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Business of the Month Club – February 2012
Get Cre8iv! Mount Pearl design studio dedicated todelivering affordable marketing solutions If there’s such a thing as corporate neutrality, Tina Thistle and Sherrie Wilkins — owners of Cre8iv Design Studio — have it. Whether you’re a large-scale enterprise or a small home-based business; whether you have 500 employees or just one; whether you want a full corporate brochure or something …Continue Reading
Business of the Month Club – January 2012
What’s really holding you back? MLJ Coaching International and its founder, Lynne Jacob, are working to help you achieve all your life goals – personally and professionally Lynne Jacob started MLJ Coaching International by virtue of the fact that there wasn’t really anyone around to hire her — she’s a tradeswoman, she says, like an electrician or a plumber. Instead …Continue Reading
Atlantic Canada’s Top Employers 2012
An Atlantic Business Magazine exclusive, presented in partnership with Mediacorp With all the talk of a double-dip recession and slow economic growth, you might be excused for thinking that employers had gone back to the old days when just having a job was enough for most folks. But the 2012 winners of the fourth-annual Atlantic Canada’s Top Employers competition show …Continue Reading
Web Extra: Full transcript with Canada’s Irish Tiger, Loyola Hearn
Atlantic Business Magazine editor Dawn Chafe interviews Loyola Hearn, Canada’s ambassador to Ireland I’ve never been to Ireland. Can you give me some idea of what I make expect if I were to visit? You’ve never been to Ireland, eh? This past two weeks, we have at least five groups from Newfoundland. Most of them will drop by the embassy …Continue Reading
In the fiscal crosshairs
Avuncular in manner, consultative in political style, New Brunswick Premier David Alward knows his province is facing one of the most serious money meltdowns in its history. With a long-term debt approaching $10 billion, rolling annual deficits exceeding $500 million, and a population base insufficient to cover the costs, this first-term leader has “quandary” written all over his competing agendas. …Continue Reading
Upfront
Plate expectations N.B. asked citizens to suggest taglines for licence plates; here’s what they said When the Progressive Conservative government took power in New Brunswick just over a year ago, it had a lot on its plate. Or plates, as it turned out. Last March, the David Alward administration announced it would phase out use of the “Be… in this …Continue Reading
To split or not to split?
Background: This editorial on the potential de-amalgamation of HRM into rural and urban parts was instigated by off-the-record discussions with several prominent residents of HRM as well as a September 1, 2011 press release from Corporate Research Associates (view press release). According to CRA, residents do indeed support the division of the municipality. The next step was to interview a …Continue Reading
2011 CSR Awards
Welcome to the first of what we promise to make an annual event: a made-in-Atlantic Canada awards program that recognizes regional companies and organizations making exceptional efforts towards corporate social responsibility and sustainable prosperity. It’s important to stress that there are no “giveaways” in these awards. As a baseline, nominees—particularly the large, complex organizations — were expected to have good …Continue Reading
N.S. Special Report: Welcome to Halifax
By sea and by air, Nova Scotia’s capital is the entry point for millions of visitors each year. Here’s the breakdown of those numbers. Airport Passengers The number of enplaned and deplaned passengers at Halifax Stanfield International Airport has risen by nearly 18 per cent over the past decade, to a near-record high exceeding 3.5 million. The Halifax airport is …Continue Reading
The Mathis connection
As the founding executive director of the G. Wallace F. McCain Institute for Business Leadership at the University of New Brunswick, Nancy Mathis argues that keeping entrepreneurs connected to one another is a key factor of long term business success in the region. To this end, she directs the energies of the institute she leads with the kind of up-close-and-personal …Continue Reading
