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Jennifer LaPlante Talks About the Emerging Role of AI within Atlantic Canada
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Posted 3 April 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Jennifer LaPlante Talks About the Emerging Role of AI within Atlantic Canada

https://media.transistor.fm/261b9893/b456262f.mp3 Many people would be familiar with the ChatGPT app as a tool for research purposes and composition. But the use of artificial intelligence is much more complicated and sophisticated than that. For example, do you know the difference between...

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Australian Mining Company Pulls Plug on Nova Scotia
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Posted 27 March 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Australian Mining Company Pulls Plug on Nova Scotia

https://media.transistor.fm/f43d8a67/ab3b1715.mp3 If Nova Scotia wasn’t already considered one of the most difficult jurisdictions to conduct business in the mining sector, the province’s reputation will not be improved by Australian based mining company, St. Barbara Limited’s...

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Yarmouth making ambulances for the King of Jordan?
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Posted 20 March 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Yarmouth making ambulances for the King of Jordan?

https://media.transistor.fm/2c54a008/6367b415.mp3 It may surprise many that Tri-Star Industries, founded by Keith Condon in 1973, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia have sold their customized ambulances to 46 foreign companies. Tri-Star has also supplied all the ambulances in Nova Scotia under a lease...

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Could the tariffs be an opportunity for Canada?
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Posted 13 March 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Could the tariffs be an opportunity for Canada?

https://media.transistor.fm/7ddc2922/0e8db0c2.mp3 On this week’s Insights podcast, Don and David are talking trade and tariffs with Dr. Herb Emery from the University of New Brunswick.  What will be the impacts specifically in our region?  How many jobs are at risk? What industries?  We spent a...

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Seafarmers Conference Podcast
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Posted 6 March 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Seafarmers Conference Podcast

https://media.transistor.fm/96c219f6/83789773.mp3  At the recent 2025 Seafarmers Conference sponsored by the Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia, Don Mills and Bill Lahey, the President of King’s College were the kick-off panel keynote speakers focused on the challenges and...

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Patrick Sullivan Leads the Biggest Chamber of Commerce in Atlantic Canada
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Posted 27 February 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Patrick Sullivan Leads the Biggest Chamber of Commerce in Atlantic Canada

https://media.transistor.fm/308eb7f0/1805a86d.mp3 Our guest on this episode of the Insights Podcast is Patrick Sullivan, the CEO of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce. The Halifax Chamber has nearly 2,000 members who employ 90,000 workers in the Greater Halifax Area. The Chamber is focussed on...

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Despite its Critics, the Halifax Convention Centre Has Been a Game Changer
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Posted 20 February 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Despite its Critics, the Halifax Convention Centre Has Been a Game Changer

https://media.transistor.fm/776fbe93/64568751.mp3 Our guest on this episode of the Insights Podcast is Carrie Cussons, the CEO of Events East, the special purpose government agency partnership between the Province of Nova Scotia and the Halifax Regional Municipality responsible for managing both...

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Mersey Seafoods Has Quietly Emerged as a Major Seafood Company
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Posted 13 February 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Mersey Seafoods Has Quietly Emerged as a Major Seafood Company

https://media.transistor.fm/369647f1/b3bc7307.mp3 On this episode of the Insights Podcast, our guest is Greg Simpson, the President & CEO of Liverpool, NS-based Mersey Seafoods, a company most would know very little about. Mersey Seafoods was founded in 1964 by a dentist, Dr. Bill Murphy and...

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Leading with empowerment: Premier Holt’s first 100 days
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Posted 6 February 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Leading with empowerment: Premier Holt’s first 100 days

https://media.transistor.fm/241ea0d3/4138483a.mp3 New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt joined Don and David on the Insights podcast this week. She is the province’s 35th premier and, while only been on the job for three months, is already facing an unexpected challenge, the threat of a prolonged...

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Building Momentum for Life Sciences and the Bioeconomy in Nova Scotia
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Posted 30 January 2025 | Atlantic Canada, Business, Economic Growth, Economy, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Public Policy

Building Momentum for Life Sciences and the Bioeconomy in Nova Scotia

https://media.transistor.fm/348330aa/d9f4f032.mp3 Vision 2025 was an event held last week at the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub focussed on the growing opportunities for the life sciences and bio-science sector in Nova Scotia and featured presentations from four companies in this space...

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