CBC is reporting on a new Stats Can report: New Brunswick’s birth rate declined by 2.2 per cent between 2003-2004, according to a Statistics Canada report released Monday.Leslie Geran, a Statistics Canada analyst, said young adults are moving to other…
Continue ReadingDis-Service New Brunswick
Is it just an inevitability that government can’t provide good customer service? I’m in line at the SNB in Moncton. For years I have used SNB and have always been very impressed at the speed and efficiency. Not any more.…
Continue ReadingLet’s blow this popsicle stand
Interesting article in the T&T this A.M. (I can’t give you a URL because you have to pay). It’s about the migration of workers to Alberta. In usual style, Al Hogan doesn’t mention the Premier by name at all and…
Continue ReadingThe Meek Shall Inherit… the inkwell
Who is this Jim Meek? He is described as a freelance writer in Halifax (and works for Bristol Communications). He has been serving up a steady diet of thought-provoking articles dealing with the lack of economic development in the region.…
Continue ReadingDonald Savoie getting cranky?
I like to read through the Halifax Chronicle-Herald – mostly because it’s a breath of fresh air compared to the local rag here in Moncton. There was an interesting article about the need for economic growth in Atlantic Canada. But…
Continue ReadingNow we know an election must be coming
There’s a story in today’s Daily Gleaner about the province putting 50 new government jobs in Edmundston. That’s a sure sign that an election must be coming soon. I have said before that where it makes sense, I think the…
Continue ReadingFixing the fiscal imbalance
The Premiers couldn’t agree this week on a unified position on fixing the ‘fiscal imbalance’. There are basically three broad approaches that were put foward (and hybrids of all of them): The fiscal imbalance is between the ‘rich’ and the…
Continue ReadingWhere power lies
This is interesting. CHICAGO (Reuters)—Chicago’s city council Wednesday passed one of the nation’s strictest “living wage” laws, requiring large retailers to pay escalating hourly wages and benefits.Opponents said they would challenge the ordinance in court, arguing that it unfairly singles…
Continue Reading40% is a lot
Maclean’s magazine’s online poll asks the question: Should the fiscal imbalance make tax revenues continue to be transferred from rich to poor provinces to ensure equal public services across Canada? At 8 am this morning, 40% said no. Now, they…
Continue ReadingPop Quiz: What do rural NB and Europe have in common?
I’m thinking of transforming this blog into a gossip rag. You know, keep the theme but reorient around juicy gossip. You see, I am getting more and more little emails with interesting tidbits of information. For example, I just heard…
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