Commentary on Business, Politics and Culture in Atlantic Canada
On this episode, I’m delighted to sit down with one of Canada’s best editorial cartoonists, Bruce MacKinnon... Bruce has been nominated eight times for a National Newspaper Award (NNA), winning five times. He also received the NNA inaugural Journalist of the Year award for 2014. Among many other honours, Bruce has also been awarded 17 …
This was a question some of us were mulling over on election night. The ambitious and dedicated folks at community radio station CIOE in Lower Sackville asked me to moderate their coverage on election night with a panel comprised of broadcasting legend Al Hollingsworth, former NDP MLA Michele Raymond and former Nova Scotia finance minister and …
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On this episode, the Commander of Maritime Forces Atlantic and Joint Task Force Atlantic, Rear-Admiral John Newton, retired. Rear-Admiral Newton began his career in the Navy in 1983, after trying his hand as a geologist out west. He completed tours with the destroyer HMCS Iroquois, HMCS Preserver, and HMCS Montreal gaining a speciality in Canadian …
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Lisa Drader-Murphy is marking a milestone — 20 years of breaking barriers in fashion designs. Starting out with an investment of $250, the business has remained debt-free and without investors running entirely on retained earnings. President and owner of the Lisa Drader-Murphy collection, including the Turbine label. She now owns five boutiques across Canada, her own Shopping Channel …
For people of my vintage, Steve Martin turned comedy on its ear. I was reminded this week of one of Martin’s best film moments from The Jerk when the new phone book arrives. Earlier this week the new Halifax Index was released from the Halifax Partnership. Yay. For most, it might seem a little dry, …
Today on Fall Back Up, I'm delighted to welcome Nova Scotia artists Allan Bateman and Holly Carr Holly Carr is nationally renowned for her colourful and whimsical silk painting and public installations. She not only exhibits her work throughout Canada and designed for theatre, more recently Holly has branched out into performance art, painting in …
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I'm delighted this week to speak with Jean-Michel Blais, Chief of Halifax Regional Police. Chief Blais spent 25 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. During that time, he completed his first mission with the United Nations in Haiti as a civilian police officer and following his return, worked predominantly on organized motorcycle gangs and …
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Atlantic Canadian small business owners should start bracing themselves for the 15 dollar minimum wage campaign. The governments in Alberta and Ontario have both bought into the idea, and now British Columbia’s new 'GreeNDP' coalition is putting it on the table. It’s being driven principally by Canada’s largest labour unions and a coalition of the …
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In 1997 Brian Titus was in the Navy working as a diver in Halifax…but he had a passion for making beer. At the time, the craft brew market hadn’t washed up on the east coast and he saw an opportunity. Over the last 20 years, Garrison, along with Halifax’s other well-established brand Propeller, settled as …
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