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Articles by Alec Bruce
ABM Contributing Editor Alec Bruce is one of Atlantic Canada’s most-read, most-esteemed journalists. He’s held senior staff positions at the Globe and Mail (national, city and business sections), Report on Business magazine, the Financial Times of Canada, and Commercial News magazine. Alec won the Gold Award for “Commentary – Any Medium” in the 2008 Atlantic Journalism Awards, and a Top-Ten Honourable Mention for “Feature Writing” in the 2009 international TABPI Awards. He won two back-to-back Silver Awards for “Best Magazine” articles in the 2007 Atlantic Journalism Awards, and the Gold Award for “Commentary” in the 2006 Atlantic Journalism Awards. In 2006, he was a finalist in the Kenneth R. Wilson National Business Writing Awards.
Reimagining the Leadership Principle
We embrace the words as the faithful do their relics: with devotion, hope and a flawed understanding of their meaning. Indeed, “The Leadership Principle” appears everywhere in the capitalist code of conduct, ready to bestow boons if only we believe in their mystical power to change our uncompetitive ways.
Those who we imagine have been touched[.....]
Wising up to our energy future
Alec Bruce argues for power to move energy agenda in Winner Takes All
Power Play
First-term New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham is determined to save his people from certain financial ruin. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is determined to stop a deal that could savagely curtail his province’s access to the lucrative energy markets of the American Northeast. When it comes to energy politics, all bets are off.
Out in the Cold?
For generations, northern New Brunswick has suffered the indignities of rural desolation: shuttered mills, outmigration among the young, and ageing population…
A tantalizing tale of four New Brunswick cities
Whether it’s Moncton the “smart”, or Saint John the “energetic”, or Fredericton the “wise”, or Miramichi the “hopeful”, New Brunswick’s metropolitan areas are proving that they have the right stuff to compete in a global, knowledge-loving world.
Brother, can you spare some transformational change?
Three years ago, New Brunswick’s Liberal Premier Shawn Graham was elected on a platform of “self-sufficiency”…
Is this Atlantic Canada’s year of living boldly?
It was the year of living fearfully; a year when nothing seemed to make sense and those we trusted most with our money had become, as if by conjurer’s trick, liars and frauds. It was the year of living angrily; a year when we blamed the banks, the credit card companies and the media for[.....]
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