OVERALL OBJECTIVE—TO FIND WAYS AND MEANS TO IMPROVE THE PROVINCE’S FISCAL SUSTAINABLE AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL NEW BRUNSWICKERS It’s been quite a time in the history of mankind and planet Earth. The enemy is a virus that resulted in tragedy and suffering for millions of people around the world. The cost will […]
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The World’s Leading Education Systems Are Responding
New Brunswick’s green paper on education stated, “Schools alone cannot meet the needs of industry nor match the pace of growth and change. Simply adding and installing infrastructure in schools will not respond to this need.” This was a call to action for business, industry, and community leaders to partner with education in extending our […]
New Brunswick Education Is Out Of Sync With Societal Changing Economy
People are our most important natural resource. This is a belief that is often lost in natural resource-based economies like New Brunswick’s, where logging, mining, blueberries and transfer payments rule. Fast-paced innovation and advancements in science and technology have resulted in a global shift to a knowledge-based economy, and we now have a disconnect between […]
Visions And Goals Of Health Care Reform For New Brunswick
It is easy to write lofty words about the systemic problems within the current health care system, but not so easy to come up with pragmatic solutions. One of the problems in discussing and implementing reform is that we tend to get caught up in the weeds. When and if that happens, we start spinning […]
Health Care System Improvements Are Essential
At no time have the challenges for health care been so striking. The Coalition of Concerned Citizens sees this as a time when New Brunswick must face these pressing problems. Health and Long Term Care constitutes nearly 40% of the province’s annual budget, or $3.6 billion dollars. The high and rising cost of this complex […]