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B. Corp Status Fuels Ethical Swag

  • Jun 16, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Cape Breton–based sustainable promotional products company Ethical Swag is navigating the current economic chaos through the B-Corp certified systems it already had in place.

The Sydney company helps organizations make their values visible through

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Toward Prosperity Sets Out New Economic Plan

  • Jun 16, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

For the first two-thirds of Toward Prosperity, the reader could be forgiven for thinking they’d picked up the wrong book.

In the title, this superb new analysis of the Atlantic Canadian economy by economist David Campbell and retired pollster Don

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Mobile App Brings Bloomsday to Halifax

  • Jun 12, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

This Saturday through Monday, Haligonians can experience 1904 Dublin and 2025 Halifax in an app-based self-guided tour of the novel Ulysses. Billed as part literary excursion, part scavenger hunt, and part pub crawl, the app is the work of Andrew

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Halifax Will Host 2026 Annual Invest Canada Conference

  • Jun 12, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

The Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) has announced that Halifax will host the 2026 edition of its annual conference, Invest Canada, from May 26 to 28.

New Brunswick Innovation Foundation CEO Jeff White, who was

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DeNova To Lead $7.2M Aquaculture Feed Project

  • Jun 11, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based DeNova, which makes sustainable feed ingredients for aquaculture, will lead a $7.2 million Microbial Protein for Sustainable Aquaculture Project outlined this week by Canada’s Ocean Supercluster.

The project was the largest of five

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Dal Innovates Announces Teams for Summer Accelerator

  • Jun 11, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

A total of 20 student teams will take part in Dal Innovates’ Lab2Market Launch and Collide Launch summer accelerator programs.

Comprising 33 students and recent graduates from 10 post-secondary institutions, the students will develop their ventures

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Nditive Eyes Product Launch in 2026

  • Jun 10, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Having graduated from the most recent cohort of the Techstars Sustainability Paris Accelerator, the team at St. John’s-based Nditive is setting its sights on launching their gas monitoring product in 2026.

Founded by Dr. Salar Salahi and Dr. Seyed

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Essential Recruit Rebrands to Focus on Rural Resilience

  • Jun 09, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

New Glasgow, NS-based Essential Recruit, now known as Judy Intelligence, has secured $600,000 in federal funding to lead a two-year pilot test of its AI-powered workplace development platform that helps employers and communities find, attract, and

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Founders, Investors Present at Tribe

  • Jun 08, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Four startups led by underrepresented founders presented at an event at Tribe on Friday, telling their stories of resilience and rising sales to a group of community members.

Tribe, which supports BIPOC entrepreneurs and members of other

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Elle, MD Biotechnologies Wins NBIF Contest

  • Jun 05, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Jennifer Johnston, Founder of Elle, MD Biotechnologies, has won this year’s Fueling Female Founders Pitch Competition run by Fredericton-based New Brunswick Innovation Foundation.

Johnston is a family physician and assistant professor at Dalhousie

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Aurea’s Shine Turbine Wins 2025 HardTech Award

  • Jun 05, 2025
  • Carol Moreira

Dartmouth-based Aurea Technologies has won a 2025 HardTech Award for its portable Shine Turbine. The recognition comes from Vancouver-based MistyWest, a product development firm focused on sustainability.

Aurea, which has just celebrated eight

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3DBioFibR closes $3M Funding Round

  • Jun 04, 2025
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based natural materials company 3DBioFibR has closed a $3 million funding round to help it to scale up its manufacturing capacity to meet soaring demand for next-generation biomaterials.

The company issued a statement Tuesday saying the

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