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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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/cc79b1ce/b49ade22.mp3 This week on the Insights podcast, Don interviews David about a recent report he wrote about housing demand in New Brunswick. Commissioned by the New Brunswick Business Council, the report looks at housing demand by region across New Brunswick...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/b51e2a54/d8282369.mp3 One of Canada’s most thoughtful analysts of politics and economic development, Donald Savoie, has written a new book entitled “Canada: Beyond Grudges, Grievances and Disunity”. In the book, Savoie chronicles Canada’s history of ‘victimhood’...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/0845375f/30dc7813.mp3 Today on the Insights podcast, Don and David talk with economist Richard Saillant about the federal Equalization program. There has been a lot of talk about Equalization including efforts in western Canada to eliminate or significantly downsize...
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by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/350bbf0a/2b100c47.mp3 Bear Head Energy has just received environmental approval for 2 gigawatts of electrolyzer capacity that will be developed in phases and require 400 onshore and offshore wind turbines to produce green ammonia and hydrogen for export. The Bear Head...
READ MORE by adminhttps://media.transistor.fm/9d8699c6/a2bc047f.mp3 Saint Mary’s University was just ranked third in the mainly undergraduate university community in Canada by Maclean’s magazine. It joins the perennially number-one-ranked Mount Allison at the top of the list. Once thought of more as a...
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