Archive for August, 2006

Grappling with rural economic development in New Brunswick

Friday, August 25th, 2006 Posted in Economy | No Comments »

In one grand sweep of the election wand, Bernard Lord and Shawn Graham have transformed themselves into the twin Merlins of rural economic development. Each has committed vast sums over the ... Read more..

Agricultural innovation, alive and well in N.S.

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Business | No Comments »

Derek Anderson, president and C.E.O. of the Atlantic Poultry Research Institute, is a genial, self-assuming scholar with timing of a stand-up comic. “We look at developing healthier alternatives to traditional ... Read more..

It’s official folks. The silly season has begun

Friday, August 18th, 2006 Posted in Economy, Humour | No Comments »

You know you’ve hit the silly season in all its goofy glory when the idea of sending tourists into low earth orbit from a launch pad in Cape Breton actually ... Read more..

Peter Mesheau served New Brunswick with distinction

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »

Moments after MLA and former Business New Brunswick honcho Peter Mesheau announced last Thursday that (to the astonishment of exactly no one) he was leaving provincial office, his former boss ... Read more..

Why industrial regional benefits are not so much “pork”

Friday, August 11th, 2006 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »

By invoking national security as justification for circumventing his own private sector contracting provisions, Stephen Harper has found himself in the exquisitely awkward position of having done the wrong thing ... Read more..

Here comes the election. What, me worry?

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »

The newest scourge of modern life is a crippling affliction whose symptoms include blurred vision, excessive mumbling, and uncontrollable shrugging in the face of imminent peril. I call it “Internetitus” ... Read more..

It’s time to renew economic development

Friday, August 4th, 2006 Posted in Economy | No Comments »

Nothing builds confidence in our nation’s productivity quite like the spectacle of federal census takers doing what they do best – namely annoy the rest of us. But you might want ... Read more..