by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/ad092f56/4dc95727.mp3 The decision to appoint someone outside the healthcare community to lead the NS Health Authority was met with considerable scepticism across the healthcare sector in Nova Scotia, yet that was exactly what the doctor ordered to introduce a series...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/7f2fd67e/6862d116.mp3 Atlantic Canada Can Become an Energy Superpower A new report called “Catching the Wind” from the Public Policy Forum outlines how Atlantic Canada can become an energy superpower by harnessing offshore wind. On this episode of the...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/cc9187da/f2933513.mp3 On this week’s podcast we talk to the CEO of one of Atlantic Canada’s oldest family run companies, Crosby Foods. Founded in the late 19th Century as an importer of molasses from the Carribean, Crosby’s continues to be a family...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/e38a3567/65bf3296.mp3 Medavie, A Company Changing Health Delivery In Canada Medavie is a company that few in this region would be familiar with, although a third of Atlantic Canadians are covered through benefit programs with Blue Cross which, along with Medavie...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/1bca9018/8bb92779.mp3 Wine Industry Growing in Size and Reputable in Nova Scotia This week’s Insights Podcast features an in depth look at the growing wine industry in Nova Scotia which has become important both economically and from a tourism attraction...
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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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