project. If this (below) is the project, one suspects that the $34,500 per job created in North Carolina would have been a prohibitive factor in…
Continue ReadingDeclining population means less kids in school
Check this out. Another demographic reality for you to chew on. It is a Statistics Canada study out today on education trends in Canada. Here are a few highlights: Enrolment in elementary and secondary schools in New Brunswick has dropped…
Continue ReadingWe’re not alone
Sometimes it is comforting to know that other countries face similar economic challenges. Consider the UK for one. A new study published about regional economic development in the UK sounds frightenly like Canada. Here are some highlights with my comments:…
Continue ReadingIreland is boomin’
You know sometimes what we talk about is a little abstracted from the general public. When an economic boom hits the average Joe Q. Public so that everyone is talking about it – it must be real. My wife coming…
Continue ReadingRiddle me this
Is Peter Mesheau a traitor to the Tory cause or lending a helping hand? One thing’s for sure, the NB Tories lately like to provide lots of drama. Remember the Tanker affair? Hard to forget. He quit. He was castigated.…
Continue ReadingA win-win partnership
I hear that the NB Liberals are coming out with their strategy for ‘moose fencing’ today. After reading the study on declining birth rates due mainly to the out-migration of young females to provinces such as Alberta, I had one…
Continue ReadingKeep it, Preston
Preston Manning has an editorial in the Globe & Mail this a.m. arguing that Alberta already gives enough to the rest of Canada. Any discussion of ‘redistributing’ the province’s petrodollars to correct fiscal imbalances is misguided, he says (can’t give…
Continue ReadingOops, Principles? What Principles?
Remember the recent crisis in the Legislature when the NB Liberals were trying to bring down the ruling Tories? Remember how definitive the Premier was about the October 2007 election date? Don’t forget he prefers fixed election dates. Remember Al…
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