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Posted 12 April 2023 | Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs

Andrea Feunekes’ N.B. Company Has Helped Drive Global Innovation For 30 Years

https://media.transistor.fm/5799a479/62b5a09a.mp3 This week on Insights, Don and David have a conversation with Andrea Feunekes, the president, CEO and co-founder of Remsoft Inc., a global software company based in Fredericton. Andrea is also the chair of the New Brunswick Business Council....

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Posted 5 April 2023 | Airports, Business Leaders, Transportation

How Joyce Carter Plans To Save Air Travel In The Maritimes

https://media.transistor.fm/47be3948/bdc8239b.mp3 After the federal government privatized national airports in the 1990s, most underwent massive modernization. There is no better example than the Halifax Stanfield International Airport. The Halifax International Airport Authority (HIAA) has...

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Posted 22 March 2023 | Business Leaders, Manufacturing

Andrew Oland on Moosehead’s ‘Export or Die’ Strategy

https://media.transistor.fm/2b53f5eb/f168d270.mp3 Moosehead Breweries is a New Brunswick icon. The company has been in business for more than 150 years and is described as “the last major brewery in Canada still owned by Canadians.” With annual sales of $200 million and a staff of nearly...

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Posted 1 March 2023 | Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Forestry, Natural Resources

Northern New Brunswick’s Titan of Forestry: Jean-Claude Savoie

https://media.transistor.fm/4f260edd/4a04820e.mp3 Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick-based Groupe Savoie is a thriving forest products business with sawmills, pallet production facilities, a pellet manufacturing plant, and other operations across the Maritimes. The company is one of the largest...

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Posted 15 February 2023 | Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneur Fighting To Dismantle P.E.I.’s Development Roadblocks

https://media.transistor.fm/09902cca/68f9b598.mp3 Tim Banks may not be well-known beyond Prince Edward Island, but he is among Atlantic Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs. His business, APM MacLean, is involved with real estate development, with annual revenues of more than $100 million....

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Posted 8 February 2023 | Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Fishery, Natural Resources

Colin MacDonald: The Unheralded Co-Founder Of Clearwater Foods

https://media.transistor.fm/a5f550ba/0330d77c.mp3 It’s hard to think of Clearwater Foods without conjuring to mind John Risley. But while Risley was the public face of the company, his former brother-in-law, Colin MacDonald, was not only the co-founder of the company but responsible for...

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Posted 25 January 2023 | Business Leaders, Mining, Natural Resources

Matthew Allas On A $10-Billion Opportunity To Mine Manganese In New Brunswick

David Campbell and Don Mills continue a series of interviews with leaders in the region’s mining sector. They are joined by Matthew Allas, President and CEO of the Canadian Manganese Company, to talk about a large deposit of manganese located in the Woods

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Posted 7 December 2022 | Business Leaders, Green Energy, SMRs

How Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Can Help Us Hit Net-Zero Emissions

On this week’s Insights podcast, we speak with Bill Labbe, President & CEO of ARC Canada, about his company’s development of an advanced small modular reactor (aSMR) in New Brunswick and about the role of nuclear energy in meeting Canada’s commitment

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Posted 23 November 2022 | Business Leaders

Black Business Initiative A Model Of Success

Don Mills and David Campbell talk with Rustum Southwell, the founding CEO of the Black Business Initiative (BBI) which has developed a national reputation for its work with the black business community and has expanded its mandate to serve all of Atlantic

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Posted 10 November 2022 | Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs

Don Mills On Building Communities Through Business And Volunteerism

In this week’s episode, we turn the microphone around. Don Mills was recently inducted into the Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame – an honour he received because of his successful business career where he built a firm with more than 600 employees and his

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