by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/c1014ff6/f52129c4.mp3 On this week’s Insights podcast, Don and David speak with Andrew MacLean, the author of Backyard History, a podcast, blog and newspaper column covering interesting stories from across the Maritimes. Since much of Backyard History is about...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/e06b844d/f4bb20fc.mp3 The Spatz Family Story Behind Southwest Properties One of the real privileges attached to doing the Insights Podcast is to learn the back story behind some of the region’s most successful entrepreneurs. This is the case with the Spatz...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/ff3ed242/12c79326.mp3 Jim Irving, co-CEO of JD Irving, Limited, joins Don and David on the Insights podcast this week to talk about the forest products sector, the new forestry plan for New Brunswick and the realities of competing in a highly contested global market...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/968738b7/189c9da6.mp3 New Brunswick is in the middle of an unprecedented population growth trend. This is leading to record employment but also to growing job vacancies. Statistics Canada’s Job Vacancy Survey shows nearly 50% more job vacancies in the second quarter...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/ba6e8521/f911650a.mp3 In recent months a number of food and consumer products companies have announced they are pulling well known products out of Canada including Kleenex, Skippy peanut butter, Delissio, Stouffer’s and Lean Cuisine. In addition, there have been...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/351b5ab6/46110242.mp3 John Risley of Mahone Bay is one of Nova Scotia’s most successful businessmen. This week we revisit a conversation John had with Don and David about building and selling Clearwater Seafoods and some interesting thoughts on public policy...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/188e9d72/9b2f7cae.mp3 Killam Properties is A Real Estate Powerhouse Since its founding in 2000, Killam Properties, headquartered in Halifax, has become one of Canada’s largest landlords and Atlantic Canada’s largest landlord. The company has $5 billion...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/df81bd83/0265efa3.mp3 Mass Timber Can Shorten Construction Times Significantly In this episode of the Insights Podcast , we examine a new initiative under development to build the first mass timber manufacturing plant in Atlantic Canada, led by Patrick Crabbe, the...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/57787e05/83da8a09.mp3 On this week’s Insights podcast, Don and David are starting a series on the forest products sector in Atlantic Canada. The region’s forests support thousands of good paying jobs and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue for...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/fc75e9f0/8fc1176c.mp3 Between 1983 and 2004, the value of exports (in inflation adjusted dollars) from Atlantic Canada increased by an average of nearly five per cent per year. Over the same 20+ year timeframe, the economy expanded by an average of 2.6 per cent per...
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