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Upfront
Picture perfect N.L. tourism campaign features montages, homages and a slew of awards Pink gingham aprons and homemade quilts flapping on a line, waving welcome to a stiff onshore breeze. A child clattering a stick along the pickets of a winding fence just for the joy of making noise. An old man steering a dory through the moorings of a …Continue Reading
2012 Top 50 CEO Awards
By Alec Bruce & Dawn Chafe When Atlantic Business Magazine founded the Top 50 CEO awards 14 years ago, we had two goals. Our first and obvious objective was to recognize Atlantic Canada’s most accomplished and civic-minded business leaders – individuals who were growing their companies, their industries and their communities. Less apparent was our secondary purpose: by celebrating the …Continue Reading
Business of the Month Club – April 2012
Treading Carefully In the 33 years since it was founded, family-owned and operated Miller Tirecraft now has 13 locations throughout the Maritimes. The biggest challenge to realizing that growth? Convincing young people that tire installation and related maintenance could be an exciting career. Thanks to industry-leading HR practices that include handsome compensation packages and promotions from within, Miller Tirecraft continues …Continue Reading
Web Extra: Supply on demand
Rob Strong is a local long-time resource industry consultant who presented to the Hebron Project Review Commission in November 2011. In his submission, Strong commented on how the Hebron project can assist the local supply and service sector in accessing opportunities offered by ongoing resource developments, such as Hebron. Natural Resources Magazine spoke to Strong about his presentation and asked …Continue Reading
Business of the Month Club – March 2012
The fish thatalmost got away Acipenser Brevirostrum are long-lived, strong, and genetically diverse sturgeon, surviving across the millennia with amazing resilience. They are one of the most ancient groups of ray-finned fishes, with fossil evidence that places them on earth over 200 million years ago. The roe of the Acipenser Brevirostrum is usually a rich golden brown. Due to the …Continue Reading
The Town of Paradise
Paradise is recognized as being Atlantic Canada’s fastest growing municipality with the youngest average-aged population in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Located adjacent to the major centres in the Province, including the Capital City of St. John’s and neighbouring City of Mount Pearl, is just one of the many reasons that attribute to their rising popularity. They are on …Continue Reading
Hail Marystown
The Marystown shipyard used to be a busy place. Until the early ‘90s, it was constantly humming with workers in hard hats driving forklifts, towering cranes lifting and stacking huge containers, and massive ships being lifted high out of the water. This is what life used to look like at the shipyard. Today, though, workers are forced to live on …Continue Reading
Developments
Answering the call Play Fairway Analysis credited with $970-million offshore N.S. exploration commitment An almost $1-billion bid for offshore oil exploration rights in Nova Scotia has sparked hope the province’s stuttering industry could come to life. Shell Canada has agreed to pay $970 million for the rights to explore four offshore parcels over the next six to nine years. The …Continue Reading
Upfront
Storm surge National basketball league racking up brownie points in P.E.I. You hear it all the time from new entrepreneurs: there are a lot of hoops to jump through on the way to getting established. While Duncan Shaw and Darren MacKay haven’t had to literally jump through those hoops, their latest start-up is consumed with shooting for them. Shaw and …Continue Reading
Letters
Top employers fall flat I would like to comment on the Top Places to Work article that you printed last edition. My concern with your article stems from the differences between tax-funded companies and those that are not tax-funded, but tax-paying. My employees felt that four weeks vacation to start, and topped up pregnancy leaves, etc…, etc… were fabulous things …Continue Reading
