Monday, May 6, 2013 - 8:42pm
| By ROGER TAYLOR Business Columnist
The Halifax economy is performing well and the population is growing, but a Conference Board of Canada study suggests the story is different in the rest of the province.
New Glasgow, the board says, still hasn’t fully recovered from the 2008... Read More
Monday, May 6, 2013 - 8:06pm
| By PETER MOREIRA | Entrevestor
TitanFile Inc., the developer of a secure collaboration and document-sharing system, has unveiled new features for its product, including the TitanFile Secure Deposit Box, which makes it even easier and safer for clients to receive communications. Read More
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 7:04pm
| By ROGER TAYLOR Business Columnist
The buildup to the $25-billion shipbuilding project at the Halifax Shipyard is starting to show just how confusing the Nova Scotia labour market is these days.
There are examples of tradespeople who have returned home from Alberta, thinking there... Read More
Q: I’m an 83-year-old man with a registered retirement income fund at an insurance company maturing in a couple of years. Can you please tell me what choices I have at maturation date?
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Friday, May 3, 2013 - 5:00pm
| By PETER MOREIRA | Entrevestor
Best known for its real estate website TxT2look, the team at Halifax Citrus Mobile Solutions is staffing up for a range of projects for clients and looking for that “holy-grail” product that will make its name.
The team is headed by... Read More
On Thursday, Nova Scotia Power Inc. filed a 10-year load forecast with the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board.
It states that if Port Hawkesbury Paper LP shuts down in 2019 after its cheap tariff expires, the energy load for the... Read More
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 7:54pm
| By ROGER TAYLOR Business Columnist
Downtown Halifax seems to be experiencing a bad case of empty building syndrome.
That isn’t an official diagnosis, but some property owners seem to have decided it is better to leave their building empty in the hope that someday soon they... Read More
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 5:34pm
| By PETER MOREIRA | Entrevestor
Jevon MacDonald’s tremendous speech to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday night was the third reminder I had seen in a week that Atlantic Canada needs to develop the technology community. Read More
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 7:24pm
| By ROGER TAYLOR Business Columnist
There won’t be a Yarmouth ferry this summer, but there’s still time for the NDP government to do the right thing for some small businesses in southwestern Nova Scotia. Read More
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 8:42pm
| ROGER TAYLOR Business Columnist
It’s a little more difficult to determine just how hot the summer job market will be this year.
Government jobs have often played a significant role in employing students for the summer, especially in Halifax, but there might be a bit less... Read More
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 4:42pm
| By PETER MOREIRA | Entrevestor
Saar Fabrikant is careful in describing B4Checkin Ltd.’s revenue growth, but he makes it clear that the picture is rosy.
Fabrikant is the president and chief executive officer of the Halifax company, which has developed a suite of cloud-... Read More
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 8:26pm
| By PETER MOREIRA | Entrevestor
Peter Gifford may have trouble finding a place to launch the working prototype of his new offshore supply vessel, even though it’s only nine metres long.
The problem: it’s 16 metres deep — same height as, for instance, an IMAX... Read More
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 7:20pm
| By RACHEL BRIGHTON
Dressed in my comfortable, cheap, blue-and-white striped top bearing a Joe Fresh label, I read the news about the dead and injured garment workers in Dhaka with a sick feeling inside. Read More
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 6:44pm
| By ROGER TAYLOR | Business Columnist
Nova Scotia is in desperate need to overhaul the way provincial energy decisions are made.
On Friday, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board approved Nova Scotia Power Inc.’s plan to spend $93 million on its share of the South Canoe wind... Read More
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 6:00pm
| KEITH DICKER GUEST COLUMNIST
Regardless of the outcome, Sept. 22, 2013, will be a big day for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition. Since 2005, Merkel has led the government and arguably has become the single most important glob of glue holding the eurozone... Read More