by Lisa Hrabluk | Oct 18, 2013
My friend Bojan Fürst read the post about the New Brunswick government’s public consultation on migration and was moved to finally write about his family’s time in Bathurst and Saint John. It is quite simply the most powerful piece of writing I have read...
by Lisa Hrabluk | Oct 17, 2013
Cruise on in, cruise on out: Today thousands sail into Saint John harbour to visit for the day; it’s been over 100 years since that many people walked off a boat and decided to stay for a lifetime. The last significant immigration to New Brunswick was the 1840s,...
by Lisa Hrabluk | Sep 18, 2013
Why do people leave the Maritimes? Are they pushed out or pulled? That’s the question Michael Haan, a straight-talking demographer at the University of New Brunswick wants to answer. Michael studies migration patterns in the Maritimes, which means he...
by Lisa Hrabluk | Sep 13, 2013
Let’s have some fun with numbers with one of my favourite academics, the University of New Brunswick’s Michael Haan. Michael is the Canada Research Chair in Population and Social Policy and earlier this year he gave a 10-minute presentation about the...
by Lisa Hrabluk | Sep 12, 2013
The year 2017 could be a big one in the Maritimes. It’s Canada’s 150th anniversary – and it’s also the year the Echo generation’s average age reaches 28. That’s how old most of us are when we start thinking about where we want to settle...
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