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Invest Nova Scotia Plan to Help Businesses Grow
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Posted 29 August 2024 | Business Leaders

Invest Nova Scotia Plan to Help Businesses Grow

https://media.transistor.fm/1554da7b/3d632c1f.mp3 Our latest Insights Podcast features a conversation with Peter MacAskill, the CEO of Invest Nova Scotia. Invest Nova Scotia is the new provincial agency that emerged from the merger of Innovacorp and Nova Scotia Business Inc. Our conversation...

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Life outside of McCain Foods with Scott McCain-Part II
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Posted 22 August 2024 | Business Leaders

Life outside of McCain Foods with Scott McCain-Part II

https://media.transistor.fm/80fc1ad5/ea2d13ab.mp3 In Part II of our Insights Podcast with Scott McCain, the Chair of the Board of McCain Foods, we focus on his own businesses including his ownership of the Saint John Sea Dogs, a twenty-year labour of love, and his involvement in Seafort Capital...

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How Big is McCain Foods?  A conversation with Scott McCain
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Posted 15 August 2024 | Business Leaders

How Big is McCain Foods? A conversation with Scott McCain

https://media.transistor.fm/4bc0d1ee/7747878c.mp3 Our guest this week on the Insights Podcast is the affable Scott McCain, the Chair of the Board of McCain Foods, the largest potato processing company in the world. This is first part of a two-part podcast which focuses on the McCain story, how...

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Ryan Albright, Founder and CEO of Covered Bridge Potato Chips…building the next McCain foods?
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Posted 9 August 2024 | Business Leaders

Ryan Albright, Founder and CEO of Covered Bridge Potato Chips…building the next McCain foods?

https://media.transistor.fm/abed10c2/133fbccc.mp3 On the Insights podcast this week, Don and David talk with Ryan Albright, Founder and CEO of the Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company.  After a tragic fire in March 2024, the company is rebuilding bigger and better.  In Hartland, New Brunswick,...

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Fred Bergman, Senior Policy Analyst at the Atlantic Economic Council on the economic impact of indigenous business
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Posted 1 August 2024 | Think Tanks

Fred Bergman, Senior Policy Analyst at the Atlantic Economic Council on the economic impact of indigenous business

https://media.transistor.fm/4f07a5c8/3dc20555.mp3 Fred Bergman, Senior Policy Analyst at the Atlantic Economic Council joins us today on the Insights podcast to talk about an important new report written by the organization.   The report provides an assessment of the economic impacts of...

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Travis McDonough on making it big in tech supporting MLB, NBA, NHL among others from Atlantic Canada
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Posted 25 July 2024 | Biosciences

Travis McDonough on making it big in tech supporting MLB, NBA, NHL among others from Atlantic Canada

https://media.transistor.fm/a6cc7019/69b3c79b.mp3 Travis McDonough may not be widely known in Atlantic Canada but he is very well known by the MLB, NBA, CFL, MLS, NHL and NFL and many of their leading star players. Travis and his partners developed Halifax-based Kinduct, a tech application that...

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Peter Moreira reviews the findings in the latest Atlantic Canada Startup Report
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Posted 18 July 2024 | Accelerators, Entrepreneurs, Incubators, Start-ups

Peter Moreira reviews the findings in the latest Atlantic Canada Startup Report

https://media.transistor.fm/8b344d9f/3499e7b5.mp3 This week on the Insights podcast, Don and David speak with Peter Moreira about the 2023 Atlantic Canada Startup Data Report.  Peter’s firm, Entrevestor, publishes this report each year covering more than 800 tech-based locally-owned...

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Half year review, an optimistic conversation reviewing successes and challenges in Atlantic Canada
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Posted 12 July 2024 | Thought Leaders

Half year review, an optimistic conversation reviewing successes and challenges in Atlantic Canada

https://media.transistor.fm/0370dd65/a62be9fb.mp3 Don and David join Shelley Snodgrass, VP of Sales at Acadia Broadcasting, to review the highlights and learnings from their guests over the last 6 months.  It is an optimistic discussion about the opportunities and successes happening in Atlantic...

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Executive Director at the McKenna Institute working to transform NB through digital technology
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Posted 4 July 2024 | Business Leaders, Post-Secondary

Executive Director at the McKenna Institute working to transform NB through digital technology

https://media.transistor.fm/c30980be/0d2ed04c.mp3 On this week’s Insights, Don and David talk with Adrienne Oldford, Executive Director at the McKenna Institute.  Almost 30 years ago, then Premier Frank McKenna had a vision for what was called the ‘information superhighway’ and how it could...

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Blair Hyslop, Co-CEO of Mrs. Dunster’s on developing food manufacturing in New Brunswick
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Posted 27 June 2024 | Business Leaders

Blair Hyslop, Co-CEO of Mrs. Dunster’s on developing food manufacturing in New Brunswick

https://media.transistor.fm/8196b979/c1644767.mp3 On this week’s Insights, Don and David talk with Blair Hyslop, Co-CEO, Mrs. Dunster’s about the opportunities to develop food manufacturing in New Brunswick. Blair shares his journey building the company from a staff of 50 to more than 270, the...

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