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ROGER TAYLOR: N.S. budget gets faint praise, coupled with criticism

Nova Scotia Finance Minister Labi Kousoulis seemed to leave business wondering if more could be done to assist struggling small and medium-sized operations, but for veteran observer Fred Bergman, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council senior policy → Read More

Survey shows support for building navy ships in Halifax

About 85 per cent of Nova Scotians offer high ratings on the importance of the Halifax Shipyard to the economy in the municipality, according to a survey. About 78 per cent felt similarly about the significance of the shipyard to the provincial → Read More

Reuben Hall takes over as sole owner of Halifax's MindSea

There has been a change in leadership at Halifax-based mobile application development agency, MindSea Development Inc. Reuben Hall, CEO of MindSea, announced on Monday that he has become sole owner of the company after Bill Wilson, official → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: N.S. to use interrupter for expected rise in gasoline prices Saturday

With neighbouring provinces increasing gasoline prices on Thursday by 4.8 cents a litre, Nova Scotia drivers were anticipating a similar increase when the provincial utility and review board set its price Friday. But there was a surprise for the → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: N.S businessman Leland makes high-profile acquisitions

Nova Scotia businessman Dean Leland is on a roll. On March 1, Leland, CEO and managing partner of Oceanstone Seaside Resort in Indian Harbour, bought out his partners, Tim and Lizzie Moore and Lizzie’s parents, Colin and Carol Dodds, to → Read More

New Superstore looks to tap growing customer base in Bedford

There is never a guarantee a new store will be a success, but it's likely the one opening Thursday in Bedford has a better chance than most. It is the first store to open in a new retail plaza on Hogan Court, but there is already anticipation → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: Mic Mac Mall's owner withdraws plan for housing project

Who could blame longtime residents of Halifax-Dartmouth for becoming disoriented by all the changes happening in the region? The population is growing, and a greater need for residential accommodations comes with that growth. Dartmouth Centre → Read More

Corporate backers set for the PIER at the Seaport

Transportation laboratory on Halifax waterfront to take former market site → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: Canadians satisfied with food supply chain

Who would have thought Prince Edward Islanders had greater confidence in Canada’s food supply during COVID-19 than most other Canadians? The fact that P.E.I., which goes by the Garden of the Gulf nickname and is marketed as Canada’s → Read More

Maritimers more concerned about retirement savings: report

Scotiabank’s retail investor sentiment report, released Monday, found that 91 per cent of Maritimers worry they aren’t saving enough for retirement, compared to 72 per cent of all Canadians having concerns about their retirement → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: Halifax port traffic down in 2020 but not as much as predicted

Last year was a difficult one for those in the shipping business, and the Port of Halifax was no exception. Lane Farguson, who speaks on behalf of the Halifax Port Authority, said 2020 was unlike any year experienced at the port. Container cargo → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: Conference Board of Canada a fan of Atlantic Bubble

Strategy, while it lasted, helped mitigate economic effects of COVID-19 → Read More

Dartmouth's Metamaterials appoints new CFO

The Chronicle Herald Dartmouth-based Metamaterial Inc., a developer of high-performance materials and nanocomposite products, has signed a definitive agreement that will lead to its merger with Torchlight Energy Resources Inc., a U.S.-based oil → Read More

Killam Apartment REIT reports steady performance despite pandemic

Halifax-based landlord generated net operating income of $43.4 million in the third quarter → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: Manulife calling employees back to the Halifax office

When COVID-19 arrived on Nova Scotia’s doorstep, it seemed to catch everyone off guard, including large organizations that usually plan for things like a global pandemic. It wasn’t long before the spread of the potentially deadly virus → Read More

NSLC records strong second-quarter profit and sales

The Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. reported a 5.4 per cent increase in earnings in the second quarter, to $77.8 million, on sales of $216.6 million. The provincially owned manager of liquor and cannabis sales in Nova Scotia indicated Tuesday that from → Read More

Dartmouth's Metamaterial prepares nanotechnology prototypes for U.S. military evaluation

Metamaterial Inc. of Dartmouth, a developer of high-performance functional materials and nanocomposites, says it has provided several unique nanotechnology prototypes that defog dive masks and gas masks to the United States military for → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: Halifax's Tenera Care peddles its technology in Ontario

Although it has been developed in Halifax, Tenera Care, a data analytics system for long-term care homes, seems to be finding greater acceptance outside Nova Scotia. Stewart Hardie, Tenera Care CEO, says acceptance of his company’s system → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: Armoyan engineers consolidation and split of same stock

It isn’t every day that shareholders of a company, especially one based in Nova Scotia, would vote to convert 1,000 shares to one, which would immediately be followed by splitting one share to 1,000 shares, but that is what happened this → Read More

ROGER TAYLOR: Halifax's new Sutton Place Hotel earns its stars

No one in their right mind would take their time building a luxury hotel if they knew a global pandemic was about to strike. The hospitality sector, after all, has been one of the hardest hit as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis, which was → Read More