Just another quick blog on this issue of average family income. Statistics Canada writes a 180 page report on the subject comparing average family income over the past ten years, adjusting it for inflation and segmenting by type of family.…
Continue ReadingIncome Challenges – this is important
You will recall that a key target in the Prosperity Plan was to reduce the income/wage gap with the rest of Canada. Well according to Statistics Canada, we are going in the wrong direction. In a new study out this…
Continue ReadingMore on Bombardier
The Globe & Mail is reporting that the Canadian, Quebec and UK governments will be giving Bombardier $700 million ($360M from Canada and $340M from the UK) to build the new flagship transcontinental C-Series Jets. 5,000 jobs will be created…
Continue ReadingSaint John, then and now
Just stumbled across an article that states in the 1860s “Saint John was the largest city in the Maritimes with about 42 000 inhabitants, comparable in size to Québec City or Toronto at that time.” 150 years later, Saint John…
Continue ReadingThe mother of all incentives
The National Post is reporting today that the Federal and Quebec governments are about to provide $750-million to backstop Bombardier Inc.’s development of its new super-sized series of jets. According to the article, the federal government has given Bombardier about…
Continue ReadingCake and eat it too
All I can say is that Atlantic Canadians are a different bunch. The Fraser Intitute recently did a survey of Canadians to assess their beliefs on a variety of issues. As expected, Albertans were for less government, lower taxes, more…
Continue ReadingFrancis McGuire still gets it
After six years in the private sector, it seems that former New Brunswick Deputy Minister of Economic Development Francis McGuire still understands the core of the issue. He was just named among the Top 50 CEOs in Atlantic Canada. In…
Continue ReadingMisplaced Outrage
Bennet Environmental is in the news again. It looks like the environmentalists will get their wish. The company will not set up in Belledune. And the four or five other firms lined up to create jobs up there are also…
Continue ReadingA tad simplistic
I got an anonymous email regarding my last post stating that my solution for rural development was ‘a tad simplistic, don’t ya think?’. A tad simplistic. Simplistic. Isn’t that exactly the point. All your experts talking about incubation, innovation, acceleration,…
Continue ReadingCBC’s annual phone in on rural development
I won’t be able to hear the CBC Maritime Noon phone in on ‘what it would take to drive rural economic development’ this Friday. This seems to be an annual Maritime Noon topic and when I have heard it, there…
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