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10 Books Before '20

At the start of September, a friend on Facebook issued a challenge to read 10 books before the end of the year. I decided to share the brief reviews I wrote here. The rules allowed for books you were in the middle of when the challenge was issued, so the

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One Week Later

My apologies for not having a post last week. My job is very busy these days, and on top of that I was on the road last week. I've got some good ideas to write about before the end of the year—hopefully I can find the time. This week's

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Economic Development Ideas for NB

For this week's post, I wanted to share some ideas about economic development in New Brunswick. Most of them are things I've discussed on Facebook before, and I doubt any of these ideas are original—I just think they're worth promoting. Four Ideas Immigration For a variety of reasons, there

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Sim City's Laffer Curve

This post is something I originally wrote for a Facebook note a few years ago, but I'm planning to do more to explore economic concepts in video games. Introduction I dug out an old computer game recenty (i.e. before I originally wrote this note), Sim City 2000. Although it's

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Marq de Villiers' lecture at UNB

For World Water Day / Canada Water Week 2014, I decided to repost these lecture notes from a couple of years ago (originally shared on Facebook). Introduction On 15 March 2012, I went to a public lecture at the University of New Brunswick by author/journalist Marq de Villiers. The lecture

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The Long March of the NB 104th

This note was originally posted on Facebook for Remembrance Day 2012. It is about a story from Canadian military history that I find quite inspiring. These soldiers started their march 101 years ago this week. The 104th Regiment As I understand it, most of the regular forces on the Canadian

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The World By Numbers

Although my statistics skills are stronger now and I probably would do some things differently now, I still like this analysis I did back in 2010 on some publically-available data on countries around the world. I wrote it on Facebook then a former classmate from UNB who works in the