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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…
 • 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
 • 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
 • Gina Miller
The Investment That Worked – Part 1: The People Who Built It
How Acadians Built What We Were Told We Could Not Have
 • 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…
 • 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
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
The Investability Hump
The Atlantic Economic Panel has heard Atlantic Canada has talent and ambition, but inconsistent regulation, outdated perceptions, and weak social…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦
Nature Is the New Asset Class and Atlantic Canada Is Leaving Billions on the Table
New Brunswick's Cassidy Lake is the warning and Nova Scotia's EverWind is the proof that institutional capital will invest in natural assets – or leave…
 • Gina Miller
Caught in the Undertow of a New Age
We can’t talk our way through this transition. To thrive in the knowledge age, we must rethink how we create value, build trust and lead inside the…
 • Lisa Hrabluk 🇨🇦

February 2026

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