The government announced its new and anticipated export strategy this week and I wrote some thoughts about it in my Telegraph-Journal column this morning. I awoke to an email criticizing my views and suggesting that I don’t understand the purpose…
Continue ReadingNew myths and new myth makers
Below is my TJ column from earlier this week. I have been really struggling to craft a coherent position on EI reform. One the one hand, I was calling for a similar type of reform that is now in place. …
Continue ReadingHugo’s New Brunswick Legacy
I see Hugo Chavez passed away. Someone, somewhere is concocting a conspiracy theory. The Americans must have done it. Anyway, I suspect most New Brunswickers have forgot about Hugo’s gift to New Brunswick back early in his reign. He cancelled…
Continue ReadingICYMI: The demise of New Brunswick’s Mad Men (and women)
I’m not sure why this bugs me so much but it does. I really dislike the fact that New Brunswick’s advertising and PR business is so piddly compared to everywhere else in Canada. Below is a recent column I wrote…
Continue ReadingICYMI: Not your father’s Fredericton
From a recent TJ column: If I asked you to give a thumbnail sketch of the Fredericton economy, you might be tempted to say it is “a government town”. While public administration remains a vital part of the regional economy…
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