Posts Tagged: Prince Edward Island
Island liquor stores plan to bring in alcohol experts. • It shouldn't be hard to become an expert on their massive selection of 7-10 beers. • Hey Alan, can you get a consulting job with them and teach them what good beer actually is? Then encourage them to actually sell it?
Posted by on Friday, September 18, 2009 in - 1 comment
Hurricane Bill Maritimes Update
Posted by on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 in - leave a comment
Don't start panicking. Despite what some local news organizations are reporting (they've since changed their headline) Bill is still over 3,000 kilometres away and is not yet a real or significant threat to the Maritime Provinces. • Forecasting is 80% science, 15% art, and 5% luck. When the …
Short Sighted Industry Development
Posted by on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 in - 3 comments
From the CBC comes the report that PEI is now in a battle with Nova Scotia over a 23 person game development shop that is currently located in Charlottetown. • I'll sum up the situation for you. The province of Prince Edward Island offered a sweet deal 18-24 months ago for this company to come … read more »
Would I Have Taken The Money?
Posted by on Monday, April 6, 2009 in - leave a comment
I'm often, given my role, the mouthpiece for silverorange. We've been criticized before for being Borg like in our mindsets and our thinking. Mots of the time it's true. When it comes to the Immigrant Investment program we weren't that perfect unified group. • As I mentioned before …
Immigrant Ivestment Crooks
Posted by on Monday, April 6, 2009 in - 2 comments
I've been saying it all along: investigate the brokers. Well now it's finally happening and it is horrendous. It may or may not be criminal but it is definitely wrong on many levels. • CBC finally posted a story on the agents/brokers and their involvement in the dealings. The only numbers you …
30 Day Nature Challenge: Day 7
Posted by on Monday, February 9, 2009 in - leave a comment
Another day another snowshoe outing. I can't seem to get enough of this spot and the sport. Today I ventured out in the bitter cold and wind to see what I could find. I started from the usual spot and quickly found a new bit of woods that had small interconnected meadows that would make a … read more »
30 Day Nature Challenge: Day 6
Posted by on Sunday, February 8, 2009 in - leave a comment
In case you didn't gather from yesterday's post, I really enjoyed snowshoeing. So today I went back out. • I ventured out from the same starting point as yesterday. I think I may make this area a place I get to intimately know. It's very tranquil and has a great line separating industrial from …
Islander Day and Whining Businesses
Posted by on Thursday, February 5, 2009 in - 5 comments
Today a local news organization is reporting that most Island business organizations are not in support of the holiday as it is too costly to them. Their logic is: • “"The average GDP for P.E.I. in a day is a little over $12 million. That's roughly what the productivity cost is." - Erin …
OpenCorporations.org – Closed Forever
Posted by on Thursday, December 11, 2008 in - 47 comments
The government of Prince Edward Island has put a captcha in place on their corporations database search. This is in reaction to Peter’s effort to make the data contained within more useful. • I don’t need to point out how ridiculously knee-jerked of a reaction putting a captcha on a search is …
More immigrant investor program investigations. Excellent. Remember to start with the brokers
Posted by on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 in - leave a comment
