by Lisa Hrabluk | Sep 9, 2014
Last night a friend messaged me to ask if I knew the interest rate charged on the government debt. Ummm…not off the top of my head, but I love that he asked. He was doing his own research because he wants to understand New Brunswick’s fiscal...
by Lisa Hrabluk | Sep 2, 2014
Health care is the biggest expenditure in the New Brunswick budget, just as it is in all the other provinces. However beyond that big expense our understanding of where public funds are spent is kind of fuzzy. Are we short-changing municipalities? Do we spend too much...
by Lisa Hrabluk | Aug 27, 2014
We’re one week into the New Brunswick provincial election and we’re already in the hole. Debt. New Brunswick’s got a lot of it and it’s limiting our choices regarding what we want New Brunswick to become over the next four years. According to...
by Lisa Hrabluk | May 14, 2014
Fifteen New Brunswick high school students. Eight ideas. $15,000 in prizes. It all comes together on Friday May 16th at the Student Superpower Challenge pitch day, being held at Planet Hatch in Fredericton. Launched by T4G as part of February’s Big Data Congress...
by Lisa Hrabluk | May 6, 2014
Start-up Weekend New Brunswick held recently in Saint John is an island of optimism in New Brunswick’s sea of economic and political malaise. (photo: Michael Hawkins/Wicked Ideas) I am living a double life. For the past 18 months I have swum in the warm...
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