You often hear people say education is the key to success, and a recent study is backing up that statement.
The
report analyzing data from four Atlantic Canadian community colleges
revealing for every dollar a student puts into college, they get four
dollars back in higher future earnings.
New
Brunswick Community College President Marilyn Luscombe tells us
they looked at the impact of student productivity including how much
savings are generated.
She says
there's a strong correlation between having a post-secondary education
and the reduction in social spending on health care, the criminal
justice system and income assistance.
The study also showing Atlantic colleges inject about $4.7-billion of income into the economy every year. Click here to see the full report, released by the Atlantic Provinces Community College Consortium.
A not-so-sweet season so far for the province's maple syrup producers.
Yvon
Poitras of the New Brunswick Maple Syrup Association tells us the
season usually begins in mid-March, however it's been at a standstill
because everything is frozen up and not moving due to the long, cold
winter we've had here in the province.
The sap
will flow when the weather is around five degrees during the day and
minus five at night, and though they've lost some time, Poitras says
they are hoping for a late season this year.
A typical maple syrup season is from four to eight weeks.
Over 50
millimeters of rain could fall over Charlotte County and surrounding areas
from now until Monday evening, as a low pressure system sweeps through
the province.
Environment
Canada issuing rain and freezing rain warnings for the area and
meteorologist Stephen Hatt tells us stormy conditions will
continue until approximately mid-week. He says the storm system will
start to pull away on Tuesday, but we will still be seeing some flurries
from the system during that day.
The
freezing rain is going to continue for the rest of the day, and will
change to rain this evening and overnight. That will turn back to
freezing rain and ice pellets during the day tomorrow according to Hatt.
The Fredericton area is under snowfall and winter storm warnings with up to 40 centimetres of snow expected.
The New
Brunswick economy is headed in the wrong direction......That's what the
Provincial Liberal Party's policy forum at U-N-B Saint John on urban
economic development was told by Larry Hachey, former President of the
Saint John Board of Trade.
Hachey tells us when it comes to growing the provincial economy and
creating jobs, it's time provincial governments stopped trying to hit
what he calls "home runs" with big job announcements when 80 per cent of
the job growth in New Brunswick comes from small companies.
He says
we need a Premier to be market driven, who looks at possibilities. The
policy forum was also told New Brunswick needs a culture change where we
start selling ourselves better to outsiders and stop selling ourselves
short.
Hachey
says the province should be aggressively attempting to attract business
immigrants who will set up shop here and we need to be looking at best
economic practices from elsewhere.
If the
provincial economy and how to turn it around is going to be the big
issue in the next provincial election, some people might find it odd
that the Liberal party's policy forum on urban economic development in Saint John was
held without Provincial Party Leader Brian Gallant.
Instead,
Dieppe Centre M-L-A Roger Melanson served as co-chair and tells us Gallant will be well informed of what was said and the ideas that
were put forward.
Melanson
says one idea that stuck out for him was the need to ditch short term
solutions to spur growth and come up with a long term economic plan that
would span from 10 to 15 years.
A rollover on Highway 1 sending the driver to hospital.
Platoon
Chief Barry Oickle of the Saint John Fire Department says the incident
happened westbound, near exit 128 just before 6:30 this morning.
When
emergency crews arrived at the scene, they found the vehicle on its side
and a man trapped inside, and they had to cut off the roof in order to
rescue him.
His injuries are not thought to be serious.
