Sitemap - 2021 - It's the Economy, Stupid!

What's up with young adults in New Brunswick?

Nova Scotia and its great big audacious population growth target

Pay attention: mRNA vaccine production on PEI is a game changer

Dealing with another kind of supply chain challenge

What should we do with downtowns? Double down.

The energy sector transformation: New Brunswick will need sharp elbows

Job vacancy spike: Ephemeral or structural

At the end of the day, even for immigrants it is about the jobs

As NB companies become more global, I still hope for a little home team bias

It'll take more than Ghostbusters to reinvent the Alberta economy

On airport consolidation, think very carefully

Successful economic development: Don't move away from outcomes measurement

The Moncton Miracle: Redux

I demand a referendum on CEWS payments!

Youngsters or old-timers? Who is moving to New Brunswick?

Do you know the way to Belleisle Bay?

Should tourism be a focus of post-pandemic growth?

Comin' back up the road? Ontario moves east.

Female immigrant entrepreneurs in Canada

BioNB: The next 25

Data and statistics: Objectivity versus selling the soap

The Freedom 55 hangover continues...

Journalistic malfeasance when writing about statistics

Property tax assessment windfall should lead to lower tax rates

A lighthouse strategy for economic development

A golden era for Chambers and industry groups?

Diane Francis needs to rethink her position on immigration

Your community's talent pipeline = growth potential

We should still means test income support programs

Grannies and grampies getting the Big Stamp?

The Greatest New Brunswicker (s)?

Where are the Mad Men (and Mad Women)?

New Brunswick needs growth industries

Don't go home.

When it comes to the costs of addressing our climate change commitments, give it to the people straight

Bad rap: Musings on government directed culture

Freddy Beach all growed up and now sitting at the big kids table

Volunteering: The secret sauce for inclusive communities?

Latest job vacancy data points to interesting trends across NB

A stronger First Nations partnership

Are hordes of people moving to New Brunswick?

The Alice in Wonderland world of Employment Insurance

Items #1 and #2 on your council agenda should be....

It's time to get serious about rural population attraction

The rise of the micro-entrepreneur

Boeing gambles Atl. Canadians can't do basic math

Comin' back up the road: Blip or trend?

It's time for a bold New Brunswick housing strategy.

Polling: Asking questions without consequences

How do like them apples?

Don't be distracted by the unemployment rate

Solving the tricky bits of workforce demand

The ghost of economic development past

Deliberately bring K-12 schools downtown, please

Immigration is too important not to talk about

Don Dennison and New Brunswick’s great projet de société

Does rural Atl. Canada have high unemployment?

The pandemic has been good to Atl. Canada’s Gotham

Engineering economic development (or not)

Is having democratic, local government in NB too much to ask for?

Atlantic Canada's Lord Voldemort

Evolving the Growing Pains podcast

On housing, don't look to Ontario

How did I miss this? How did you?

Avoiding economic development nihilism

Top down or bottom up?

The cool kids are all over on Substack

Economic development in Atlantic Canada