Archive - Side Walks

Saint John's Long Game Pays Off

A $247-million bet, two national rail lines and a surge in Ontario trade are writing a new chapter for Canada's original Port City

May 7 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦

April 2026

What New Brunswick Can Learn from Europe’s Energy Moment

What a view from the Port of Antwerp reveals about urgency, pragmatism, and the opportunity across the Atlantic

Apr 28 • Michelle Robichaud

Programming Note: On Vacation

Gina is in Hong Kong and I'm on a cross-Canada road trip

Apr 27 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦

Buying Time or Buying Change?

New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces are increasing public debt to pay for public services on the promise of future earnings. Here's…

Apr 14 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦

Why Deficits Carry More Risk in Atlantic Canada

With large provincial deficits on the books from B.C to Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada’s smaller, aging economies, are being tested faster – and with…

Apr 8 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦

Welcome to 'Be Giant'

My story 'Inside Canada's race for space sovereignty' about Atlantic Canada's new space sector is the lead story for a new national publication about…

Apr 2 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦

March 2026

New Brunswick is Moving Cervical Cancer Screening Home

With $5 million for at‑home screening in the 2026-27 budget, the province joins a national push to eliminate a disease that hits rural and low‑income…

Mar 31 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦

The Investment That Worked: Part 2 - From Last to First

How Kent county and southeastern New Brunswick went from last in Canada to helping pay the province's bills

Mar 26 • J. Louis Leger

A Region That Can’t Get Its (Many) Acts Together

Fragmented rules, political resets, and slow permitting have created a region where capital comes to look but rarely stays to build

Mar 24 • Gina Miller

The Investment That Worked – Part 1: The People Who Built It

How Acadians Built What We Were Told We Could Not Have

Mar 20 • J. Louis Leger

No People, No Money

New Brunswick’s soft economy made it reliant on federal transfers. Now, slower population gains threaten to reduce those transfers and widen a deficit…

Mar 18 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦

River Watch Opens Into the Storm

BOOK EXCERPT: The Wolostoq/St. John River is hard to predict and our development choices don't make it easier

Mar 12 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦

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