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Old Posted Feb 19, 2020, 5:55 PM
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Minimum wage is going up to $11.70 in NB April 1st.
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Minimum wage is going up to $11.70 in NB April 1st.
PEI's Rate goes to $12.85 per hour April 1, 2020
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PEI's Rate goes to $12.85 per hour April 1, 2020
Nova Scotia's is going to $12.55/hour at the same time.

On another note PEI is increasing it's legal tobacco age to 21 and limiting sales of vape products. Nova Scotia is banning vape flavours. Is New Brunswick planning any changes like these?
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Rough unemployment numbers for NB but all things considered, not too bad. We're still pretty close to the national average, and we're better than the numbers coming from the south.

The fact we're going to start reopening will certainly start helping the numbers too. We won't be at pre-COVID levels for a long time, but every business open, every person working, is another step back towards normal.
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I thought this comparison was interesting:



Personally, I think the bulk of the difference between these two neighbouring jurisdictions is that once you get south of Portland in Maine, you are starting to get into the orbit of Greater Boston, which is one of the hardest hit cities in the US by the COVID-19 pandemic. I imagine if you could subtract this area from the remainder of the state, the differences wouldn't be nearly as dramatic..........
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Personally, I think the bulk of the difference between these two neighbouring jurisdictions is that once you get south of Portland in Maine, you are starting to get into the orbit of Greater Boston, which is one of the hardest hit cities in the US by the COVID-19 pandemic. I imagine if you could subtract this area from the remainder of the state, the differences wouldn't be nearly as dramatic..........
An even more shocking comparison would be New Brunswick and New Hampshire. New Hampshire has a similar population to Maine but over 3000 total cases. It is certainly also heavily influenced by it's proximity to Boston.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...cases.amp.html

Vermont has had 921 cases total and over 50 deaths. Population wise Vermont probably most closely matches NB's demographics but got hit far harder.

https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Wh...568630341.html
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Personally, I think the bulk of the difference between these two neighbouring jurisdictions is that once you get south of Portland in Maine, you are starting to get into the orbit of Greater Boston, which is one of the hardest hit cities in the US by the COVID-19 pandemic. I imagine if you could subtract this area from the remainder of the state, the differences wouldn't be nearly as dramatic..........
Direct comparison may not be valid. I agree with you re the Boston connection but also have to consider number of tests. I would think that the more you test the more cases you will discover. Last I heard that NB was near the bottom re tests per capita
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The number of cases is one factor; but the bigger factor is the number of hospitalizations and number of deaths; both of which are almost impossible to misscount. And in those numbers, New Brunswick is clearly ahead of the curve.
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Those biggest city numbers are always rich. Portland might appear smaller on this graphic but the Portland metro is over 500K.
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Those biggest city numbers are always rich. Portland might appear smaller on this graphic but the Portland metro is over 500K.
Indeed. I didn't editorialize, but the City of Moncton is about 71,000, not 85,000. This means that Moncton is still a bit larger than Portland, but as you pointed out, the Portland metro area is larger than the Moncton CMA (~155,000). It should be noted however that the term MSA (metropolitan statistical area) is not entirely comparable to the term CMA used in Canada. If you were to consider the Moncton region in a similar manner, it would include all of Westmorland, Kent and Albert counties, and would total nearly 240,000 people (Portland MSA = 514,000).
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Indeed. I didn't editorialize, but the City of Moncton is about 71,000, not 85,000. This means that Moncton is still a bit larger than Portland, but as you pointed out, the Portland metro area is larger than the Moncton CMA (~155,000). It should be noted however that the term MSA (metropolitan statistical area) is not entirely comparable to the term CMA used in Canada. If you were to consider the Moncton region in a similar manner, it would include all of Westmorland, Kent and Albert counties, and would total nearly 240,000 people (Portland MSA = 514,000).
Downtown Portland is only 3-4 km away from woods and fields, yet the Portland metro covers a big chunk of Maine including a number of well-defined separate towns. In one of the American metro types, Portland is considered a part of metro Boston. By American standards, countries like the Netherlands would just be considered a metro area.
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Construction investment up in March on P.E.I. despite pandemic

P.E.I. had the biggest increase in construction investment in the country, up 9.9 per cent in March. It was the only province to post an increase in non-residential construction investment, up 1.4 per cent......

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/princ...ium%3Dsharebar
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Good to see Halifax kicking some ass.

Note that this is city population growth, not metropolitan population growth. In Halifax's case, this is pretty much the same thing............

Also very interesting to see how dominant Canadian cities are in this ranking, which is just a testament to the fact that population growth in the USA is very much more a suburban and exurban phenomenon.
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Yes, this compares the Halifax Regional Municipality to the City of Atlanta for example, which has about 500,000 people and is only 10% or less of the metro.

Next census the Halifax CMA will apparently grow a bit beyond the bounds of HRM with the addition of East Hants, where about half of workers are commuters. The true commutershed extends a bit into Hants, Kings, and Lunenburg counties while the HRM extends beyond the commutershed on the Eastern Shore side (which is very sparsely populated; the eastern 2/3 of the HRM land area gets 1 council seat). The Halifax CMA may hit 500,000 in only a few years.

There's something to be said for municipality size and tax base. In the case of Halifax the municipality and tax base are now larger than some fairly large American cities such as Cleveland or Buffalo. But the city council doesn't tend to be very ambitious.
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There's something to be said for municipality size and tax base. In the case of Halifax the municipality and tax base are now larger than some fairly large American cities such as Cleveland or Buffalo. But the city council doesn't tend to be very ambitious.
There are certainly pros and cons to regional, amalgamated governments. With larger structures you get more sway, more power, and presumably more funding, but the downside of this is giving non-urban voters and councillors more power to quash things in the city, and vice-versa. We see this in Ottawa and Toronto fairly regularly, and Halifax to an extent I would imagine.

The flipside is having a smaller city with more focused and determined power without direct influence from the suburbs. The problem with these setups, though, is that the city can be cutoff from much needed funding and support (Saint John, effectively).

There's something to be said for larger regional plans and something to be said for more focused urban planning.
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During normal times I do not get to excited about unemployment percentages, but it is nice to see somethings trending towards a more healthy place.

Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets):

Newfoundland and Labrador 16.5 per cent (16.3)
Prince Edward Island 15.2 per cent (13.9)
Nova Scotia 13.0 per cent (13.6)
New Brunswick 9.9 per cent (12.8)
Quebec 10.7 per cent (13.7)
Ontario 12.2 per cent (13.6)
Manitoba 10.1 per cent (11.2)
Saskatchewan 11.6 per cent (12.5)
Alberta 15.5 per cent (15.5)
British Columbia 13.0 per cent (13.4)

CMAs (other than Freddy)

St. John's, N.L. 11.6 per cent (10.5)
Halifax 11.9 per cent (10.5)
Moncton, N.B. 9.1 per cent (8.8)
Saint John, N.B. 11.5 per cent (11.1)

These were taken from https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/busine...alls-1.5018613

Here is an article with jobs added in June (or perhaps you could say returned)

PEI-1,700
NL-6,000
NB- 29,000
NS- 22,000

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-b...irus-1.5644693

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There's something to be said for larger regional plans and something to be said for more focused urban planning.
It is all about allocating decision making appropriately. Just as how some decisions should be federal while others should be provincial.

In Halifax some decision-making is done at a sub-municipal level. For example, there are community councils and councillors get discretionary funding to spend within their districts. Regional council does not make all decisions.

For regional planning exercises like the sewage treatment of the early 2000's or the more recent $750M transit strategy, it is much better to be able to make the decisions in a regional council type setting.
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Moncton is apparently the strongest job market in the country during the pandemic.

Obviously a blip due to extraneous factors (COVID), but we should enjoy this while it lasts.
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Office Vacancy Down In Fredericton and Saint John, But Up In Region Overall

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"Though the full impact of Covid-19 on the region’s rental office market has yet to be seen, there are some early indicators that recent downward trends in vacancy are starting to reverse.The survey found that overall, office vacancy rates were up year-over-year in four of the six major cities in Atlantic Canada and warehouse vacancies were up in half of them. Most of the changes have been relatively minor thus far. Movement in average net rental rates for office space was divided, with three of the six office markets seeing a decline and three an increase; average warehouse rents were up almost across the board, and holding steady elsewhere."
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- Fredericton = 5.55%, (down from 8.04% a year ago).
Class A vacancy rate = 3.80%, (down from 3.92% in 2019).

- Saint John = 16.47%, (down from 18.26% a year ago).
Class A vacancy rate = 15.55%.

Meanwhile, the other major Atlantic Canadian Cities saw an uptick in vacancies.

- Charlottetown = 8.35%,(up from 7.27% the same time last year).
Class A vacancy rate= 7.73%, (up from 6.70% a year ago).

- Moncton = 12.92%, (up from 7.68% a year ago).
Class A vacancy rate = 5.34%, (up from 3.98% in 2019).

- Halifax = 14.91%, (up from 14.80%).
Class A vacancy rate = 16.95%, (up from 16.50%).

- St. John’s, Newfoundland = 19.89%, (up from 17.18% a year ago).
Class A vacancy rate = 28.27%, (up from 20.33% in 2019).



The survey also looked at office rental rates.

The Atlantic Canadian office market was split between ups and downs in average rents over the period June 2019 to June 2020.


- St. John’s, NL = has the highest average net rental rate, at $18.19/ft², (despite dropping 4.9% from $19.13/ft² a year ago).
Class A net rents = 22.08/ft² (from $23.48/ft² over the same period).

- Halifax = the overall average net rental rate up 2%, to $14.30/ft² (from $14.02/ft²).
Class A rents = $17.78/ft² (up from $17.21/ft²),

- Fredericton = overall average net rental rate edged down to $13.79/ft² (from $13.84/ft²),
Class A rents = $15.27/ft² (up from $15.31/ft² a year ago).

- Moncton = overall net rent moved to $13.01/ft² (from $12.84/ft²),
Class A rents = $14.24/ft² (from $14.05/ft²).

- Saint John = fell 1.4% overall to $12.76/ft² (from $12.94/ft²),
Class A rents = $14.86/ft² (from $15.83/ft²).

- Charlottetown = overall average net rents moved up 1.4% to $15.53/ft² (from $15.32/ft² in 2019),
Class A rents = $15.96/ft² (from $15.92/ft²).

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