What is there to cheer in these grim days of public debt, political mismanagement and boundless, bureaucratic mediocrity, when opportunity taps at the doors of vacant homes and offices before it moves on to other, more promising pastures?
Still, if New Brunswick, whose population barely surpasses Mississauga's, authors its own misfortune with depressing reliability, it also manages to occasionally and pleasantly surprise, as it did yesterday when UNB unveiled its plans for a new innovation and entrepreneurship facility.
The Pond-Deshpande Centre (named for businessmen Gerry Pond and Gururaj Deshpande, whose gift makes the scheme possible) is modeled on a program Mr. Deshpande, a UNB alumnus, financed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002. It has reportedly supported more than 90 technology projects and helped start 26 businesses that employ more than 400 people.
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