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NB Budget: Full Circle

My tenth year doing this feature!

NB Budget 2023: Healthcare Redux

Our provincial net debt in New Brunswick is now smaller than the size of the annual budget.

NB Budget 2022: Staying Healthy

New Brunswick would appear to be in a very reasonable neighbourhood when it comes to several healthcare metrics (per capita): spending, acute care beds, hospitals, and physicians. So why does the system feel so strained?

Confederation's Widening Gyre

This is a short post to check in on an issue I wrote about a year and a half ago. In my review [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2020-is-demographics-destiny/] of the New Brunswick provincial budget in 2020, I discussed Equalization payments and linked to a manifesto against them that some Albertans

NB Budget 2019 - We've got the power?

I've written an analysis of the New Brunswick provincial budget for the [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2015-by-the-numbers/] past [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2016-in-context/] four [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2017-looking-local/] years [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2018-getting-educated/] now. As always, my goal is to focus on the facts more than

The John A. MacDonald Effect

I don't usually blog about politics (and don't plan to make a habit of it), but I have some genuine concerns I wanted to share about systematic weaknesses around building infrastructure in Canada. All of this is just my opinion, of course. In the past year

Waifs of the Tide

Some poetry, some history, and some Maritime scenery. At the end of September, I took a detour to Grand Pré [https://www.google.com/maps/@45.1196064,-64.3270018,5125m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en] after a weekend in Halifax. The landscape there is a UNESCO [https://danbscott.ghost.io/

Ottawa Museum Crawl

At the end of last week, I had a business meeting in the Ottawa area. I decided to stay for the weekend since it was a good opportunity to visit our nation's capital during Canada's 150th [https://danbscott.ghost.io/150th/] anniversary. On Saturday, I went

Outdoor Adventures

Chignecto

My apologies for not having any posts for a couple of weeks. Summer is winding down here and I've been trying to make the most of it. This weekend and last weekend, I was at a couple of different spots along the Bay of Fundy coast. Below, I

2 Lakes

I was on vacation last week, hence not having a post. To start with, I went to Nova Scotia for the weekend to attend a wedding; after that, I flew to Ontario for a week. Below are some pictures and a brief description of some of the things that I

A Golden Age for Canadian Sci-Fi

I've noticed that some shows I've been watching on Space [http://www.space.ca/] have been filmed/produced in Canada, which seemed like an interesting topic for a short post (which is in order after the lengthy one from last week [https://danbscott.ghost.io/50-shades-of-monks/

Cartier, Champlain, Laval, ...

In my previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/les-villes-de-lhiver/], I mentioned that I'd share some of what I learned about the history of New France on my brief trip to Québec and Montréal a couple of weeks ago (supplemented with some Wikipedia reading). That's what you&