Aerospace on PEI

This is kind of interesting.  File it under taking sector development seriously (cluster development): Grade 11 students at Three Oaks, Kensington and Kinkora Regional high schools near Summerside, PEI will be able to register for the Aviation-Aerospace Academy Diploma program.…

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28,076

From 1981 to 2008, this is the net loss of people aged 18-24.  Specifically it is the total number of net people in that age group that left the province over the 27 year period.  Assuming those folks earned the…

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A bilingual society

This is a good step. http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/edu/2010e0804ed.htm We talk about a bilingual society and then spend almost all our time and effort keeping French and English apart. Our schools, media, cultural instututions, and just about everything else is either English or…

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NB in 2050

The subject of my column today in the TJ.   I find predictions of the future fascinating because they are almost never right.  I heard a guy over the weekend on a Big Ideas podcast saying that the UN population forecasts…

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Riddle me this

We have a paradox on our hands. The Canadian Learning Index used by Macleans magazine to tell us what places are smart and dumb is saying New Brunswick has the lowest percentage of household with access to broadband. The NB…

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