A global pandemic impacts everything we do as economic developers – but it could be argued that downtowns have been impacted the most. In this episode of Insight, we'll take a look at the purpose and practice of downtown revitalization from bot

Episode 4: Business Retention & Expansion

May 27th, 2020 19m 20s

Right now, the first priority is to keep the ship from sinking. Economic developers across the country have been scrambling to decipher what exactly we can do to help our businesses survive this crisis.But this pandemic won't last forever. To

Episode 3: Economic Development During COVID-19

Apr 13th, 2020 19m 38s

“For the first time in history, every economic developer is facing the same challenge.”The world has been collectively dealing with a crisis that none of us were truly prepared for. We've deliberately shut down major segments of our economy in

Episode 2: The Zamboni Episode

Mar 18th, 2020 19m 20s

If the local economy is a game of hockey, economic developers aren’t the players. We are not offence, defence, nor goalies, and we certainly aren’t the team manager, coach or referee. We’re the Zamboni.In our second episode, the MDB Insight te

Episode 1: EcDev Origin Stories

Feb 4th, 2020 20m 28s

How do people get into economic development? In our first episode, the MDB Insight team and host Natasha Gaudio Harrison travel to Edmonton, Alberta for the Economic Developers Association of Canada Conference, taking the opportunity to ask th

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