Atlantic Business Magazine Contributing Editor Alec Bruce is one of Atlantic Canada’s most-read, most-esteemed journalists. He’s held staff positions at the Globe and Mail (national, city and business sections), Report on Business magazine, the Financial Times of Canada, Commercial News magazine, and the Moncton Times & Transcript. Alec won the Gold award for "Best Regular Column" at the 2011 Tabbies International Editorial & Design Awards, and Gold awards for “Best Commentary” and “Best Magazine Article” at the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. Past awards include: (2010) Gold, "Regular Column" category, Tabbies; (2008) Gold, "Commentary" category, AJAs; (2006) Gold, "Commentary" category, AJAs; (2009) two Silvers in the "Magazine Article" and "Business Reporting" categories, AJAs; (2007) two Silvers, “Magazine Article” category, AJAs; (2009) Top-Ten Honourable Mention for “Feature Writing”, Tabbies; (2006) Top-Ten finalist, Kenneth R. Wilson National Business Writing Awards. Alec writes for newspapers, magazines and online publications in Canada, the United States and Europe.
Published: January 1st, 2010
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.
Published: January 1st, 2010
Three years ago, New Brunswick’s Liberal Premier Shawn Graham was elected on a platform of “self-sufficiency”…
Published: January 1st, 2010
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 the tsunami of greed and …Continue Reading
Published: November 22nd, 2009
The inside scoop on the Atlantica Party, a group that wants to merge the Atlantic provinces into a single political entity.
Published: November 22nd, 2009
Is social media marketing the next, big thing in advertising? Or is it a costly distraction from the business of selling real goods and services to real people? Does anyone know how to make this burgeoning communications platform pay? Some say they do; many have no idea. The rest of us get twittered.
Published: November 21st, 2009
Back-to-the-garden nitwits camouflage the possibilities of environmentally
sustainable economic development.