Canada: Benefits for New Brunswick from a Potential Canada-EU Trade Agreement

An ambitious trade agreement with the European Union would be of significant benefit to Canada, resulting in a 20-percent boost in bilateral trade and a $12-billion increase in Canada’s annual income (gross domestic product).

That translates to an increase of $1,000 to the average Canadian family’s income, or 80,000 new Canadian jobs—which is like adding the number of jobs currently in the city of Moncton to the Canadian economy.

Many of New Brunswick’s key sectors would benefit from an ambitious Canada-EU trade agreement:
Read more: Benefits for New Brunswick of a Potential Canada-EU Trade Agreement.

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ChronicleHerald.ca Now, America is everyone’s promised land - by Jim Meek

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Now, America is everyone’s promised land - by Jim Meek

A century ago, most of the summer people traveled here ( Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia) from south of the border. This week, all eyes were looking southward. How could any nation, even a wildly unpredictable one like the United States, produce a Sarah Palin and a Barack Obama in the same election campaign? In response to the crisis, Obama may well attempt to emulate one of his heroes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who regulated the financial and banking industries during the Depression. With Roosevelt and Lincoln as his presidential ancestors, Obama has steep monuments to climb. And as if that doesn’t make his job tough enough, he also has to carry the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali. At least that’s my crackpot theory.